Nah they’ve got a church for that. If you believe the stories
There are churches like that everywhere. I first learned it from the last big Bama scandal, which centered around a DT named Albert Means from Memphis. My veterinarian at the time was a low level Bama booster who knew all the major players as far as SEC recruiters and boosters in TN.
The booster who took the fall in that case was a Bama guy named Logan Young, who later was found mysteriously dead, with no investigation following. What my Vet said when he told me the whole story, which came after a HS coach was fired, is that illegal recruiting in black areas is always run through churches, making the payments tax deductible. That church gets a cut for its work and then passes the rest on to the player's family and his HS coaches. One Memphis HS was linked to such pay for play for 8 or 10 players that signed with an SEC school (others also apparently got paid small amounts to sign by Memphis and even 1AA/FCS schools like Tennessee St and Jackson St). An honest assistant (Lynn Lang sounds familiar) at that Memphis HS school broke the code of silence after an honest black pastor told him that such illegal activity was treating minors with football/basketball skills as if they were commodities to be bought and sold - like slaves.
My Vet said that Means' family had collected money that way since he was a Soph in HS, from Tennessee boosters. It all hit the fan when Means signed with Bama, and then the word got out that Bama boosters had paid into the same system for Means, which meant Mean's family and HS HC got double payments. And that infuriated the Vols boosters, who called the SEC and NCAA offices and told on Bama for cheating, and then pulled every string they could to have TN newspapers cover Bama illegal recruiting in TN.
Allegedly, Vols boosters admitted to NCAA investigators that they participated in illegal payments, but because the player signed with Bama, Tennessee did not get probation. Kentucky got put on probation at the same time for payments to players at the same HS - TN also had paid for one of those UK signees and then when they lost him, the Viols squealed to the NCAA about that too.
Yes, I assume that Cam Newton's daddy is a preacher who takes the money and launders it. He was adept at the game long before Cam signed with Florida.
