OT - NCAA Investigating Johnny Manziel for (Allegedly) Profiting from Autographs
I know, I know, I'm sick of hearing about this kid too, but this wouldn't surprise me if it were true, given his eventful offseason.
August 5th, 2013 at 10:41 AM ^
I know, I know, I'm sick of hearing about this kid too, but this wouldn't surprise me if it were true, given his eventful offseason.
August 5th, 2013 at 10:41 AM ^
What's Manziel's motivation here? His family is already loaded, and he was surely aware that the action was against NCAA regs.
On the other hand, how does the NCAA confirm this? Do they just accept the testimonies of those supposedly there? It's not like they have any authority to subpeona bank records or anything. If such testimony is sufficient, it seems like it'd be easy for a couple people to invent a story about any player they didn't like.
I think they could get his bank records as he is a current athlete. He could refuse to comply, but then he's not going to be playing much football.
From what I can see on the NCAA's website, violating the "cooperative principle" has pretty vague consequences. I'm not sure I've heard of a case where a player lost eligability for telling the NCAA to take a hike, or if that has come up to date.
I would also be interested in seeing how it would play out if the bank account was a joint account with his parents (which based on what's been said about the family's wealth I would imagine is the case). All he would need to make a case that he is "fully cooperating" and not have to turn over the statements is have his parents tell the NCAA off.
August 5th, 2013 at 11:22 AM ^
He walked away from his remaining eligibility to avoid the cooperative principle.
Just because his family may have money does not mean he is opposed to making more money especially his own. Especially if the reports are true that the amount was in the 5 figure range.
Some of the world's most wealthiest people are driven to make that extra cent at all costs.
If Manziel gets caught, do you think that will hurt his NFL stock more...i.e. How in the hell did you get caught by THEM (NCAA)...
Emmert does what the college presidents want him to do. When he stops, he'll be fired.
I agree that it should be investigated. And I have no real knowledge about how these things work except in the context of people taking on financial aid for school but...
Could he have been taking out loans for all those things? If I'm a bank, I'd be willing to bet Richardson is gonna make back the money to pay for all that stuff, and he'd be willing to sign up at a really high interest rate.
What a trainwreck!
are loaded. He already has expensive cars, electronics, etc. from his parent's money soooooo
Agreed. I think the $10,000 jockstrap problem is a big reason the NCAA doesn't let players sell their own stuff. I think the whole thing could be mitigated quite a bit if the NCAA set up a clearinghouse type thing with set prices for certain items, through which players could sell stuff and get the money when they graduate or turn pro.
Guaranteed that if they just open the floodgates to sell things, boosters at various schools (cough Alabama cough) will pull kids aside during recruiting and let them know there's a $10,000 check with their name on it as soon as they sign that LOI if they happen to have a spare practice-used sock lying around.
August 5th, 2013 at 11:16 AM ^
The only reason Ohio didn't get popped for this very thing during Tatgate was Pryor suddenly decided to go pro and enter the Supplemental Draft, which put him out of reach of the NCAA investigation.
August 5th, 2013 at 11:09 AM ^
..until I read the transcript of the NCAA investigator carefully walking Tressel through his testimony, pushing him back on-message when he got our of control and the truth threatened to slip out, even going off record when necessary to get him back on track. Tressel couldn't possibly have had better counsel...but it was the person assigned to interrogate him.
It's rare that we get that kind of inside view of an investigation, and for me it was an eye-opener.
Athletes should be allowed to make any money on the free market that they want, just like any other student can. That being said, Manziel is a walking advertisement for making the Heisman "upperclassmen only."
i maybe alone on this but i really hope he wins the Heisman again this year.
You rooting for the Heat to threepeat as well?
Only if Juwan is still on the roster.
I hope so too. I think all the problems about him are overblown. So he likes to party. What 20 year old in college doesn't? JFF is the truth.
The story should be less about the usefulness of NCAA rules and more about how stupid Manziel has to be to do something like this.
or gets arrested or gets in a wreck or ...
SEC East has a winning record against the West. Alabama is the best team in the conference. The next three are in the East.
Because it appears there's about to be a train wreck up in there.
A few years down the road, I could see a "30 for 30" on Johnny Football, going the same route as Todd Marinovich. Hope he can pull it together.
It's been fun taking shots at OSU, but even then I thought getting busted for trading autographs for tattoos was ridiculous.
With the current lawsuits against the NCAA, the fact that they are making a huge deal about a player making money off of his own signature is such a double edged sword. Does NASA punish astronauts for autographs? Why the hell can the NCAA suck money out of these athletes and get mad when the kids make money on their own?
That isn't really what Ohio State got busted for. You left out the part about lying and covering it up.
See, I've always thought that the reason it was covered up was that Jim Tressel, like many of us, thought that it was a stupid rule not worth ruining a kid's career over.