“LeBron James” gifts the entire OSU Football Team Beats Headphones
Curious, what is the rule for individuals to give players gifts? Is this the equivalent of Bobby Kotick paying a few million to send the team on their annual trip?
December 26th, 2019 at 10:52 PM ^
If uofm is still bothering to follow the rules, we are chumps.
December 27th, 2019 at 12:43 AM ^
Thank you!
December 27th, 2019 at 6:42 AM ^
December 27th, 2019 at 9:49 AM ^
It is incredibly frustrating to have some of these college football programs break the rules, get sanctions/punished for it, then end up being better off because of it. I don't think Tressel was in any danger of being fired, until those allegations came up and he lost his job. Then what happens?...Oh they just land Urban Meyer, no big deal.
December 27th, 2019 at 2:23 PM ^
How is this breaking a rule? I guarantee you have zero idea what the NCAA rules are.
Is it against the rules when Booster Bob Kotick spends millions sending the entire football team on a trip every year?
You are a dope!
December 27th, 2019 at 10:31 AM ^
Or so far ahead. Depends on where you put winning football games in your hierarchy of things that define what matters to you.
but, yes, for winning football games, it is infuriating, and I’d argue following the rules in this case is less moral than breaking them. Like Cool Hand Luke said, calling it your job don’t make it right.
December 27th, 2019 at 1:04 PM ^
Good lord this is tiring. These are not mutually exclusive concepts. Nothing prevents a bagmanee from actually going to school. This is loser mentality. Hiding behind the perception of superior academics (OSU is a pretty good school too) to give cover to a football program that refuses to get out of the 1980s is disingenuous.
December 27th, 2019 at 1:54 PM ^
If cheating to win doesn't bother you, you aren't living right. I personally could not separate cheating for gain at one thing in my life without it affecting my whole life.
A question for you guys that condone cheating...do you guys cheat? I'm fairly confident a decent number of you guys do not cheat at 'life', and yet you want others to cheat. At life. So that you can feel better about 'them' winning. Again, you're not living right.
Look, I want us to win just as much as any of us, but if I knew that we were cheating to win, it would bother me to no end.
December 27th, 2019 at 2:07 PM ^
By far the best response in this thread. Thank you sir and go blue!
December 27th, 2019 at 3:50 PM ^
You ever smoke weed before it was legal? If so, you "cheated" at life. Just because a rule exists, doesn't mean it makes sense to follow it.
The writing has been on the wall for a long time now. There is too much money being thrown at college football these days. It's complete bullshit that Jim Delaney and other execs make millions while the superstar athletes get an education they don't even use. The whole system is a perverse anachronism. Everyone realizes this now, which is why no one really cares that Chase Young took money from a booster. With the rules changing soon, there's even less of a need to pretend anymore.
December 27th, 2019 at 2:22 PM ^
No shit. We could use a little Nick Nolte action and some new John deer tractors. If it gets us on par with the OSU’s and Clemson’s of the world than giddy up. I’m tired of the so called hi road.
December 27th, 2019 at 2:26 PM ^
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/2018/05/02/jim-harbaugh-reveals-donors-behind-um-trips/34474379/
December 27th, 2019 at 9:41 AM ^
"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'!"
December 27th, 2019 at 11:37 AM ^
You really think it is against the rules? Your stupid ass thinks it is against the rules and just widely broadcast? You are seriously that stupid?
Is it against the rules when a private donor pays for the Michigan football team to take a trip to Africa?
Tons of stupid on this blog...
December 27th, 2019 at 3:25 PM ^
yeah, in the spectrum of all the things O$U does that is illegal. This doesn't really move the meter.
December 27th, 2019 at 1:21 PM ^
I prefer "suckers" as I think it gets the level of disdain right.
December 28th, 2019 at 12:25 PM ^
What he did is not a violation so why are we so butthurt? His brand is an official sponsor of that school like the Jordan brand is ours so he is allowed to do this. Their football and basketball teams get shoes, jackets, shirts with Lebrons' logo on it that will never see the public, we whine so much about everything they do its exhausting, EXHAUSTING.
FFS people I would rather us figure out HOW to beat them when they ARE cheating than sit here with our arms crossed pouting about some f'ing headphones. We have GOT to become mentally tougher, we don't have a Warriors mentality at all.
December 26th, 2019 at 10:54 PM ^
1. Can we please stop sucking BronBron's dick? That's 2 posts about him recently now.
2. There has to be some kind of gift process in the NCAA bylaws... think of the swag bags for bowl games; that stuff can get pricey. Also, the gold pants ohio gets every year, championship rings, and even "program win" hats likely go through the compliance department.
December 26th, 2019 at 11:08 PM ^
TWO WHOLE POSTS!? AHHHHH
Dude Jacob Eason had 4, in a matter of minutes, this afternoon.
December 27th, 2019 at 8:59 AM ^
I thought it was Jaiden Eason.
