Comments on: De Smith: "God help those agents" who violate rules regarding paying college players

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:52:54 +0000

De Smith is full of shit. Players demanding cash from agents and agents paying it has been going on forever without so much as a peep from the NFLPA. What De Smith, Coach Saban and the rest of the alleged “politically correct” nay-sayers shy away from is that it is the PLAYERS who DEMAND large sums of money from the agents, it’s NOT the agents coming to the homes of these kids and offering it. The first word out of these kids mouth, usually with his parent at his side is” HOW MUCH WILL YOU GIVE ME IF I HIRE YOU AS MY AGENT.
To believe these kids are being taken advantage of is ludicrous; they are willing and demanding participants.

By: tacious

tacious — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:17:54 +0000

@ Karmathaitch
When did the full athletic scholarship and (potentially) 4 free years of room/ board/ college education become not enough compensation for these student athletes and their family’s?
Their parents don’t have to foot the college bill that so many other family’s incur… so I don’t get what your argument is… and if a meal plan isn’t included with the scholarship package, which I’m certain it is, then why wouldn’t the parents of these kids be able to afford to feed their kids through college… considering they don’t even have to pay for college?

By: Football Fan

Football Fan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:12:13 +0000

karmathaitch,
You must not know but see college athletes who are on scholarships, which happens to be every player getting paid off because only top players get paid off and receive scholarships, get a meal plan and have a dorm room or apartment as part of their scholarship. Trust me these guys don’t have any complaints. They are popular on campus, professors are easier on them than everyone else, and they don’t have thousands in student loans like the rest of us have.

By: edgy

edgy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:19:48 +0000

# Strick says:
Yeah. Sure DeMaurice.
The PLAYERS union wants to crack down on AGENTS…
Bullshit.
**************
Really, do you think that it was the AGENTS that pushed to reduce commissions?

By: WingT

WingT — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:07:57 +0000

Maybe somebody can prepare De Smith a list of agents that have tampered with College players and let him go ahead and let God help them so to speak – lets see ACTION De Smith

By: RB

RB — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:06:50 +0000

Uniform Athletes Agent Act-Illinois just passed it becoming the 39th state to do so. Among other things it gives schools cause of action against agents and former players.
sportsfat.com

By: Strick

Strick — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:46:17 +0000

Yeah. Sure DeMaurice.
The PLAYERS union wants to crack down on AGENTS…
Bullshit.

By: ADX

ADX — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:58:31 +0000

Karma,
These guys are’t taking money under the table to be able to buy some Ramen.
They wanna buy LandRovers.

By: numberfour

numberfour — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:50:29 +0000

i bet duh is friends with most of the offending agents and their runners.
eugene parker, anyone?
havent u seen how the obama-ites work… they will bash them… but at the end of their day they are nuzzling in bed together.
and you are poorer still, mr. taxpayer.

By: ZombieRevolution

ZombieRevolution — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:46:14 +0000

And we have no idea that Armen Keteyian was chief investigative correspondence. We thought he was a correspondent or a chief of investigative correspondence.
Funny how those things are…

By: karmathaitch

karmathaitch — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:29:49 +0000

I got an idea..
Why not give them some money to eat and live on so the temptation wont be so great.
Most of these athletes are broke as a joke when they get there, and at times dont know where the next meal is coming. Trust me, i was there for that crap!!

By: Bob S.

Bob S. — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:19:53 +0000

“God help those agents”
… and they scoff at those expecting to meet 72 virgins!

By: tacious

tacious — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:19:41 +0000

Blah blah blah blah blah… I heard this D-bag on the radio this earlier today spewing loads of BS… he’s nothing but another Shyster trial lawyer that loves to flap his gums so he can hear himself talking in circles.

By: Brian Sipe

Brian Sipe — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:09:04 +0000

De Smith doesn’t care about the rookies or College Football.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:52:50 +0000

ita a start …’bout time…

By: WingT

WingT — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:52:02 +0000

Talk is cheap De Smith – lets see the follow through.
Protecting amateur sports should be everyone’s responsibility.
If the NFLPA truly means what they say here then major kudo’s to them – let us all know how we can help you NFLPA

By: HawgNSonsTV2

HawgNSonsTV2 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:49:08 +0000

BS!

By: quadya

quadya — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:42:13 +0000

seems fair