Allegations have come up that a former Mississippi State football player named Kenny Rogers allegedly solicited money from school officials in exchange for Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton’s signature on a Letter of Intent.
ESPN.com has the details:
“He said it would take some cash to get Cam,” Bond said. “I called our athletic director, Greg Byrne, and he took it from there. That was pretty much it.”
Sources told ESPN.com the former teammate is Kenny Rogers, who played at Mississippi State from 1982 to ‘85. Rogers operates a Chicago-based company called Elite Football Preparation, which holds camps in Chicago, Alabama and Mississippi. A Lexis search for that business lists Kenneth Rogers as the contact and his title as “agent.” A Birmingham News story from 2008 said Elite Football Preparation “matches high school athletes with college programs.”
Bond said the former teammate told him other schools had already offered $200,000,...
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