Former No. 1 overall player Renardo Sidney says his family took money during his time at Mississippi State.
Sidney talked about his family receiving money on Jeff Goodman’s podcast:
Renardo Sidney says his family was paid while he was at Mississippi State. His mom denied getting money from former coach Rick Stansbury. STORY: https://t.co/JtA5qO3M5z
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) October 26, 2018
Here are some of Sidney’s comments:
“I was getting money,” Sidney said on the podcast. “I don’t know how much. They weren’t giving it to me. They were giving it to my mom.”
“I remember my mom used to come all the way down there (to Mississippi State) probably once a month,” he added. “I never asked her how much we were getting. I knew we were getting some money. She told me.”
Patricia Sidney denied her son’s claims and said she did not receive any money from Stansbury – who is now the head coach at Western Kentucky.
Sidney said he and his family, who moved to Los Angeles his sophomore season of high school, lived in a $1.4 million home and that his father, who lives in Las Vegas now, charged at least one agent $1,500 for a meeting before Sidney left college.
“I knew we were getting a lot of free stuff,” Sidney said. “But at the time, I couldn’t tell my dad and my mom what to do. I was 14, 15, 16 years old.”
Sidney said his father never wanted him to go to Mississippi State and had a rocky relationship with Stansbury.
“He wanted me to go overseas,” Sidney said. “But my mom cried all day long. I’m a mama’s boy, and she wanted me to go home and play in front of my family. My dad came to one game at Mississippi State. He never wanted me to go there. He didn’t see eye to eye with Stansbury.”
The wildest part is Sidney’s dad charging $1,500 from agents for a conversation with his son. Wild.
— Rob Dauster (@RobDauster) October 26, 2018
