While reading all the OJ Mayo apologist blogs I feel little optomism for the future of Professional Sports concerning getting rid of gangsters and thugs. Mayo is clearly a thug.
Suspended in high school he went to court to get back on the court. A judge in the city for which he played reinstated him. No big suprise there. (How many high school player have you ever heard of that were suspended for anything other than bad grades?
( I may be a litle young to be an authority on the subject but the only other one I could find was Lebron James for taking Sports gear illegally. He also, of course, went to court in his hometown and found a friendly judge who reinstated him.)
Mayo went to 4 different high schools in 4 years, his profile being upped by his professional sports agent "friend of the family". Not a friend of the mother as it turns out. As it also turns out there are now allegations Mayo may have been being paid as early on as the 9th grade. He of course is denying it.
(Compare this one to Chris Webber taking money, and denying it, over the years before the pro's.)
Mayo, enraged that referee would call a foul put the senior citizen on his face on the floor by rushing him and "bumping" him to the ground. No one did anything about that one either.
(Compare this one to the Lakers bad attitude point guard Nick Van Excel's inability to control his emotions and slammed a referee into the scorer's table resulting in Van Excel being shipped out and begining a long unremarkable career while the other Lakers went onto deep playoffs and title glory.)
Mayo by all accounts is a soft spoken young man. And a dumb as a post young man who reportedly scored an 11 on his first attempt at an SAT test. (Is that possible?)
(Compare this to Kwame Brown's reported 161 on his first attempt. Although it's not even close,it's the closest I could find.)
Mayo was a high school phenom who scored at will but plays not a taste of defense.
(Compare this to Darius Miles.)
IMO there is a common thread here. We are all human. We all make mistakes but it seems that those who are without character at all are always the ones who take the money and who end up never being a part of a championship team.
None of those whom OJ Mayo has kinship with in terms of their being a thug, and/or a liar, and/or a person taking money under the table, and/ora person who has little going for him other than God given talent, and/or a person whose intelligence is openly questioned, have ever won an NBA title. Lebronists will tell you he will one day. I doubt it. Lebron is lacking in character. OJ Mayo appears to have none at all.
The disgust I feel for not only Mayo but the sports agents and the culpable parties associated with USC cannot possibly be put into words.
How in God's name does someone who scored an 11 on an SAT get into USC? No way did he EVER get an entry level score to honestly qualify to play there. There are dogs and cats smarter than that.
Last edited by NiqueDodson on May 23rd at 10:30 PM.
'Nique
The judge was probably one of Mayo's high school boosters so that may well explain the leniency on this part.
But tell me this unless Mayo comes from a great deal of wealth, which apparently he doesn't. How the hell can he afford to buy a 50" flat screen plasma tv ? Receipts for the purchase show that the charge was made on a credit card belonging to a charity that deals with the homeless and drug dependent. Apparently Mayo's handler Rodney Guillory was a party to the purchase. Though he claims not to know anything about it at all.
Now let's see if the NCAA and the NBAPA legal counsel will treat him and USC with kid gloves. This thing is becoming more and more rampant. But yet the interested parties ie the college and the NCAA choose not to act proactively. Instead they issue mandates repeatedly as to what will and won't be tolerated. And should they normally apportion any guilt then normally the punishment comes to nothing more than a slap on the wrist . Are they dealing with kids or grown adults ?
rampant' aka tophatal .........
Last edited by rampantfanatic on May 24th at 6:12 AM.
LOL I don't even remember which sports columnist reported it at this point. I thought at the time it had to be a typo. Had to. A cat could take a shot and ink up a paw and do better than 11. LOL
Last edited by NiqueDodson on May 25th at 12:04 AM.
I see now where Mayo himself is now in the situation where he's looking to switch agents. Mayo is just proving how duumb he really is. Personally I don't believe he's allegedly bright as they're alleging he is.
If anything it also shows that the compliance inside USC isn't all it's cracked up to be. They've buried their heads in the sand anc acted like there's nothing wrong going on. It's a sad indictment as to what's going on in collegiate athletics.
And we've also got the asinine Myles Brand acting as if the NCAA is on top of everything. That's another organization that Congress ought to be really after rather than chasing Goodell and his buffoons.
