During Mayo's three years of high school and four years of college, Mayo received thousands of dollars in cash, clothes and other benefits. This behavior violates NCAA regulations.
The insider is a man named Louis Johnson, who used to be a member of Mayo's inner circle. He revealed that in the past four years, Mayo received cash and gifts worth about $30,000 from Rodney Guillory, the 43-year-old promoter of the Los Angeles event, including flat-screen TVs in Mayo University dormitories, as well as mobile phones, hotel rooms, clothes, meals and air tickets of Mayo's friends and relatives. Louis Johnson also provided some receipts and invoices as evidence.
When Mayo was still in high school in Ohio and West Virginia, Rodney Giroli received monthly remittances from the bill duffy Association, a sports organization in Northern California. Louis Johnson revealed that before Mayo entered USC (University of Southern California), BDA Sports Economy Company gave Rodney Guillery about $200,000. Rodney Guillery spent most of it on his own expenses and invested the rest in Mayo.
Mayo and BDA Sports Economic Company verbally reached an agreement to let BDA Sports Economic Company's agent act for him as a reward for these money and gifts. Now Mayo has chosen Calvin Andrews of BDA Sports Economic Company as his agent.
Providing money and other benefits to athletes violates the relevant provisions of NCAA. In California, this behavior is judged as a misdemeanor.
Mayo, Rodney Giroli and officials from the University of Southern California all issued statements denying this statement, saying that they were just pure friendship.