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Alonzo Mourning's New Book Highlights NCAA Recruiting Violations
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by Jon Azpiri | September 30, 2008 at 09:04 am
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Retired NBA star Alonzo Mourning's new book "Resilience" is set to hit bookstores today. The biography focuses mostly on the Miami Heat center's remarkable life story. Mourning spent part of his childhood in foster care, attended Georgetown University and became one of the rare student athletes to make it to the dean's list, and eventually became an NBA All-Star. In 2000, Mourning was diagnosed with a rare kidney disorder that forced him to retire. In 2003, he underwent a kidney transplant and worked his way back into the NBA.
But Mourning's inspirational story is not what's garnering headlines. Instead, the focus is on Mourning's frank account of being recruited out of high school by big NCAA universities.
But "Resilience" also touches on how Mourning was recruited as a star high school player. He writes that Maryland, Syracuse, Virginia and Georgia Tech all recruited him intensely and courted him with clothes, shoes, dinners at ritzy restaurants and a trip to a strip club. "Everyone understood I could have gotten money at any of these places. The message was sent," Mourning writes.
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at 09:28 on September 30th, 2008
This has been happening for a long time and I think it will continue. I know they are trying to crack down on this, but schools will always find a way to lure coveted highschool athletes.