Quinn, an offensive lineman from Garland, Texas, was permanently dismissed along with OU quarterback Rhett Bomar last August 2 for taking money for hours they did not work at a Norman, Okla., auto dealership.
“I didn't break any laws and I get kicked off the team, but there's people on the team that are breaking laws and failing drug tests and stuff like that, and there's nobody getting kicked off the team for that type of stuff,” Quinn told the World. “All I did was take cash.”
“I was just saying around the country. I wasn't saying it in the context of Oklahoma. There's just people I've heard of doing things.”
Bomar, now at Sam Houston State, declined comment through a university spokesman.
Sooners' football coach Bob Stoops also declined comment, other than associate athletic director Kenny Mossman saying, “The university has turned over all of our material to the NCAA and we stand by that dialogue.”
OU goes before the NCAA Infractions Committee in Indianapolis April 14 to defend itself on an allegation that the university failed to adequately monitor off-campus employment of its student-athletes.
A university investigation determined Quinn was paid $8,137.17 and Bomar $7,406.88 beyond the hours they actually worked.
Both players were ordered to pay restitution to a charity of their choice as terms of their reinstatement and both lost one season of eligibility.
Quinn transferred to Montana in September after a month in limbo.
“We didn't know what was going to happen,” Quinn told the World. “The NCAA wasn't talking to us, Oklahoma wasn't giving us any information. It was just kind of like, ‘Well, what do we do now?'
“You have poeple giving you advice and you don't know whose advice to take, beacuse no one would pick up the phone when you try to call them. It was just a matter of looking in the darkness, really.”
Quinn said he donated $5,000 to the Dallas chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation - his mother is a cancer survivor - and will donate the remainder of his restitution to the same foundation.
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