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Nate Robinson: Washington Booster Offered Him $100K to Return to Football Team

Former NBA guard Nate Robinson said Tuesday that a booster offered him $100,000 per year to return to the football team at the University of Washington after he decided to focus on basketball.

On an episode of the Holdat podcast (h/t SI.com's Dan Gartland), Robinson discussed the offer:

"When they fired Rick Neuheisel my freshman year that made it easy for me to make my decision to quit and go play basketball, which I wanted to do anyway. For my three years at UW, I had a booster offer me $100,000 per year to come back and play football because they needed Nate Robinson back on the football field because we weren't winning any games, it wasn't exciting.