Did the press smear Renardo Sidney?

by Paragon SC on Jul 7, 2009 3:49 PM PDT in USC Basketball Comment 4 comments

I am just throwing it out there...I will let you be the judge...

The attorney for Mississippi State signee Renardo Sidney and his parents says meetings with the NCAA on Monday and Tuesday were "productive."

The Sidneys met with NCAA investigators at the Montgomery, Ala., offices of attorney Don Jackson, answered questions about their finances and are now returning to Los Angeles.

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Jackson is even more confident now that the Sidneys have done nothing wrong. He said most of the NCAA's questions had to do with stories in the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. The family disputes allegations of wrongdoing and has turned over financial records to the NCAA.

"(The NCAA) may not be in full agreement, but both of those articles turned out to be sensationalistic garbage," Jackson said.

I guess anything is possible...

We have, of course, all heard the rumors. I would not expect Sidney's attorney to say anything to put is client in a bad light but he isn't going to put out this sort of statement before the NCAA makes their ruling. I mean why piss on a snake?

What I find interesting is if the Sidney's say the reports are false and can back it up will the NCAA then go to the LAT and WaPo to ask them for their sources to clarify the accusations. I doubt the NCAA will get anywhere there but it couldn't hurt.

Anyway, he is in the past but I did find it interesting...

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that the LAT and WAPO don’t have the unimpeachable credentials and professional integrity of Yahoo! Sports and the Internets.

by Locoweed 1.1 on Jul 7, 2009 5:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yahoo Sports = Sensationalistic Garbage

by DFWTrojan on Jul 8, 2009 8:47 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I think the Sidney's are not on the up and up

If they handle the money carefully, as in cash, and everyone keeps their mouths shut, then good luck trying to find dirt on them.

The only reason we know about Bush and Mayo was the statements of a couple of their guys in their own inner circles. Without Lake and Johnson, no one ever knows that anything happened. If the Sidney’s have a small circle, good luck finding the smoking gun.

by frak on Jul 8, 2009 10:21 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Lets just face it if someone offers money to struggling person they are going to take it.

The AAU groups has been breaking the rules for the last 30yrs, since they started coming down on college boosters. They just found another way to so call cheat the system, also sports agents have put together a lot of this. Back in my day it was the over giving of equipment, that players or coaches would sell out of there trunk. It really isn’t a lot of money so you would think the Ncaa would just put a number on it and be done with it.

Paul D. Kelley

by so.cal.native1952 on Jul 8, 2009 11:16 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs