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Willis McGahee (official thread)

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Slightly off topic, but I just think Willis McGhee saying "deep down, ohio state knows they lost the game" or something similar to that, to be in the same ballpark as scUMmers claiming ohio state won THE GAME the last few years because they cheated...

They are both SORE LOSERS!!!

And it is so damn funny...

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Here's a link specific to the allegations against McGahee in the current Miami scandal.

Yahoo

Shapiro alleges he provided multiple extra benefits to McGahee during the 2002 season. Among the benefits he claimed to have provided:

- Two custom-tailored suits for McGahee from Fashion Clothiers in Miami. Shapiro said one of the suits was worn by McGahee for the 2002 Heisman Trophy ceremony. Shapiro said the suits cost approximately $2,000 total. According to a summary document acquired by Yahoo! Sports, the booster told federal agents about the purchase of the suits in taped interviews.
- Plane tickets for McGahee's girlfriend and a second woman to attend the 2002 Heisman Trophy ceremony in New York City. According to a summary document acquired by Yahoo! Sports, the booster told federal agents about the purchase of the tickets in taped interviews.
- Food, drinks and entertainment at Shapiro's $2.7 million Miami Beach home.
- Cash gifts.
- $2,000 in cash bounties. The bounties were: $1,000 total for 234 rushing yards (Shapiro offered $500 per 100 total yards) in a 41-16 win over Florida on Sept. 7, 2002; and $1,000 total for a touchdown ($500) and 173 yards rushing and receiving ($500) in a 28-27 win over Florida State on Oct. 12, 2002.

Corroborating accounts
- Shelly Bloom, owner of Fashion Clothiers, corroborated Shapiro's account of purchasing suits in his store for McGahee. Bloom also corroborated one of the suits being worn during the broadcast of the Heisman Trophy ceremony. Yahoo! Sports also acquired a photo of Shapiro with McGahee at the Heisman ceremony wearing one of the suits Bloom said was purchased for the player by the booster.
- One source corroborated seeing Shapiro give McGahee cash gifts.
- One source corroborated Shapiro paying for two women to be flown to New York City for McGahee in advance of the Heisman ceremony.
- Two sources corroborated McGahee being entertained in Shapiro's home.

In Shapiro's words

- "Willis McGahee was my scholarship player [in the living scholar program] at the University of Miami when I first got started as a booster in the program. Willis? first year, I didn't really communicate very often with him. But then Willis blew up on the scene that following year. Inevitably, I went to the Heisman Trophy [ceremony] with my then-girlfriend at the time, and flew in two of Willis' people to the event."
- "Before he went to the Heisman [ceremony], I took him to one of my suit makers, Shelly Bloom Fashion Clothiers in downtown Miami. I bought Willis two suits. [They] cost me about $2,000 total."

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This photo of Willis McGahee (left) and Nevin Shapiro (right) was taken at the 2002 Heisman Trophy ceremony in New York City. McGahee is wearing a suit purchased for him by Shapiro only weeks earlier at Fashion Clothiers in Miami.

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It's so gratifying that tOSU didn't lose to these guys in the Fiesta Bowl - McGahee, Wilfork and a bunch of other guys would have been ineligible if this stuff had been revealed back then.
 
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