Bammer shoots their own son

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LMAO. Keep reminding the bammies of their "tradishun," warts and all, Cleburncounty.

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Here is another article about the Bammers cheating. This talks about Logan Young paying Bammer players.

Here is the link

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=crimson

By Mike Fish | ESPN.com

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The all-mighty NCAA nailed his beloved Alabama football program. Heck, even the feds made a case of his slipping 150 grand to the coach of a Memphis schoolboy stud. Slave trading, Tennessee faithful on their moral horses call it. Though maybe what we have here is simply a scandalous, juicy glimpse into that good ol' Southern college football tradition, long flavored with a dose of cheatin'.

Let the zealots from Tennessee and Alabama judge the sinners and their misdeeds. All we'll swear to is this being the real deal, the absolute first moneyed college booster sentenced to the big house for NCAA rules bustin'. That and overspending on a marginal Memphis-bred defensive tackle, Albert Means.

Meet the big-talking booster who's sat atop the NCAA's list of suspicious characters for the better part of three decades, longer probably than anyone else: Logan C. Young Jr.

Since the days when Joe Namath was quarterback, Logan Young has been perhaps 'Bama's most influential booster.Name doesn't ring a bell, you say? Well, if you live in SEC Country where college football is a 365-day-a-year topic of conversation at the local Waffle House, in law offices and around corporate boardrooms, you damn well know the legend of Logan Young. Heard his name bandied about on sports talk radio from Little Rock, Ark., to Lexington, Ky., often linked to 'Bama's recruiting. And the tales of his hanging with college coaches, most notably the late Paul "Bear" Bryant, whom, the story goes, valued the gregarious Logan as a close ally and drinking buddy.So, was Coach Bryant's old chum set up for the ultimate booster fall? Did Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer, fuming over getting beat on top players in Memphis, call upon a handful of Vols loyalists to dig up the goods on Young and then hand them over to Southeastern Conference and NCAA investigators, ultimately leading to charges being brought by the U.S. Attorneys office in Memphis?

Heck, yeah. That doesn't pardon Young, nor should it necessarily wipe away a pending six-month prison gig. Yet while sullying a rival program or its coach has turned trendy of late (think Larry Eustachy and Iowa State, Mike Price and Alabama, Rick Neuheisel and Washington), what went down here is rife with enough dark conspiracy and shadowy characters to carry a slam-bang John Grisham suspense novel.

Catch the images: A private eye under contract to the SEC casing Logan Young's house, waiting curbside for a chance to sift through his pea-green trash bin. The NCAA enlisting at least 11 secret witnesses, led by Fulmer and his booster buddies. Fulmer warning the SEC that one of his boosters is "a queer."

Lest we forget the NCAA hierarchy, those guardians of academic integrity, cutting a deal for Means to leave Alabama and immediately become eligible at the University of Memphis. Means just missed playing for Rip Scherer, who happened to be a secret witness in the case against Alabama before he was fired as Memphis' head coach. And, in something of a first, the NCAA never questioned Mean's eligibility even though his former Trezevant High coach laid out how he paid a teammate $30 to take the college entrance exam for Means. All this wonderful theater going on while authorities hunted and eventually shut down perhaps college football's most notorious fan. And the irony is Young never set foot in a Tuscaloosa classroom. Vanderbilt was his school, though he never graduated.

"Logan Young got the bad end of the deal," the sympathetic wife of a secret witness told ESPN.com. "This guy was a target. ... Maybe they thought he was cheating on some players. Maybe he was, but when someone's life is altered it is wrong. It went too far."

Security will be on guard around Phillip Fulmer when the Tennessee coach leads his Vols into Tuscaloosa on Saturday.And so the page turns on what promises to be another wacky chapter Saturday when Tennessee visits Bryant-Denny Stadium for the first time since word leaked of Fulmer's role in the NCAA case. Tennessee might have supplanted Auburn as Alabama's biggest rival. Officials say that this might be the hardest ticket to come by in stadium history. Uniformed sideline security guards around Coach Fulmer promise to be on full display in Tuscaloosa, but, hey, that's a Saturday ritual with Southern football coaches, anyway.

