Why You Should Watch HBO Tonight

Tonight’s is the night! At 10:00 pm HBO will air it’s must talked about special on athletes getting paid under the table to play college sports. And at the center of it all is four former Auburn players…Stanley McClover, Troy Reddick, Raven Gray and Chaz Ramsey…who will all claim they were given thousands upon thousands of dollars by Auburn boosters and even coaches while in high school and during college.

McClover alone says he was given $1000 per sack, money to buy a ’73 Impala, hundred dollar handshakes, and a bag full of money that was so big it almost made him pass out…but that’s nowhere nearly as good as what Ohio State did for McClover on his visit.

*Andrea Kremer is the one conducting the interview for HBO

Kremer: “But McClover says there were money handshakes from boosters at other football camps too. At Auburn for a couple hundred dollars and at Michigan State. All the schools denied any wrongdoing. And things really started heating up a few months later when he went to Ohio State for an official visit where schools get a chance for one weekend to host prospective athletes. McClover says there were money handshakes from alumni there too. About a thousand dollars. And something else to entice him.”

McClover: “They send girls my way. I partied. When I got there I met up with a couple guys from the team. We went to a party and they asked me to pick any girl I wanted.”

Kremer: “Did she offer sexual services?“

McClover: “Yes.”

Kremer: “Did you take them?”

McClover: “Yes.”

Kremer: “McClover says eventually he didn’t have to ask for money, as long as he played well, he’d get paid.”

Kremer: “How much was a sack worth?”

McClover: “Anywhere between 300 and 400 dollars. For one.”

Kremer: “I think in one game you had four sacks, what did you earn in that game?”

McClover: “Four thousand. Against Alabama.”

Kremer: “Seriously?”

McClover: “Alabama, a rivalry game.”

Kremer: “More money because it’s Alabama?”

McClover: “Definitely. No other game matters.”

Excerpt from interview with Troy Reddick:

Reddick: “He (Auburn coach) said I got some mail for you up in my office.”

Kremer: “Some mail for you?”

Reddick: “And I followed him up to his office and he gave me an envelope. I didn’t open there, I walked out to my truck, took off. … It was about 500 dollars.”

Kremer: “500 dollars in the envelope?”

Reddick: (nods yes)

Kremer: “How often did you get the money in the envelope?”

Reddick: “Over that season it happened like two or three more times. And it happened about six or seven times my senior year.”

Transcripts via SportsByBrooks