It’s the hot topic of the final week of the offseason. Agents have been paying college players with remaining eligibility.
It’s actually been going on for years. The Reggie Bush scandal apparently opened the NCAA’s eyes to the problem, prompting the pursuit of players who have received money.
But the problem is complicated, and each of the various players have a role in fixing it. We explore the subject in our latest item for SportingNews.com.
How about getting rid of these SCUMBAG agents…
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“It’s actually been going on for years.”
As eveybody with a pulse knows. The solution is not an asy one, but has to be done. You have to love Florio’s soapbox/filler posts.
Funny that the agents are the whole problem. They are a problem, but the players deserve equal share of the blame ad well as the universities and coaches. Coaches like Callipari in basketball and Bobby Bowden create an environment in which there is little to no discipline for their players, especially the players who are vital to winning.
To me, the coaches should be held accountable as well as the players. If theNCAA is going to hold players like Reggie Bush Accountable , they should do something to Pete Carroll other than welcome him back to the college ranks with open arms after he fails in NFL.
Your post says this has been going on for years, but suggests that the NCAA was unaware of it. Why would their eyes have to be opened to something everyone on earth knows is going on? Ridiculous.
You so-called journalists should stop defending the indefensible. Objectivity is dead.
Walter Cronkite or George Plimpton wouldn’t piss down any of your throats, if your hearts were on fire.
# mattgso says: July 23, 2010 12:01 PM
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I didn’t either. The Sporting News is a worthless rag, and their web site isn’t much better.
On topic. There’s an easy solution. If an agent gets caught paying college players, bar him from the NFL for life. A no tolerance policy is the best way to go in this situation.
I suggest an open season for two or three weeks in the fall. Of course the agents would have to be adult males and no single hunter would be allowed to harvest more than 3 in a season.
Raiders757 says: July 23, 2010 12:41 PM
“There’s an easy solution. If an agent gets caught paying college players, bar him from the NFL for life. A no tolerance policy is the best way to go in this situation.”
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But for the most part these are “marketing agents” who work on endorsement deals for the players but don’t negotiate their NFL contracts. Therefore these agents don’t deal with the NFL. Agents who negotiate NFL contracts have to be ok’d by the NFLPA and can be suspended/banned, but these guys are outside that system. That is why you would have to punish the player to have any teeth against this in the pros.
You start pulling peoples right to be an agent in the NFL and all current clients can no longer be represented by you if you break the rules: and this “problem” ends tomorrow.
I think everyone has some great ideas about how to fix the agent and player problems, but how about fixing or re-writing some of them old 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s NCAA rules to the current 2000’s? It’s so much money being made that the Football and Basketball players are paying for their scholar ships 10 times its worth! Before you can even get to the agent player situation, I think you need to try and fix the economic situation with players, coaches, universities and the NCAA first!
Oh yes, as for Coach Saban of Alabama calling the Agents pimps and TV man Dick Vitel calling the players prostitutes! I guess that means the NCAA along with the Universities are Slave Masters and Plantation owners!!!!! I just don’t know how you born breaded Americans can’t see the sabotage in the camouflaged…..
great players will always get paid ,if the agents cant get to the player the runners will ,if not the runner then the kids best friend will pass money top his friend and as long as its cash its hareder to trace its more he said she said
Make agents have a license to represent which will be revoked for things such as paying players. similiar to a BAR exam as well.