The family friend, Jerome McMullin, said that despite Maurice Ford finding the affordable living arrangements, it was McMullin, not Ford that helped the family with the rent during difficult financial times. According to the Alabama High School Athletic Association, it is a violation of recruiting and amateur rules for a player's high school coach to pay for a player's rent, thus effecting his status at Kentucky.
Concerning the time that Ford paid the money to the landlord, Billy Fanges, Eric Bledsoe's second cousin said:
"It was me and my family who paid it," Fagnes said. "One time, I gave the rent money to Maurice Ford because the landlady was running late and I'm a contractor and had to get to work. So I gave it to Maurice Ford to give to her."It taste like people are circling the wagons and had to get their story down just a little and it worries me. but if what McMullin has stated pans out, Cat fans don't need to worry about anything other than finding out that McMullin is an agent or something.
That's strange that he would hand the money to the coach. Being a close family friend and all you would think he would just hand it to the tenant (his family member). I guess this must be legit though...
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