Fulmer, surely, will be a target of scorn by Alabama fans, who caught wind of his involvement in the investigation since the Vols came to town two years ago. In a statement to NCAA investigators, which surfaced as part of discovery in a lawsuit filed by two fired Alabama assistant coaches, Fulmer casts Young as "Bryant's bagman." In a confidential memo to then SEC Commissioner Roy Kramer, Fulmer went so far as to suggest Young "was connected to the Mafia," advising: "I don't know if he is or not, or how far he would take retaliation, but I can't operate my program with that jerk buying players from under our nose!"

Mafia, death threats and what an old Alabama coach terms the college game's "most unhealthy rivalry." As you might expect, the fallout runs deep:

• The storied Alabama football program was spared the NCAA "death penalty," only to be hit with five years probation, a two-year bowl ban and the loss of 21 scholarships.

• Two Alabama assistant coaches lost their jobs -- though they are fighting back in the courts.

• Three Alabama boosters were officially "disassociated" by the university.As for Logan Young, the most prominent of those three boosters, Alabama officials stuck a lifetime ban on him and pulled his 24-seat skybox (price tag: $40,000) after he came under investigation for illegal recruiting in 2000. Logan says he hasn't been back since, except to spend time with old Sooners coach Barry Switzer at the Oklahoma game in 2003.

The good Lord willing, he'll prop himself up and watch the game on a TV from his bed at Methodist Hospital Central, where he underwent kidney transplant surgery Thursday morning. He might be wearing a hospital gown that ties in the back like everyone else, but he'll be recuperating in a two-room suite, with a TV tuned to the game in each room.

Young, who turns 65 in November, might be watching Alabama from behind bars next year. Once he has sufficiently recovered from his surgery, it's off to federal prison for six months, unless his conviction for bribing a "public servant" is overturned on appeal.

"For Your Eyes Only!!!"

On a dreary Friday afternoon in late September, Young answered the door of his English Tudor home in an exclusive neighborhood bordering the Pink Palace Museum, looking frail in a beige knit golf shirt and gray slacks that hung loosely from his belted waist. He appeared shorter than expected for such a powerful dealmaker, maybe 5-foot-8 or 5-9, with near perfect Jimmy Johnson hair. And, of course, there are gentle reminders of his 'Bama allegiance (the late-model Jaguar is white, however). The shiny, crimson No. 12 Alabama helmet -- signed "Joe Willie Namath" -- on the kitchen counter. The memorabilia scattered about his first-floor office, set off by a large photo of Logan and Coach Bryant that is hung on the wall.

Young leads the way to his spacious, second-floor bedroom. This is where he watches his sports on a large-screen TV. Where, according to former Trezevant High coach Lynn Lang, the two periodically huddled, beginning in 1999, for the payments on Means -- routinely $9,000 dispensed in $100 bills.

Paul "Bear" Bryant, a longtime friend of Young's father, became a father figure to Logan when his dad passed away in 1971.Now, Logan is sifting through piles of records and statements used in the NCAA case against him, seeing some for the first time. His mood runs from bursts of laughter to outbursts of rage. No matter the weight of evidence or the jury ruling against him, Young rambles on and on about his innocence. And he swears Alabama could have torpedoed the NCAA case, if only the school had investigated and fought the charges against him.

But most of his venom is spewed at Kramer, the old SEC boss, Fulmer and a band of Memphis-bred UT boosters. Guys like local Democratic Party operative, real estate developer and UT trustee Karl Schledwitz and wealthy businessman Duke Clement, for whom the last four digits of his home phone number spell "VOLS." And yes, Roy "TennStud" Adams, one-time president of the UT Alumni Association and a Young rival known for posting what he calls "street-talk" on a popular Tennessee fan Web site.

"I think they're jealous as hell of Alabama, always have been over the national championships and SEC championships," begins Young, leaning forward in his thick, cushioned seat. "I mean they won 13 SECs and Alabama has won 21. The fact that Coach Bryant used to come up here and see me, and I'm friendly with a lot of coaches."

