Here's how you stop it, stiffen the penalties, target the rogue boosters, and actually pay the athletes the same thing as student workers. A $7/hour hourly wage would actually go a long way, considering these kids are putting in 80 hour weeks when you combine class and workouts/meetings.
They know the what the NCAA rules are to play college ball. Why should USC or unc or au have to pay the full price for the pay to play and the agent and student get away with it and then make millions in the NFL while the school is screwed. A student is forbidden to get money for playing college ball and he lies to the school and walks out a multi millionare while the kids left behind at the university has their dreams crushed by NCAA sancations. Either change the NCAA rules or punish the persons responsible. Right now the kids at USC are paying the price and Reggie bush is rich as hell. Put the penality where it belongs on the agent and player and not the innocent kids left behind to suffer when cam is in the NFL and the freshman player at au gets to be stuck at an impotent school. Change the rule or punnish the right people.
It's not about not allowing a person to make a business deal. Turn in your eligability and go pro. Do it by the rules and noone get hurt. No foul in making a deal to go pro and make millions. To lie and run away to go make millions and leave others to pay the price by not getting to play in bowl games is wrong. The agents are the serpent in the tree tempting the players with money and then everyone running for the NFL is what's wrong. Want to pay to play then go pro and don't ruin a university football program because of your greed. What is wrong with holding these players to the promise they made the university to abide by NCAA rules.
I'm not saying that what Newton may have done in this case is right. But you're talking about criminalizing the breaking of a sports association's by-laws. IMO, that's nonsense. The country has enough of a criminal problem as it is. As for the agents tempting the kids with money, it goes with the territory. NCAA football is a multi-billion dollar business, and the kids you're talking about know it. This isn't the 60's, (even though cheating went on in the 60's as well). All of this noise is about the schools and the NCAA maintaining control of their workforce, and hoarding the cash for themselves. I don't blame a kid that wants to get paid, especially when it's a kid that's doing what Cam Newton is doing. If Auburn wins the title, what's Newton worth to Auburn in the real world? Amazing that so many staunch capitalists believe in repressing working people in the name of what they love. All Newton was doing, if he's guilty, was practicing Capitalism.
I would also have no problem with being able to sue, for example, when this kind of thing happens, if the kid in question had the freedom to seek employment that every other American seems to hold. But when the NFL can put an arbitrary number on the age when a kid can seek employment in the NFL, in order to stabilize the workforce for their minor league system (the colleges), then what's the kid to do?
He plays by the rules like everyone else. He has no right to cost all of the teammates he leaves behind the rest of their college carrers because he was so much more special that he had to be paid now instead of waiting his time and going pro like 99% of the rest of the NFL players did. Think if your kid was a freshman at au and cam hauled azz for the pros and your kid didn't get to enjoy the bowl games and such because cam had to get his money and screw everyone else. Until agents are punnished then this will not change. I do agree these kids should get some sort of prediem because they can't even afford to take a girl out to eat with all the restrictions on them and compensation but that doesn't make screwing an entire program right
Apparently the newest rumor is that Saturday was Cam's farewell tour and the NCAA will be coming down to Auburn Tuesday, either to actually rule him ineligible or to just to tell Auburn that there is almost nothing at this point that could make them think Cam isn't getting paid. This is apparently from a poster on Bama online that has apparently not been wrong so far with anything else related to Cam. I guess we'll see if there's any fireworks tomorrow.
I know that the Feds are supposed to be there Tues to interview Cecil and his supposed admission of that there was a “pay for play” arrangement he wanted. Where it goes from there we will all hopefully find out then.
Again, Auburn itself is the only institution that can declare him ineligible. I will believe it when I see it, I hope your right, because if they cheated, they need to be hammered.
Yeah, this was second hand, so I wasn't sure on if they were going down to tell cam that they've finished the investigation and he's guilty, or if they're just going to talk to Cecil again and urge Auburn that benching him would most likely be in their best interests.
