I haven’t been to Miami in years, for what it’s worth.
- Bruce Feldman says Nick Saban’s threat to bar the NFL from college campuses has scouts running scared.
- As for agents, Urban Meyer asks the right question about the NFL and NFLPA: “At times I would question that, why would they care?”
- Feel free to draw your own conclusions from this.
- If you’re wondering how the hierarchy of penalties and sanctions would work in what he refers to as “Agentpalooza”, The Bylaw Blog has your answers.
- Shakin the Southland does its usual bang-up analysis with this break down of Gus Malzahn’s offense. It’s an excellent read.
- No shit, Sherlock.
- Don’t miss David Hale’s farewell to arms.
- That Derek Dooley can be quite a guy sometimes.
- And I think UT missed the boat with this decision. I bet the fan base would love to have any excuse to tear a picture of Junior’s mug in half.
I agree with Saban. If the NFL won’t do anything to reign in scouts to help the NCAA then bar them all from the major programs. Schools are being punished for things that are not their own fault.
Just pickin nits, but the NFL already reigns over scouts. We want it to rein in scouts.
I think it is more about trickle down effect than actual scouts. The scouts are good guys making a hard living on the road. Leaning on scouts by closing midweek practices to them, stopping position coach interviews etc will force NFL to draft guys they don’t know as well. They don’t want that. They crave that access.
The access is the only angle of the CFB-NFL angle colleges can control. We can’t control the agents, we can’t control who parents talk to and we can’t control if a kid gets a hankering for $20k in cash. We can only control the NFL’s access to the players. However the NFL can control the agents, the runners etc. They have the staff, the financial resources and the ability. Check out what NFL securities does when they’re investigating, it makes the NCAA look like the Keystone Cops.
Problem is, how does Saban’s idea of forcing their hand play across CFB world, both with kids and with other coaches.
The NCAA needs to put in place where it puts all Pro Sports and agents on the side of the road. That is zero contact in any form or fashion with a student athlete. Any violation merits a financial penalty and full reimbursement of the student athlete’s cost of the scholarship.
If the NCAA has allegations that certain student athletes made contact with agents in Miami, the NCAA needs to name the agents, the NFL teams, and the arrangements before they visit any campus or program.
Any investigation or inquiry by the NCAA that turns up nothing or no violations, the NCAA must pony up to the University, the program, and the conference involved a minimum of $100,000 to @ of the three.
Any agent or NFL team in violation would merit a penalty of a permanent ban from the NCAA and the conference. Minimum financial penalty…$2,000,000 to each.
This is about money…let the agents and NFL pay up.
Plus any inquiry or contact with players from the NCAA requires a fee cost…interview, tapes, evaluations, and etc.
The NCAA is the greatest sports in America. The NFL’s greed and consistent lower ratings keep this going. Make the NFL pay for player development.
I know this will be as popular as a rash but this is an area that the Congress should get involved with. Make it a federal felony to tamper with an amateur athlete in any sport, then define tampering. In the current cases 38 states have various laws trying to deal with this, it’s not working. Most of these violations involve inter-state commerce and constitute a bribe of sorts, heck lets see how fast the agents clean up their act with the FBI after their butts. Besides I’m sure the IRS can make those payment a non-deduction for the agent, if it’s an illegal expenditure (against public policy) and the kids are in danger of tax fraud if they fail to include it in their income tax return.
since agents must cross state lines to to thewir business license them through Interstate Commerce. Tamper with a kid before his third year of football is complete and you lose your license. Use fines and fees on agents to fund the program. I would set license fees high enough to keep out the rif raff.
The Nick Lamaison story should be in the media nationally as an example of what kind of guy CDD really is. If I were Nick Lamaison’s attorney we would be camped out, first at the local paper in his hometown where he was undoubtedly a star in HS, then at the local TV station, then at every regional college football mag, then at SI, then at ESPN, then at HBO Sports (a Bryant Gumbel expose) and at all major networks. Personally, I am a vindictive guy. If UT screwed my kid or my client like this, EVERYBODY in America would know about it. I have had things like this happen in cases before. When the spotlight gets turned on the cockroaches run for cover. UT would never sign another recruit from California again and it would greatly impact their recruiting everywhere before we were done. UT and DD would be begging before it was over.