Blake contacted Suh during UNC tenure

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http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/10/06/1742187/blake-contacted-suh-during-unc.html

 

Phone records released Tuesday show that former UNC Chapel Hill associate head football coach John Blake last year placed calls to agent Gary Wichard's cell phone at times within minutes of calls to the family of prized 2010 draft prospect Ndamukong Suh of Nebraska.

 

On Monday, University of Nebraska coach Bo Pelini told the Omaha World-Herald that he recalled concerns over possible contact between John Blake and Suh during Suh's time as a student-athlete at Nebraska.

 

The phone records, obtained through an open records request, don't show the content of the phone calls. Blake has denied through lawyers he steered any player to Wichard or other agents; investigators are probing Blake's ties to agents while he coached the Tar Heels.

 

Blake's connections with Wichard have drawn scrutiny since July, when UNC acknowledged that it was under investigation by the NCAA.

 

Suh, who was the second selection in this year's NFL draft after being named a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, said Tuesday that Blake is a good friend and didn't push an agent on him.

 

Suh said he didn't have any contact with Wichard in the agent process, and Wichard was not one of the final three agents he considered.

 

"In no instance, did he try to push an agent on me of any kind," Suh said.

 

Suh signed with Eugene Parker and Roosevelt Barnes of Maximum Sports Management on Jan. 27. The Detroit Lions made him the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft on April 22.

 

The (Raleigh) News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer obtained the records for Blake's cell phone and desk phone related to six numbers associated with Suh and his family. The newspapers had previously obtained records of Blake's calls with Wichard.

 

The records cover Blake's cell phone from Oct. 31, 2009, to June 22, 2010, and his desk phone from May 11, 2009, to Aug. 30, 2010.

 

They show a total of 19 communications between Blake and Suh or his family members. The records do not distinguish between phone calls and text messages.

 

UNC associate sports information director Kevin Best said UNC officials didn't know anything about Blake's phone calls to Suh before the NCAA review and that the calls never came up during the course of the investigation.

 

 

 

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Hope Suh isnt bothered by any of this or affects his play in Detroit.

JB is a waste of space imo, he brings trouble wherever he goes. He has lead youngsters in the wrong direction to many times.