Report: Witness in CBB bribery trial claims he paid thousands of dollars to football players, including from Alabama
The federal trial involving bribery and corruption in college basketball is underway, and on Tuesday, it spilled over into the football world.
According to federal witness Marty Blazer, he paid thousands of dollars to football players from a number of schools.
Per Adam Zagoria of The New York Times, Alabama was on the list of schools implicated by Blazer:
Today from the college basketball bribery trial government witness Marty Blazer said between 2010-14 he paid from several hundred to several thousand dollars to FOOTBALL players from:
Pitt
Penn St
Michigan
Notre Dame
Northwestern
UNC
Alabama— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) April 23, 2019
Per a thread of tweets from Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel, Blazer claims the transactions came between 2000 and 2013:
was a Penn State assistant. Said that assistant asked him to pay a Penn State player’s father $10,000 so player would stay at PSU and not enter NFL Draft. Blazer said he did it …
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) April 23, 2019
Blazer also testified that between 2000-2013 he paid football players at Penn State, Pitt, Notre Dame, Michigan, Alabama and North Carolina in hopes he would become their financial advisor …
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) April 23, 2019
No one should be surprised that players are getting paid under the table, but it’ll be interesting to see what the NCAA does with this new information.
