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Nate Robinson: UW booster offered $100k per year to play football

Nate Robinson, former two-sport star at the University of Washington, says he was offered $100,000 per year by a booster to play on the Huskies football team.

The 33-year-old Seattle native revealed this on his podcast -- #Holdat -- with former NBA teammate Carlos Boozer, with whom Robinson was discussing whether college athletes should be compensated.

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Robinson, then a freshman who just finished starting at defensive back on the football team and guard on the basketball team, was preparing to hang up his cleats and focus on his hoops career.