"If you ask me," Young begins again, "Schledwitz was just looking for some kind of political publicity. I'm sure Fulmer asked him to get involved. I mean Fulmer directed the investigation. All because Alabama recruited a couple players in Tennessee and he blamed me for buying them, and it is a lie. He said I bought them. I mean he goes [into] Alabama and gets players. That is OK. But if he loses players over here, somebody paid for them."

Logan is right about at least one thing: Fulmer piqued Kramer's interest enough to kick the SEC office into an investigative mode, and later lined up potential witnesses to chat up lead NCAA investigator Rich Johanningmeier. All of this is clear from an exhaustive paper trail of documents uncovered in a lawsuit that offers a rare glimpse into the underbelly of an NCAA probe.

In faxes (at least six, between April 13 and Sept. 16, 1998) to the SEC commissioner, Fulmer lays out how Alabama allegedly is busting the rulebook. The documents, typed on Tennessee football letterhead, are variously labeled "Confidential" and "For Your Eyes Only!!!" Each cover sheet is addressed to "Coach Kramer."

Kramer forwarded the information to ex-FBI agent Bill Sievers, then under contract to the conference, who in turn hired a private eye to work the case in Memphis. It is apparent Fulmer was frustrated and consumed by Young. In a memo to Kramer, Fulmer rehashed Young's ties to the late Bear Bryant, offering up phone numbers, addresses and points of contact in a who's who of players Young allegedly bought -- "usually defensive linemen that are black and poor."

"[Young] is very wealthy and often drinks a lot and brags about his boys he gets to go to Alabama," Fulmer wrote to Kramer.

Roy Adams is perhaps better known as "TennStud," the handle he uses when posting gossip on UT fan Web sites. With assets worth $14 million, Young could afford to sink $1 million into his legal defense team, which was led by former Watergate prosecutor James Neal. Born into money, Young inherited Osceola Foods. By the mid-1980s, he and his partners split $25 million after selling a local Pepsi-Cola bottling operation. As owner of the USFL's Memphis Showboats, Young brought professional football and former UT standout defensive end Reggie White to his hometown.

Young was a well-heeled booster, but not much better off than UT rival Duke Clement, whose estate was valued at $5.3 million in a divorce settlement last December. Like Young, he inherited the family business, belongs to the Memphis Country Club and is a member of a couple of hunting clubs. He, too, has been known to drink to excess, at least according to his ex-wife, who graphically described his raucous, frat boy behavior in divorce filings.

In a tape-recorded interview with NCAA investigators, Clement described himself as "personal friends" with Coach Fulmer, then set out to define the lifestyle of Logan Young. He reveled in the story of Young hiring a limo one night to cart Clement and his wife, along with Young's then-girlfriend, to the Horseshoe Casino in nearby Tunica, Miss. Told of Young winning 25 grand in less than an hour at the blackjack table. Talked about a dinner party where Young, fueled by J&B and water, bragged on end about recruits he'd bought.

"He always says, 'I learned from the master,' " Clement said after being granted secret witness status by the NCAA. "I ask him, 'What are you talking about?' He said, 'The Bear taught me how to do it.' He said, 'I learned from the master.' ... He's cussin' and he's sayin', 'I'm so much smarter than that NCAA. They'll never catch me.' "

Unbeknownst to Young, SEC gumshoes already had tailed him to places like The Grove Grill and Folk's Folly, assigned to "observe Young at his hangouts and overhear conversations." Among the gems uncovered in the detailed investigative reports was news that when the scotch kicks in, Young "will begin to shout 'Roll Tide' and/or sneeze."

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Here is another story about Mike Price running around the city of Pensacola with an ugly stripper named Destiny.

Here is the link.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/...ce_behavior_ap/

Meeting on bad terms

Price, 'Bama officials discuss woman, $1K hotel bill

Posted: Thursday May 01, 2003 10:08 AM

Updated: Friday May 02, 2003 12:08 AM

Mike Price took Washington State to the Rose Bowl in 2002. Scott Halleran/Getty Images

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama coach Mike Price met with university officials Thursday amid revelations of a free-spending night at a topless bar in Florida and that a young woman tried to charge more than $1,000 in food and drinks to his hotel bill the next morning.

