Bryant Sued for Past Due Loans
Cowboy's WR Dez Bryant is alleged to have accepted over $800,000 in loans from financial advisors/agents during his last year-and-a-half at Oklahoma State. Bryant was suspended for nearly all of the 2009 football season for lying to the NCAA about an encounter he had with Dion Sanders. Bryant spend much of that fall training for the NFL draft, and supposedly, spending lots of money too. Wearing lots of fancy jewelry or driving around campus in a newly tricked out car can be one of the things that tips off compliance officers (and the media/public) that a student-athlete may be coming into some money from somewhere. It is interesting that in the recent documentary on the Michigan Fab 5, at the end of the show, Mitch Albom states that if Chris Webber really did receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from booster Ed Martin, he and his family certainly weren't spending it or showing it off. Now that Dez has moved on to the NFL, it becomes a case of did they know/ should they have known at OSU and could be another case where the student-athlete gets out of town before the storm and the school is left to deal with the aftermath.
