Maligned Former UA Coach Wins Big
The $30 Million Misunderstanding
By Stephen Flanagan Jackson
Special to The Locust Fork
Logan Young's pink palms moist with sweat,the crisp $1,000 bills have a greasy feeling as the Memphis tycoon counts out 150 greenbacks for Lynn Lang's equally moist, awaiting pink palms.
The payoff marks another big payday in the trafficking of black high school athletes in Memphis. The cream of the high school crop are referred to as Blue Chips. This one - Albert Means - brought a pretty penny in the big time, high stakes, under-the-table game known as college football recruiting.
In the recruitment wars of college football, pretty, voluptuous girls are used to entice some of these blue chippers. Steroids are rampant as the blue chippers seek to bulk up to enhance their worth to drooling college scouts. Completing the negative troika of sex, drugs, and money, Lang, black himself, used his position as a high school coach to barter his own inner-city wards to the universities whose zealous fans -known as rogue boosters - ante up the most.