Jameis Winston "Cooperating" With Title IX Investigation... Was There An Attempted Extortion...?

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While the attorney for FSU QB Jameis Winston, David Cornwell, admits that his client is cooperating with the Title IX investigation on campus, he also says that the accuser in the previous rape case tried to extort money from his client.

$7-million worth of being left alone...

TMZ has a copy of the letter and it claims that the accuser's attorney, Patricia Carroll, was ready to deal:

According to the letter -- obtained by TMZ Sports -- the alleged victim's lawyer, Patricia Carroll, demanded $7 MIL to settle her client's claims against FSU and Winston, telling Cornwell, "If we settle, you will never hear from my client or me again -- in the press or anywhere."

Cornwell says he rejected her offer and 4 days later she went to the media.

Fisher is now ready to move on and make sure that his quarterback is going to not get into any more trouble.

Here's the Jimbo Fisher press conference from this week where he addresses the "miscommunication" between staff and coaches involving the wearing of the uniform for the Clemson game.


The HQ still has tremendous issues with Winston even being on the field Saturday. We always thought "suspended" meant something the equivalent of staying at home, not being in attendance, and learning some kind if lesson in all of this.

The HQ doesn't buy the whole "miscommunication" gambit and the idea that the network broadcasting the game actually had 48 cut-aways (as counted by Deadspin) of him watching his team on the sidelines is appalling.

The glorification of a suspended athlete has nothing to do with subplot and it wouldn't have if he was off the field- where he belonged- in the first place.

The HQ is also not fond of Winston jumping into the middle of Sean McGuire's moment after the win and we're fairly sure there's a huge disconnect in Winston's brain when it comes to "getting it."

Which he, surely and consistenty, has not and will not. Entitlement and coddling are two words that seem to be fairly consistent in the administration of Winston's life path and we're pretty tired of it.

There's nothing wrong with being a "heel." Each sporting element has them and needs them for the sake of daily argument. But Winston, through all of his instances, has gone past that role into one of an individual who we're all waiting to fall and won't have any sympsthy when he does.

Report: Feds Looking Into FSU and Jameis Winston Investigation

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Hmmm...this could be interesting.

According to reports this afternoon, Federal Government investigators have begun looking into Florida State University's handling of rape allegations against star QB Jameis Winston and other reports of sexual assault allegations against FSU athletes over the past three years.

And while it may mean and/or turn up nothing, it most certainly is something worth monitoring.

You'll recall Winston was absolved of charges leveled by a woman who claims he assaulted her after she had multiple drinks at a Tallahassee bar in late 2012. The woman claims Tallahassee police and others did not fully investigate the charges and insinuated that they were not worth pursuing because of Winston's status.

Details of that incident did not surface until November of 2013 and the Florida Sate Attorney's office decided to not pursue the charges citing insufficient evidence.

Read the story from FOXSports.com RIGHT HERE

While at this point, there's been little, if any reaction from the University, like we mentioned earlier, it bears watching.

Today's report does not mention WHICH agency is actually investigating the allegations but the fact an outside agency has expressed some concern over the timeline and transpiring of events leads one to be reminded of that old quote that quite often "Where there is smoke, there's often fire".

Only time will tell....

Here's the look from WCTV in Thomasville-Tallahassee