Your Mother Slept With Wilt Chamberlain

I’m going to be honest because no one else will say it. O.J. Mayo was over hyped, overrated & not even the best player in the PAC-10. In an apparent violation of NCAA rules while he was still in high school and during his one year in college, former USC basketball player O.J. Mayo, received thousands of dollars in cash, clothes and other benefits.

Louis Johnson, a one time inner circle member. says Mayo accepted around $30,000 in cash and gifts during the past four years from Rodney Guillory, a 43-year-old Los Angeles event promoter. In addition to cash, the gifts included a flat-screen television for Mayo’s dorm room, cell phone service, a hotel room, clothes, meals and airline tickets for Mayo’s friends and a relative, according to Johnson, others with knowledge of the gifts and store receipts.

If anyone is surprised by this I have a large bridge to sell you.

When Mayo was in high school in Ohio and West Virginia, Guillory was receiving monthly payments from the Northern California sports agency Bill Duffy Associates. Johnson said BDA provided Guillory with around $200,000 before Mayo arrived at USC, and that Guillory used most of the money to support his own lifestyle but also gave a portion of it to Mayo.

In exchange for the payments and gifts, Mayo entered a verbal agreement to allow BDA to represent him when he turned pro. He named BDA’s Calvin Andrews his agent. Go figure.

After Duffy’s company quit funding Guillory last year, Johnson says Guillory gave Mayo the flat-screen television, a hotel room and meals — and paid for it with a credit card that belongs to a nonprofit organization called “The National Organization of Sickle Cell Prevention and Awareness Foundation.” The organization has never been registered as a charitable trust with the California Attorney General’s Office. Mary E. Brown, president and CEO of the Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of California, said she had never heard of the foundation for which Guillory charged purchases through.

Another way of saying “It’s a shell charity.” If this turns out to be true, SoCal could eventually be taking it up the ass…but don’t count on it.

Johnson has had his own troubles in the past. A couple of years after initially meeting Guillory and Mayo, he was unemployed and received a suspended sentence and probation after being charged with selling cocaine.

Guillory was also involved with former USC basketball player Jeff Trepagnier, who was suspended in 2000 for taking illegal benefits (the NCAA ruled that Guillory had purchased airfare for Trepagnier and Fresno State’s Tito Maddox).

To bad this happened at USC because it likely nothing will come of it. God forbid if that happened at an SEC school. Three smoking guns now at USC. Any other school and they would be buried in sanctions.

Of course none of this would have happened if Mayo had the self control of a chimp on crystal meth. All he had to do was wait 6 months and all the riches untold would be his, his school would not be suffering a scandal. It only would have been 6 months, yet he did not have the self discipline to wait. How will he handle all the money when he has demonstrated the impulse control of a 3 year old?

This is the future of SoCal basketball.