Alonzo Mourning’s Memoir “Resilience” Reveals What Colleges Will Do To Recruit

You hear about colleges offering money, houses, cars, clothing, etc to players they are trying to recruit, but no one ever gets caught. Unless you dealt with Reggie Bush, everything is covert and hush-hush. But Alonzo Mourning, a guy who triumphed over kidney disease to return to professional basketball, wants you to know that the college recruiting he experience was blatantly shady.

But “Resilience” also touches on how Mourning was recruited as a star high school player. He writes that Maryland, Syracuse, Virginia and Georgia Tech all recruited him intensely and courted him with clothes, shoes, dinners at ritzy restaurants and a trip to a strip club. “Everyone understood I could have gotten money at any of these places. The message was sent,” Mourning writes.

As we write this, the NCAA’s top officials will order hundreds of copies and start asking questions. Because somewhere, there is a 17-year-old kid getting a lapdance in some ritzy gentleman’s club while gnawing on some grade-A beef. Sounds like an awesome “Blue Chips” sequel.
Mourning’s book touches on recruiting issues [Sporting News]
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