Decades ago, a few Razorback fans put $100 bills into the hands of Arkansas basketball great Sidney Moncrief.
“I can’t say that occasionally an alumnus or overzealous fan didn’t walk up to me after a game and put a hundred-dollar bill in my hand when he shook it,” Moncrief wrote in his autobiography.
This, however, was appreciation cash.
Moncrief was already a Razorback and was not heading elsewhere.
It wasn’t under-the-table cash meant to sway a high school recruit to one school or another, which has long been perceived by the public as one of the biggest problems in big-time college basketball or football.