During a radio interview with Dan LeBatard on Thursday, Houston Texans running back Arian Foster was asked about whether or not he received 'impermissable' cash benefits during his time at the University of Tennessee after acknowledging that he had back in a 2013 documentary.
He was exceedingly honest in response.
“You have people help you out here and there,” Foster said Thursday on the Dan LeBatard show. “Boosters and alumni and ex-players, they all know how it is, man. It’s hard living check to check when you don’t have enough money to go out to the movies or any kind of leisure activity. And you’re not allowed to get a job. Especially when I was in college, they were a lot more stringent on those rules, so at any given chance I got the opportunity, I took a free handout. Absolutely.”
LeBatard pushed Foster for an exact dollar figure. Foster guessed that it was “40, 50 grand throughout my entire career.”
Foster was in Knoxville from 2004-08, and played under former head coach Phillip Fullmer who is now a special assistant to the athletic director at East Tennessee State University.
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