ESPN.com is reporting that a former Texas A&M assistant coach says a man who runs a Texas-based recruiting service told him the Aggies had to “beat” $80,000 if it wanted to sign Patrick Peterson out of high school.
Van Malone, the former cornerbacks coach at Texas A&M, told ESPN that Will Lyles, who ran Will Lyles of Complete Scouting Services, contacted him in 2007 after Peterson visited the school College Station.
“Will calls and says, ‘If you want this kid, there are other schools that want this kid as well. They’re willing to pay a certain amount of money, around the $80,000 mark,”’ Malone told ESPN.com on Wednesday. “He said that was something we were going to have to beat as a university to be able to obtain the services of this kid.”
Peterson ended up going to LSU.
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