Is Cam Newton's Father Really the First Parent Who Sought Money from a School?

Cecil Newton, Sr., admitted that he sought money from Mississippi State.Is this really all that novel? Didn't the SEC have a big scandal where Tennessee turned in Alabama because, allegedly, school boosters were paying high school coaches to steer players to their favorite schools? Isn't this possible a corollary to that? Or, does everyone operate under a NCAA-instilled illusion (delusion?) that every program is clean, that every college football player can do the work (Michael Lewis seemed to suggest otherwise in some short references in The Blind Side), that every player will progress to a meaningful degree so that he won't be parking cars or busing tables when his playing days are over? Boosters with bags of cash.Coaches shaking hands with their palms up.Parents of kids of modest means who see big-time schools about to make huge bucks off of, among other things, the labors of their kids, seeking to get greased (especially when at times it's an open question whe...