I am really, really, really steamed about this!

There has been a lot of speculation among Texas fans that CU (or a booster of some sort) offered Darrel Scott’s mom a job at a Bank in Boulder to get him to commit. Apparently, the source of that rumor has surfaced.

According to the NYT, it was the jilted position coach of St. Bonaventure, Scott’s highschool.
This tool goes by the name of Sonsini. The scuttlebutt on that is that this guy was promised a position at UT if he could deliver Scott. In the last few days, Sonsini was pushed out of the picture by Scott and CU came back into the picture in a big way to win the comittment.
His quote:

“Colorado came in on Friday and said and did something and offered something that Darrell and his mom couldn’t pass up.”

This is absurd. The position that was purportedly offered Mrs. Scott would have been a highly paid bank management type job. Mrs. Scott is a OB/GYN Nurse!
Our Boosters can barely be bothered to donate for well, anything and everybody knows that CU is under the microscope and the press is just licking its chops for another chance at us. I mean, how stupid would this booster have to be? And to suggest that our coaches offered the job?
The NYT actually had a reporter in the room when Scott made his final decisions. Here is a quote from that article via the Dallas News(earlier linked to on signing day):

In an account documenting Scott’s decision-making process, The Times reported that Scott cooled on Texas because he was uncomfortable about the school’s recent hire of Major Applewhite as running backs coach.
“The more I thought about it, the more it scared me,” The Times quoted Scott as saying. Scott expressed concern about Applewhite’s experience with running backs and said he did not want to attend a university where he did not know the position coach.

Anything is possible in recruiting, but really, this would be some of the worst underhand recruiting ever. Considering the reputation Hawk and Cabral over the years, nothing fits here.
Neither the NCAA or the BigXII are currently involved at all (i.e. this is all unsubstantiated rumor started by a position coach that watched his payday walk away):

The Big 12 is not an investigative body and the conference’s compliance department has not received a request from any of its member universities to look into Scott’s signing, the spokesman Rob Carolla said.

Because this is all a bunch of baloney, I will NOT be posting about this again unless some actual proof turns up or something interesting happens (like Sonsini being ridiculed/fired for this sort of stunt)
Just thought ya all should know…

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