The college basketball bribery scandal took a turn on Tuesday, when government witness and longtime Pittsburgh-area financial planner Marty Blazer admitted to paying football players at seven programs from 2000 through 2014.

Blazer admitted to paying players at Penn State, Michigan, Northwestern, Pitt, Alabama, North Carolina and Notre Dame. However, the most detailed description of player payment came out of Penn State, specifically from 2008-09.

According to Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports, Blazer alleges that he was asked by a Penn State assistant coach — who was the father of one of Blazer’s clients — to pay a player’s father $10,000 so that the player would stay in college and pass on the NFL Draft. That player was Aaron Maybin, who decided to pursue the NFL, anyway.

The money $10,000 was repaid while Maybe kept his name in the NFL Draft.

Connecting the dots, Wetzel says the only Penn State assistant coach that fit the description and the timeframe was Larry Johnson Sr., who is now the associate head coach and defensive line coach at Ohio State. When contacted, Johnson denied the claims.

“That is not accurate at all,” Johnson told Wetzel. “That is absolutely false. I would never, ever ask anybody to do that. That is not me.

“Why is it that something like that comes out and nobody says anything to me? This is the first call I’ve gotten. All of a sudden this Marty Blazer guy can just say whatever he wants? That is absolutely amazing. Wow.”

After learning of the allegation, Penn State also issued a statement, saying “the university will thoroughly examine this matter. Until we know more, we can’t comment further.”

Johnson was on Penn State’s staff from 1996-2013 and was the defensive line coach from 2000-13. He left State College to join Urban Meyer’s staff at Ohio State in 2014.