Bye, Bye Coach Floyd?

[SoCalwarrior]

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Report: Floyd paid cash for Mayo

LOS ANGELES -- A former associate of NBA star O.J. Mayo says that Southern California basketball coach Tim Floyd paid a man who helped get Mayo to play for the Trojans, Yahoo! Sports reported on Tuesday.

Louis Johnson, the former associate of Mayo's, told the Web site that Rodney Guillory told him that Floyd had given Guillory "a grand." Johnson said he was able to view $100 bills inside an envelope Guillory had.
Last year on ESPN's "Outside the Lines," Johnson accused Guillory of providing Mayo with improper benefits while the guard played for USC.

Johnson said the payment occurred in 2007. Johnson was not present for the actual exhange, but Guillory reportedly told him that they were meeting Floyd to receive money that they could spend at All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas. Johnson saw Guillory meet Floyd outside a cafe and drove around the block. When he picked up Guillory 15 minutes later he was shown the envelope containing money.

Yahoo! Sports reported Johnson has told NCAA investigators and federal authorities -- including the FBI, IRS and U.S. Attorney's Office -- that Floyd paid Guillory.

If Floyd did pay Guillory for delivering Mayo to USC, that would be a major NCAA violation.
Yahoo! Sports also reported that Southern California is the subject of an NCAA investigation into alleged improprieties in both the football and men's basketball programs.

The football probe stems from allegations of 2005 Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush receiving improper benefits for a sports marketing agent while at USC.

Guillory and Floyd declined to comment to Yahoo! about the latest accusations by Johnson.
USC general counsel Carol Mauch Amir also declined comment.

The NCAA does not comment about ongoing investigations.

Johnson had described Guillory as a "runner" who steered Mayo to the Bill Duffy Associates (BDA) sports agency. Johnson said Guillory received between $200,000 and $250,000 from BDA Sports for his efforts, which resulted in Mayo initially signing with BDA when he left USC after one season for the NBA in April 2008.
Mayo had switched to agent Leon Rose before he was drafted third overall by Memphis last year and was runner-up for the NBA's Rookie of the Year award to Chicago's Derrick Rose.

Johnson's attorneys, Anthony V. Salerno and David Murphy, confirmed to Yahoo! Sports that Johnson had told FBI, IRS and U.S. Attorney's Office investigators on May 28, 2008, about his account of the payment from Floyd to Guillory. Two weeks later, Johnson told the NCAA, according to the attorneys.

Salerno told Yahoo! Sports that Johnson's account to federal authorities carried the threat of potential prosecution if Johnson was found to be lying.

According to Johnson's attorneys, Johnson spoke with the NCAA last Friday morning at 10 a.m. PT. The conference call -- which lasted about an hour and a half -- included Johnson, his attorneys, two members of outside counsel representing USC and the two NCAA investigators who interviewed Johnson regarding Mayo last summer.

Salerno said the NCAA investigators prefaced their line of questioning by saying they "needed to tie up some loose ends."

"Our sense is that something is imminent," Salerno said. "I think the NCAA is very close to concluding their investigation. I would say it's looming large and soon."




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[Blackhat]

USC seems pretty dirty, the AD needs to be looked at.  on the football side there has been many indiscretions, now b-ball.   We'll see if the NCAA has the nuts to do anything about it or if they want to just keep their head planted in the sand. 

[ChicosBailBonds]

USC seems pretty dirty, the AD needs to be looked at.  on the football side there has been many indiscretions, now b-ball.   We'll see if the NCAA has the nuts to do anything about it or if they want to just keep their head planted in the sand. 

The AD is former Heisman winner, Mike Garrett.  Looks like Floyd should have taken the Arizona job.

[Chili]

The AD is former Heisman winner, Mike Garrett.  Looks like Floyd should have taken the Arizona job.

And Arizona fans are glad he didn't.

[NavinRJohnson]

If this is true and he actually handed the cash over himself, beyond the NCAA violations, he should be fired because he is clearly too stupid to be a basketball coach.

[Mayor McCheese]

The best part is what did OJ Mayo accomplish for the program?  A 6 seed outed in the first round?


Then again, who didn't see this coming, Mayo announces his intention to go to a school across the country that he never visited?  Weird.

[Tugg Speedman]

If this is true and he actually handed the cash over himself, beyond the NCAA violations, he should be fired because he is clearly too stupid to be a basketball coach.

And, if they really want to get tough with him, he could get busted on possible tax evasion charges.  Handing money like that could be subjected to sales tax or other CA taxes.  Did Floyd get a receipt and declare this payment?

[Coach Norman Dale]

And, if they really want to get tough with him, he could get busted on possible tax evasion charges.  Handing money like that could be subjected to sales tax or other CA taxes.  Did Floyd get a receipt and declare this payment?

While this seems to me to be too far-fetched to be true, if it did happen I would guess that Floyd sent him a 1099 for his work as an independent contractor.  So the tax issue would then be that of the recipient, not Floyd.   

[CAINMUTINY]

But for all Mayo was worth he handed over only a measly "grand"? seems a incredibly low for a player of that caliber.