Ohio and South Carolina cleared of any autograph violations.

I'm not sure what you read, but they are not "cleared" of violations. The schools claim that they are cleared of violations after talking with the respective athletes. It does not seem like a thorough investigation has been launched, which would provide sufficient evidence to clear them of any wrongdoing (I'm not sure that such an investigation is really needed, but I think you're making a gross oversimplification). 

Imagine the following scenario: 

Judge: Did you do it?

Bank Robber: Nope.

Judge: Cleared!

That's what happened. 

Nothing will come of this even with Manziel. The NCAA will be an even bigger bitch about enforcing its rules on this one with the O'Bannon case going on. If a kid can make a buck on his own signature, I say good for him/her.

No justice in this world

it also duplicates the link provided in the thread below, titled "other stars may be caught..."

You should delete this thread.

for signing autographs? How about proof that Lewan did, for example. As far as I am concerned, this is just so much bs.

If I'm a college coach, autographs are going to become much harder to come by.

I still can't help but wonder why more people are not questioning the motivation of the bottom-feeder that brought it up.

Kinda awkward timing with the UM fan day stuff coming up this weekend

Schools: "Hey your autograph is out there... was money formally exchanged or sent to a bank account tied to your name?"

Player: "No he gave me straight cas......"

Schools: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH say no more.  we're good."

"cleared"

By themselves.

a good track record of doing thorough investigations - so there is that

*Ohio State

I was worried our friendly Bobcats were in trouble for a second

at Michigan Stadium has always occurred. And it will continue. I have a Charles Woodson Heisman card signed by him shortly after he won the award. I didn't even present the card to him, a friend with access did. 

I have Tom Brady's signature in a book about the 1997 championship season along with dozens of other signatures. I have Bo's actual signature on a book he wrote. Of those, Bo was the only one compensated for his signature because he signed a book ghost written in his name. 

Woodson was a national celebrity after he won the award. Brady was an afterthought and 6th round draft pick. 

Those three signatures might be worth something  now because of their individual achievements. 

Unless the NCAA can prove that a player specifically violated a non-compensation rule, it cannot challenge the profitability off his signature, ie, an item found autographed by Taylor Lewan on eBay, and claim that he benefitted from the sale of that item. You'd have to document the signing occurrence by a witness who could testify about the compensation. 

Heck kids sign balls for other kids at the Little League World Series, and not even the umpires get paid to work those games. I doubt anyone would want an umpire's signature. But they do ask middle school kids for them. 

he was interviewed by the Charlotte Observer in a report  today about his NCAA tweets that seemed to hold the NCAA up to ridicule about its hypocritical position and false denial  that as an organization it doesn't benefit from the sale of products with the likeness or or representative images of college players of the member schools it regulates. 

Bilas, who is an ESPN college basketball commentator, told the newspaper that he went to the NCAA web site and checked out player names to see if their uniform jersey numbers came up after he was directed there by a post that seemed to contain a photo reference to this occurrence. And he didn't realize that you could look up a player's name and get their corresponding jersey number, until he did so after punching in Johnny Manziel's name, Jadevon Clowney, AJ McCarron along with Noell Norbert.

What gave rise to the controversy, he said, isn't the fact that the NCAA sells jerseys of popular college players, but whoever runs the NCAA web site shut down the search capability after Bilas tweet to his some 450,000 followers. 

Bilas said he has no qualms with the NCAA profiting from this, what he challenges  is the organization's unjustifiable position agaianst the revenue drivers, the players. Everyone else in the college game is getting paid at market rate, execept those most responsible for the marketing. And he thinks athletes should be able to profit from their activities in any way they can without restriction. 

He contends, and I agree, that the only reason the NCAA has been able to prevent this issue from being previously overturned is because the courts have continually deferred their rulings in favor of the argument that college is an educational pursuit and sportsis a part of that, and therefore players are amateurs not professionals. 

Ulitmately, he said, the NCAA is trying to defend the impossible, justify the unjustifiable, even to the point of lying about it in court papers in the O'Bannon case, claiming the NCAA doesn't benefit from the sale of products specific to player images and their likenesses without their consent. 

We can get a nice Devin Gardner signed Mini Helmen here...

http://www.amazon.com/GARDNER-Signed-MICHIGAN-WOLVERINES-HELMET/dp/B007…

Or a Taylor Lewan autographed Helmet here...

http://www.amazon.com/Taylor-Michigan-Lights-Signed-Football/dp/B00A6RK…

or a Shane Morris autographed football pylon here...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Michigan-SHANE-MORRIS-Signed-Autographed-Footba…

or a Devin Funchess autographed mini helmet here...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Michigan-Wolverines-DEVIN-FUNCHESS-signed-Mini-…

I could go on and on, so we should make sure to check the closets first...

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