I think it will be tough to nail Johnny football down on anything. His beatdown in Tiger Stadium will come in due course! Can't wait to see it.
At this point I would be a lot more concerned with the investigative prowess of the media. I can hear Randy Travis even now, "I'm diggin up bones."
Some good ones from that site: Blaming Bama (which is fun and creative) Blaming ESPN (which is less fun and less creative) Blaming the "manager" his parents hired to keep him line This is kinda fun (but I really hope karma doesn't notice my small smile, you know?) After doing 15 minutes of research into this, it actually looks exactly like the sCam controversy. Only here, Mr. Foosball's defense will be that it was his "manager" -- Uncle Nate -- who was getting the money and virginal Johnny was only signing stuff for poor orphans at Uncle Nate's request.
I don't think the NCAA can get him here because, well...because they are the NCAA. Look no farther than Miami for a textbook example of their ability to "investigate"
Whatever the outcome, popular opinion of Manzeil is permanently in deep kimchee. Negative attention is all on him. Another season in the SEC West dancing with LSU and Bama, who now know his game. Huge pressure from inside and outside. Huge sophomore slump coming.
Yep. SEC DC's will have his number this year. His stock is gonna take a big hit and he won't be mentioned for a Heisman this year.
Signing huge lots of sequentially numbered autographs is a dead give a way here... no one does this except for resale purposes. And 5 figures is hard to hide unless you want to add money laundering to the charges. If he skates thesevallegations then LSU needs to start paying athletes in $1s, $5s and $10s...
@TigersTailgating I agree the sequentially numbered thing does make it look more than a little fishy but, right now, there's no way to know whether the numbers were there when he signed or not. And, it's not against NCAA rules for an athlete's signature to be sold, just for him to make money off of it. I also would have thought that a five figure payment would have been hard to hide, but apparently Mr. Foosball's daddy has oil money and, like that sexy girl in Urban Cowboy said, all that implies. So chasing down a single five figure deposit might not be as easy with them as, say, a poor kid from the inner city. And there's always the possibility that it was paid in cash and stayed in cash making it virtually impossible to trace without someone flipping.
@shane0911 wow, that's surprising. They're saying its more likely he doesn't play than does. By the way, hiding 10k or 20k in cash would not be hard at all considering this guys lifestyle. I mean, just spend it at bars and clubs etc.
