Mo Hasan has 17 career pass attempts and has never started, but the former Vanderbilt quarterback said the Italian Mob played 30 games to fix college football games when he was with the Commodores. She said she knew him well enough to offer him $10,000.
Hasan, Vanderbilt's backup quarterback in 2018 and 2019, made the bold claim on an episode of the Momentum podcast, which he hosts. He was at Jason Aldean's Kitchen and Rooftop Bar on Broadway in Nashville when he was accosted by a gang member and offered to pay other SEC players $250,000 to $300,000 for match-fixing. He said he had been offered $1,000. Hasan said Alabama was one of the schools involved.
“He said, 'We have regular discussions with people in your position about match-fixing,'” Hasan said in an episode posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) in February. He said this in a clip on the 29th. “He named a player from the SEC, and I don't want to say the name because they're in the NFL now…but the University of Alabama, I'll tell you that. He said, 'Almost. Every game.’ The SEC is rigged.”
A spokesperson for the Vanderbilt football program declined to comment on Hasan's accusations. An SEC spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
Hasan played two seasons at Vanderbilt in 2018-19 after playing at Syracuse and Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College. He appeared in seven games before transferring to Southern California, going 11-for-17 for 158 yards and one touchdown. He was with the Trojans from 2020 to 2022, but did not play due to injury.
Hasan doubled down on his story after his claims went viral, including a derisive scolding from ESPN analyst and former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy. “I've been told it's hard to organize games from the bench,” McElroy said Friday on the “McElroy & Cubelik in the Morning” podcast.
The Commodores finished 6-7 in 2018 and 3-9 in 2019.
“To those of you in my mentions saying the mob doesn’t have to pay Vandy back because we lost big, you must be new to prop bets (lol),” Hasan said. Ta.
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In 2023, Alabama baseball fired coach Brad Bohannon for his involvement in a gambling scheme, only to find that the bettor had told a sportsbook employee that Bohannon had provided insider information. . There is no evidence that Crimson Tide players were involved in match-fixing.
According to a report in Sports Illustrated, suspicious gambling activity was suspected at a basketball game between Temple and Loyola in Maryland.
Alia Gerson covers Vanderbilt athletics for The Tennessean. Contact her at agerson@gannett.com or on her Twitter. @Alia Garson.
