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Classes as important as cash and cars

By Rod Gilmore
ESPN Insider

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Phantom jobs allegedly have existed in college football for decades, long before Maurice Clarett ever arrived on the Ohio State campus. A friend of mine, an Ohio State booster who requested anonymity, told me about a Buckeyes player in the 1950s whose job – supposedly arranged for by coaches – was to turn off the lights in the football stadium. There were no lights in the football stadium. According to Clarett, phantom jobs still exist at Ohio State. That, among other things, is what ...

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