The fate of the former Washington State coach could be decided at a trustees meeting on Saturday, months before he is scheduled to coach his first game for the Crimson Tide.

University President Robert Witt and athletic director Mal Moore met with Price Thursday morning. Witt called a meeting of the board of trustees' athletics committee and other board members for Saturday "to present and discuss his decision regarding Price's status as head football coach," a university statement said.

Price, 57, came under university scrutiny after spending time at a nightclub called Arety's Angels in Pensacola, Fla., on April 16, while in town for a pro-am golf tournament the next day."He was here and he was a perfect gentleman," club owner Arety Kapetanis told The Associated Press on Thursday. "He did not leave with anyone from our club."

While at the topless club, Price bought some drinks for himself and dancers but did not hug them, Kapetanis said. He did hug a waitress who was clothed, however, and quickly backed off when told touching was not allowed, she said.

"He did not appear to be or act intoxicated. It was good, clean fun," Kapetanis told the AP.

The next morning, a woman reportedly ordered more than $1,000 in food and drinks -- one of everything on the menu -- and charged it to Price's hotel room at the Crowne Plaza Pensacola Grand. The Montgomery Advertiser said Andrea Wright, assistant manager of the hotel, confirmed the order.Dale Peterson, manager of the hotel, declined comment when contacted by The Associated Press Thursday. The name of the woman in Price's room was not disclosed.

The Mobile Register, quoting four workers at the Crowne Plaza who did not want to be identified, said the woman wanted the food placed in boxes so she could leave with it.

The hotel contacted Price because of the unusual order, and he returned later in the day and paid the bill after the woman left, the Register said. She was not allowed to leave with the order.Price, who was hired in December from Washington State, is married and has two sons on his coaching staff. He has declined to comment on his actions during the trip.

Price's contract, which remains unsigned, has a "for cause" clause which says he can be fired for any behavior "that brings employee into public disrepute, contempt, scandal, or ridicule or that reflects unfavorably upon the reputation or the high moral or ethical standards of the University."

A group of Tide players went to Price's office to show support Thursday.

"We're in his corner 100 percent," senior receiver Antonio Carter said. "No matter what, we want him to be our coach."

Quarterback Brodie Croyle described Price's mood as "somewhat ashamed, somewhat embarrassed."

"I think it really boosted his spirits a little bit for us to come in there and tell him how we felt about him and tell him how much we respect him," Croyle said.

The players said Price told them what happened and apologized. They wouldn't elaborate on what the coach said.

"He shot straight with us," Croyle said. "We even stopped him halfway through his story, and we're like, 'Coach, that's enough. We're behind you, and we're going to stick behind you no matter what.' "

A dancer, "Destiny" Stahl, 36, told The Birmingham News that Price spent about $200 on her and also bought drinks for and tipped other dancers, but nothing happened beyond dancing.

Kapetanis said Stahl, who works the day shift, was still on duty when Price left and was picked up by her husband. Price, however, returned later that night with some friends.

Witt said he was in contact with the chancellor and university trustees and hoped "to bring closure to this situation as soon as possible."

"This review involves careers and lives and it has been imperative that it be thorough," he said in a statement.

He said he was unable to assemble the trustees before Saturday because some had scheduling conflicts.

This could become yet another black mark on a Tide program which has won six national championships but is now on NCAA probation.

The probation came after Mike DuBose was forced out during a 3-8 season in 2000, having survived an admission to lying about his relationship with his secretary. The university agreed to pay the woman $350,000 to settle accusations of sexual harassment, but opted to let DuBose keep his job.

The NCAA placed the football program on five years' probation early last year, mostly for violations that occurred during DuBose's four-year tenure.Popular coach Dennis Franchione left the Tide in the lurch last year, bolting for Texas A&M after winning 10 games in his second season. Alabama then turned to Price.

Price had led Washington State to back-to-back 10-win seasons and a Rose Bowl berth las

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