Since they aren’t paying college athletes, what we have learned is that players are going to do what they have to do to make some extra cash.
Taking money from agents/boosters, selling memorabilia, charging for autographs or hope Cecil Newton adopts them. They are going to make sure they have some money to make it rain with.
Washing Huskies basketball player Venoy Overton decided to go a different route. The Big Lead has the details.
Kent Police detectives began their investigation of Overton in May when undercover Kent Officers contacted an 18 year old woman for prostitution activity on Pacific Highway South. While speaking with the woman, officers learned that she had been brought to the area by her boyfriend who directed her to perform acts of prostitution. She identified her boyfriend at Venoy Overton. The young woman also told officers that she had been given specific instructions of what sex acts to perform and what to charge, and had returned a portion of the money gained back to Overton. The woman further disclosed that she had been brought to the area to prostitute on two prior occasions.
Following their first meeting with the woman, Kent Detectives obtained additional evidence linking Overton to the crime.
I know it is hard out her for a pimp, but…………