A University of Oklahoma walk-on football player who never saw game action earned about twice as much from a Norman, Okla., auto dealership as Rhett Bomar during roughly the same period in 2005, records show.
Jermaine Hardison, a wide receiver from Midwest City, Okla., was paid for an average of 43 hours a week from late February through mid-May 2005, while school was in session and spring practice was held, the records show. His pay from Big Red Sports/Imports averaged $459 a week over that 12-week period.
Until this week, only two OU players - Bomar, a quarterback from Grand Prairie, Texas, and J.D. Quinn, an offensive lineman from Garland - had been implicated in taking money that they didn't earn from Big Red. Both had been expected to start last season as sophomores before being dismissed from the program on Aug. 2 for taking excessive pay.
NCAA documents released Monday, however, allege that a third player also took money "for work not performed." The player's name is blacked out.
Hardison earned a total of $9,926 through mid-July 2005 and Bomar earned $5,092.30 from late-March through mid-August, according to pay stubs, which were among hundreds of pages of materials obtained by The Dallas Morning News through several open records requests since last August.
Hardison didn't respond to multiple messages left for him by The News since mid-September or to written questions sent to him via a delivery service
