OU’s Tiny Gallon Admits To Taking Money

Basketball player Tiny Gallon has finally answered questions about the $3,000 he was given by a a Merrill Lynch financial advisor while at Oklahoma. His side of the story is:

“Oak Hill wouldn’t release my transcript under no circumstances and my mother had to do what she had to do. It wasn’t an agent, it was a financial adviser. She got the money from him, got my transcript out of Oak Hill HS. I got a single mother. When she got the money, she paid the financial adviser back through my freshmen year.”

That’s not that bad. The money went towards a good cause and he wouldn’t have been able to enroll at OU without those transcripts, so actually he was taking the money to help the school out. Still a rule is a rule, you can’t accept any money as an amateur athlete. It doesn’t matter now, he’s pro. OU is going to dinged for it by the NCAA though.