Concerning Artrell Woods (SI's main source for its OSU series)

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Former Oklahoma State receiver Artrell Woods was a central figure in Sports Illustrated’s final chapter of “The Dirty Game.”

Woods, during a Monday telephone interview, said he hasn’t read any of the five-part investigative series. He didn’t know the final chapter was published until he was informed of it during the telephone interview. That, he concluded, must be why his cell phone has been blowing up.

But Woods doesn’t care about any of that. He doesn’t care how he was portrayed in the story. He just wants to get paid.

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Woods said he tells every reporter who calls him that he isn’t interested in what is going on at OSU or what SI writes. He just wants a judge or a lawyer to call and tell him he is either owed -- or not owed -- money and he hasn’t gotten that call yet.

“I don’t give a damn about who was getting paid,” he said. “I don’t care about who might have been paying them. I could care less about any of that.

That’s my main point I try to get across to everybody, because I’ve got people jumping on my Facebook and jumping on me like ‘stuff happens to everybody.’

“Well, (expletive) not everybody breaks their back and gets paralyzed. (Stuff) happens to everybody, but if that doesn’t happen to you, then don’t tell me how I should feel afterwards, especially when I’m doing something I don’t want to do in the first place.”

Later during the interview, Woods said he “doesn’t even want that money.” He said all he ever wanted to be was a video game developer and he wants to find a way to make that happen.

“Name one D-I school that is going to let one football player take those type of classes,” he said, adding that he needs over $100,000 to start a business.

“I don’t need their money. I can make my own (expletive) money. I just need the opportunity to make money like everybody else has. I didn’t have that opportunity, I feel like.”

Added Woods, “All I want is my opportunity. The only way I see that happening is you all writing me a check. It could be for $300,000 or $3,000,000. It’s about three dollars out of their pocket at the end of the day.”

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