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When the Rival Collective Comes to Tamper With Your Players

Not long ago, Utah athletic director Mark Harlan (21) picked up his phone and called a fellow AD to inform him of something that had transpired: a collective tied to the other AD’s school had tampered with one of the Utes’ football players.

“We had a player who was offered, I believe, about a million dollars to pull him over to another team,” Harlan told Sports Illustrated.