December 26th, 2019 at 11:09 PM ^
Who else can Michigan dickride to a championship?
December 27th, 2019 at 7:50 AM ^
Top ten comment of the year nominee
December 26th, 2019 at 11:14 PM ^
They're gonna ride Lebron's dick to a championship.
December 26th, 2019 at 11:38 PM ^
You don't suck that dick, you ride that dick to championships
December 26th, 2019 at 11:40 PM ^
December 26th, 2019 at 11:47 PM ^
Huel needs to ride Lebron's dick back to web programmer skewl.
December 27th, 2019 at 3:43 AM ^
Can they take the classes online?
December 26th, 2019 at 11:35 PM ^
1. Agree.
2. This has got to be a violation. This is way different that standard bowl swag provided by bowl sponsors or school gifts. This is an individual not employed by the school, buying things for players. This is a violation if there ever was one.
this just in...Lebron says he is just loaning the players the headphones. Nothing to see here.
December 26th, 2019 at 11:42 PM ^
Lebron is just a family friend. Stop being so uptight.
December 27th, 2019 at 12:47 AM ^
.....so is this child killer....
December 27th, 2019 at 8:30 AM ^
Michigan players got “B1G East Co-Champ” shirts and no one complained about that gift. They are limited edition, so likely they are expensive. Maybe we’ll all take notice when the players sell them on EBay for a profit!!
Edit: should have added the “/s”
December 26th, 2019 at 11:00 PM ^
Meh. Ours goes on vacation every summer. Sounds stupid if you complain.
December 26th, 2019 at 11:02 PM ^
I wrote exactly that in my original post. That trip probably equates to $10,000+ per football player; way more than a $250 pair of headphones.
however, my question still remains open. What is the rule on providing gifts?
December 26th, 2019 at 11:07 PM ^
Not that I don't believe that anymore, everything is stupid/pointless and rules are asinine...but can say that those trips are done under educational reasoning and easily so. Like, they're so valuable and legit that Finebaum makes fun of them. This OSU shit is just more of the same..."here's some stuff for being buckeye athletes".
Again, I truly don't even care anymore but saw a space to interject on the difference.
December 27th, 2019 at 1:19 AM ^
Kids don't want South Africa, or Paris, or Rome. They want Beats headphones.
I mean... sure. Michigan is providing them with life enriching experiences that are unlike any around college football. But are we providing what really matters?
December 27th, 2019 at 9:24 AM ^
I don't know why you're being down voted - what you've said is the truth. Give the players what they want and let's go from there.
December 27th, 2019 at 11:40 AM ^
Kids don't want South Africa, or Paris, or Rome. They want Beats headphones.
This comment, while likely true, made me very sad.
December 27th, 2019 at 8:29 AM ^
One difference is that headphones are tangible assets which you could resell later for $.
December 27th, 2019 at 8:35 AM ^
They will charge $$$ for those headphones worn by starters. “Sure, they are busted and all grimey. But a kid that helped beat TSUN wore them!!”
December 27th, 2019 at 10:25 AM ^
Is it not technically different though? The international trips are funded via donations to the football program then Harbaugh and athletic program determined what to do with that money. But this is literally just direct gifts to players
December 27th, 2019 at 10:59 AM ^
Total was $850,000 according to records (for Rome)
December 27th, 2019 at 1:19 PM ^
I would think the gift for the trip was a donation to the U of M to do with what they wished. It was merely implied that was what it was for. Now headphones are a gift to the players.
The NCAA does what they want. I quit caring. I just root the teams on when they play and I am glad they represent the good guys.
Go Blue!!!!
December 26th, 2019 at 11:41 PM ^
Sounds stupid if you equate an educational trip to a professional athlete providing gifts.
sure these trips cost a ton of money, but the university goes thru a lengthy process to get these approved by the NCAA. Any school could do the same. Unless you think our trips are really helping our recruiting...
go to UofM, get to go abroad for free. Go to OSU, get to play in the CFP, meet and receive gifts from professional athletes. Hard to say what an elite high school athlete would find more attractive.
December 27th, 2019 at 10:40 AM ^
One's provided by the school and filed under academic. The other is one of the most famous professional athletes in the world and an OSU fan(not Alumni).
I dont give a shit but those things arent even close to being the same.
December 26th, 2019 at 11:03 PM ^
I think your quotes are misplaced.
December 26th, 2019 at 11:06 PM ^
Fuck LeBron,fuck adam silver and his jersey ads and fuck the buckeyes
December 26th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
And fuck the fuckin Diaz brothers!
December 26th, 2019 at 11:23 PM ^
I'll take their sister Cameron
December 27th, 2019 at 8:51 AM ^
I bury those cockroaches!
December 27th, 2019 at 8:56 AM ^
And Fuck Mobb Deep, fuck Biggie
Fuck Bad Boy as a staff, record label and as a motherfucking crew
And if you want to be down with Bad Boy, then fuck you too