[In Reply to: JJ and NCalloway were best friends posted by clay on May 28, 2006 clay's message: At least that is my understanding. They hunt, they fish, they went
everywhere together. It would have been very easy for JJ to call
Callaway and say, "Look, where is TC? My question is why was Callaway never put under this “Spanish Inquisition?” I
mean I have studied the NCAA Transcripts a lot and I have allways
wondered why JJ just did not go through NC to find out where to get the
SUV back.]
Simple answers. (A) The vehicle was out for about six weeks as I
remember it. I'm going to tell it all tonite. The company that we were
going to use to finance the vehicle was owned by BH Enterprises. (our
parent corporation) The gal who ran the finance company was having an
affair with the CFO and the CFO had been told out on by our finance guy
at the Columbus store. Consequently the finance company wouldn't buy a
car deal on JP Getty from the Columbus store. I shipped the deal to the
Union City location (man who ran store was a big Bama man and the
finance gal loved him) and for some reason known only to himself he sat
on the deal for 2 weeks before calling it in. To National Car Credit.
Better known as NCCI. They ran a credit check on Travis and he came
back in the Tuscaloosa bureau with the only stuff in his name being
phone, address, and job title was "laborer" UA. A week went by while
NCCI attempted to contact Travis by phone to do a pre-putchase
interview. When they did get him on the phone he was not an impressive
interview. The interviewer wrote down that he slurred and said he also
didn't know if he liked the jeep all that well. In any event the
manager at the finance company called our guy in Union city and
declined to purchase the deal unless we "endorsed it" An endorsement is
basically a co-signer by the dealership. We were charging Travis 27%
interest but there was no money made on the front end (selling gross)
to amount to anything and we would have never signed that deal under
those circustances with any other kid off the street (the litmus test)
so we and in particular I, declined. We are now 3and a half weeks into
this thing. I asked the Union City guy to look further. Mercury then
declined because they said he was out of area. We shopped it too an
independant lot in Columbus. He was going to buy the car from us and
turn around and finance it on a note basis for TC. This is how hard we
worked to put this deal together. But TC couldn't afford the note lot
payments. We are now seriously into this deal and the managers at the
dealership are raining holy cain to get the deal booked or back. Means
get 'er done or repo. At that point I was way too embarrassed to tell
Neal we couldn't get Jeff's player done. So we started calling Travis
day and nite. He had no answering machine and his phone rang day and
nite. I knew we had problems when I went by the weight room on my way
to Huntsville and both players there and Terry Jones said they hadn't
seen Travis that summer. I read of all places on TI that he was gone
from the University. The next day I went back thru the file and since
he was gone I called the numbers on the credit application he filled
out in Jax. I called his home and nothing and then I called his
friend's phone number he had provided and TC answered. He first asked
if he was in trouble then began negotiating to keep the car. I told him
he had three days to arrange for money as Dino, the skip tracer and
repo guy would be there after the car. He then got angry and said he
hated "DuBose" and was going to do "what he had to do". Callaway still
didn't know anything about all this and hadn't said anything about him
not being in school. We
picked up the car, turns out he was staying with what he descrived as
his common law wife, and he was obviously on something and beat the
little lady he was living with in front of the two old repo guys and
two small children (her's and maybe his). We got the old jeep back to
Columbus and wholesaled it to another dealer. Callaway heard about the
trouble and called and apologized. Later TC enrolls at UF and is riding around campus in a newer Jeep Cherokee. Nuch nicer and a new Motor scooter.
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