Quote Originally Posted by MetEdDawg View Post
But to the original point, I just don't see any of the benefit of letting the whole process get out of hand. Do you get money on the side? Maybe if your kid is good enough. Is it enough to be life changing? For a lot probably not. So why take the risk? Not only does it affect the school and your kids eligibility if you get found out, but it damages your reputation as a parent and your kids reputation. No way I could put that on my kid.
I'd be tempted to see if I could get away with it. If I had a blue chipper (which won't be a problem for me for a number of reasons), my plan would be tell everyone involved that if anybody mentioned a thing about improper benefits to my son or around him, they are out of the running. Ask him to narrow his list down early to no more than two or three schools. Tell those schools I better not hear of them mentioning improper benefits to anybody, whether it by me son, my son's coach, or me. Pimp him out to every other school, asking for money to camp and whatever other upfront money I could squeeze out of them. Make sure he goes to the school of his choice, which has never offered to do anything impermissible. Tell every school that paid money that in actuality I didn't have any influence over my son like I thought and that I couldn't inform him of the payments without threatening his eligibility, and that if they want to get the NCAA to ask me, I will refund their money in full, with interest.

Still nowhere near being worth the potential shit storm, but I think you could get away with it. Probably clear $60k and hopefully spread it out over enough schools that nobody was mad enough to come after you.