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From today's LA Times in a huge article by Diane Puci on OJ Mayo and USC.
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These days, at least three men exert — or claim — at least some control over Mayo's time: Rodney Guillory, a former Reebok representative based in Los Angeles; Lloyd McGuffin, Mayo's high school coach; and Mike Woelfel, an attorney who is a Huntington assistant coach this season.
Once listed by Mayo in a biography as "the most impressive person I have ever met," Guillory is credited by some basketball insiders with influencing the player's college choice of USC. He is said to be the person who jumped the gun by scheduling a news conference last fall where Mayo was supposed to announce his commitment to the Trojans. (Reporters arrived at an L.A.-area hotel, but Mayo, who was in the area visiting the USC campus, never did. His choice wasn't made public for several more weeks.)
Guillory is a regular at the Galen Center and in the USC players' lounge after games. Asked to help arrange an interview with Mayo, Guillory at first said the player wouldn't talk by phone or in person. "And don't bother calling his school either," Guillory added, implying that no one would agree to be quoted for a newspaper story.
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Later in the same article
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Woelfel sought information himself, asking what a reporter knew about Guillory. "I've been Googling him," Woelfel said, "and I can't find anything."
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For those not as obsessed with the OJ Mayo circus as myself, a reminder who Rodney Guillory is. Several years back 2 players from Compton wound up suspended by the NCAA, PG Tito Maddox of Fresno State, and SG Jeff Trepagnier of USC. Both guys were suspended because they had improper contact from a man ruled to be a "runner" for a sports agent, they had taken cash and plane tix(to Las Vegas) from a man who called himself a "promoter" but in fact worked for an agent. That man was Rodney Guillory. IN 2000 the NCAA ruled that Guillory was "a representative for an agent" and suspended both players for several games. Maddox got in trouble again and was booted out of Fresno State. the subsequent NCAA investigation found several violations, more than one involving Guillory, and Fresno State went on probation and Tark got fired.
And Trepagnier played for USC, how in the world can the head coach at USC, Tim Floyd, allow a guy who got a Trojan suspended 6 years ago, to have regular access to his current players?
I knew before that Guillory and Mayo were tight, but I had no idea that he had such regular access to USC.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/colle...,853319.story?page=2&coll=la-headlines-sports
Man Floyd might as well put a big neon sign on the new Galen center inviting the NCAA to investigate USC basketball.
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These days, at least three men exert — or claim — at least some control over Mayo's time: Rodney Guillory, a former Reebok representative based in Los Angeles; Lloyd McGuffin, Mayo's high school coach; and Mike Woelfel, an attorney who is a Huntington assistant coach this season.
Once listed by Mayo in a biography as "the most impressive person I have ever met," Guillory is credited by some basketball insiders with influencing the player's college choice of USC. He is said to be the person who jumped the gun by scheduling a news conference last fall where Mayo was supposed to announce his commitment to the Trojans. (Reporters arrived at an L.A.-area hotel, but Mayo, who was in the area visiting the USC campus, never did. His choice wasn't made public for several more weeks.)
Guillory is a regular at the Galen Center and in the USC players' lounge after games. Asked to help arrange an interview with Mayo, Guillory at first said the player wouldn't talk by phone or in person. "And don't bother calling his school either," Guillory added, implying that no one would agree to be quoted for a newspaper story.
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Later in the same article
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Woelfel sought information himself, asking what a reporter knew about Guillory. "I've been Googling him," Woelfel said, "and I can't find anything."
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For those not as obsessed with the OJ Mayo circus as myself, a reminder who Rodney Guillory is. Several years back 2 players from Compton wound up suspended by the NCAA, PG Tito Maddox of Fresno State, and SG Jeff Trepagnier of USC. Both guys were suspended because they had improper contact from a man ruled to be a "runner" for a sports agent, they had taken cash and plane tix(to Las Vegas) from a man who called himself a "promoter" but in fact worked for an agent. That man was Rodney Guillory. IN 2000 the NCAA ruled that Guillory was "a representative for an agent" and suspended both players for several games. Maddox got in trouble again and was booted out of Fresno State. the subsequent NCAA investigation found several violations, more than one involving Guillory, and Fresno State went on probation and Tark got fired.
And Trepagnier played for USC, how in the world can the head coach at USC, Tim Floyd, allow a guy who got a Trojan suspended 6 years ago, to have regular access to his current players?
I knew before that Guillory and Mayo were tight, but I had no idea that he had such regular access to USC.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/colle...,853319.story?page=2&coll=la-headlines-sports
Man Floyd might as well put a big neon sign on the new Galen center inviting the NCAA to investigate USC basketball.
