Quote Originally Posted by MadDawg View Post
All by design. They believed as long as there was no "smoking gun" with a lot of ,000's behind it, they could do anything they wanted. I mean, who cares about a free meal or two or forty? And who cares if so-and-so recruit gets lodging for the night? I mean who could have a problem with that? I'll tell you who, everyone else that can't provide it because it's AGAINST THE RULES.
Well, they did pay players as well. Just, for whatever reason, much of that didn't make it into the NOA. AJ got 300K and Little was the largest financial transaction in recruiting history.