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Is Johnny Manziel toast?

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OTL -- NCAA investigating Johnny Manziel for profiting from autographs - ESPN

The NCAA is investigating to determine if last year's Heisman winner Johnny "football" Manziel violated NCAA Bylaw 12.5.2.1. According to the latest reports, Manziel has worked with at least 3 separate autograph borkers and signed over 4000 items. The key now is to determine if Manziel was paid to do so. If found guilty of violating the bylaw, Manziel could lose his college eligibility. He would also be ineligible for the NFL draft for a period of 18 months.

If the allegations are true, it would appear that Johnny Football has royally screwed himself.
 
Why is it OK for colleges and the NCAA to profit on athletes but the athletes themselves cannot receive compensation?

Who gets rich off having Manziel's picture and likeness on Playstation and XBOX games?

Who gets rich off Manziel's name on T A&M jerseys?

Why can't a player sign an autograph for $? (Not saying that he did.)

Why are students who receive academic scholarships from colleges and universities allowed to receive compensation, but student-athletes aren't?

The answer, in part, and common link to every question is: NCAA
 
Not liking the rules is not really relevant when it comes to breaking the rules. You may think the laws against smoking pot are stupid...doesnt mean you wont go to jail if you get busted for it.

I played college ball back in the 80's. Ouch...hurts to even type that. A scholarship was an opportunity to have someone pay for your college and lay football and MAYBE if you are good enough play at the next level. The vast VAST majority of college football players will never see semi-pro ball, let alone the NFL. College football is a business but it is supposed to be about the student athlete first and foremost. If you are good enough to get a full ride scholarship then you should embrace that, respect that, and be grateful for the opportunities that will provide you. The schools invest time, money and resources recruiting players and paying for the programs. As good as someone like Johnny Manziel is, he will never be worth as much to the school as the school has been to him.
 
OTL -- NCAA investigating Johnny Manziel for profiting from autographs - ESPN

The NCAA is investigating to determine if last year's Heisman winner Johnny "football" Manziel violated NCAA Bylaw 12.5.2.1. According to the latest reports, Manziel has worked with at least 3 separate autograph borkers and signed over 4000 items. The key now is to determine if Manziel was paid to do so. If found guilty of violating the bylaw, Manziel could lose his college eligibility. He would also be ineligible for the NFL draft for a period of 18 months.

If the allegations are true, it would appear that Johnny Football has royally screwed himself.

I don't know if the young man is toast - he's certainly not very level-headed, but then lots of young men aren't.

What I do know, for an absolute fact, is that Americans, spurned on by their media, love to fixate on a person and build them up to unimaginable heights and once that person is at their pinnacle, the media sends out their investigative reporters to rip to shreds that person's life and tear them back down off the mountain. I consider it a form of mental illness.
 
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Why is it OK for colleges and the NCAA to profit on athletes but the athletes themselves cannot receive compensation?

Who gets rich off having Manziel's picture and likeness on Playstation and XBOX games?

Who gets rich off Manziel's name on T A&M jerseys?

Why can't a player sign an autograph for $? (Not saying that he did.)

Why are students who receive academic scholarships from colleges and universities allowed to receive compensation, but student-athletes aren't?

The answer, in part, and common link to every question is: NCAA

They do receive compensation.
 
Hopefully, Manziel will challenge that in court and the eventual result will be the end of the slave system of labor in the NCAA.

Slave system??? Oh those poor athletes, all they get is a very valuable college education that most people would kill to have for free, plus room and board. Man, they have it rough, especially considering that they're forced to be there and all.
 
Slave system??? Oh those poor athletes, all they get is a very valuable college education that most people would kill to have for free, plus room and board. Man, they have it rough, especially considering that they're forced to be there and all.

Not only a college education but media exposure to get noticed by the NFL.
 
If you are good enough to get a full ride scholarship then you should embrace that, respect that, and be grateful for the opportunities that will provide you. The schools invest time, money and resources recruiting players and paying for the programs. As good as someone like Johnny Manziel is, he will never be worth as much to the school as the school has been to him.

And if you're good enough to work at (insert company here), you should embrace and respect that and be grateful for the free food you get every once in a while, and the tuition reimbursement and free employee parking. Because no matter how good an employee you are, you'll never be worth as much to (insert company here) as (insert company here) has been to you.



Johnny Manziel and the NCAA’s prison economy. - Slate Magazine
 
he should be able to do that. everybody else is making money off of him.
 
I'd be fine with prospect athletes getting paid money if they disaccociate football from college and create a minor league for the NFL that the top high school athletes can go to right out of high school instead of college.

Or, how about giving college athletes a choice: They can have, say a $10K/year stipend, but in exchange they have to pay for their college and room and board on their own.
 
I really hope this blows up. Its time people took a look at college sports and realized that they really dont belong in Universities the way football and basketball are today.
 
I really hope this blows up. Its time people took a look at college sports and realized that they really dont belong in Universities the way football and basketball are today.

I agree with that 100%
 
I'd be fine with prospect athletes getting paid money if they disaccociate football from college and create a minor league for the NFL that the top high school athletes can go to right out of high school instead of college.

Or, how about giving college athletes a choice: They can have, say a $10K/year stipend, but in exchange they have to pay for their college and room and board on their own.

the Fair market value for the average FBS football player is 137,357 per year and men's basketball player is 289,031. That's average! So a Johnny Manziel would probably be commanding much closer to at least 500k to a million if he received his fair market value. Even assuming that all the money just goes into a pool and players are paid out the same salary we're not talking chump change.

Oh...so people know how the study was done...it used a comparison to the NBA and NFL on what % of revenue they receive. Baskeball players collectively would receive 6.2 billion dollars. By team...the fairmarket value of say of say a lousiville basketball player would be around 1.5 million.

In football the top programs such as Texas/Michagan/Alabama etc would receive around 500k. Of course that is average once again...lifetime backups vs starters, QB's vs kickers and you would probably see the Manziels of the world making a lot more.
 
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the Fair market value for the average FBS football player is 137,357 per year and men's basketball player is 289,031. That's average! So a Johnny Manziel would probably be commanding much closer to at least 500k to a million if he received his fair market value. Even assuming that all the money just goes into a pool and players are paid out the same salary we're not talking chump change.

Oh...so people know how the study was done...it used a comparison to the NBA and NFL on what % of revenue they receive. Baskeball players collectively would receive 6.2 billion dollars. By team...the fairmarket value of say of say a lousiville basketball player would be around 1.5 million.

In football the top programs such as Texas/Michagan/Alabama etc would receive around 500k. Of course that is average once again...lifetime backups vs starters, QB's vs kickers and you would probably see the Manziels of the world making a lot more.

Players are currently paid a lot more than chump change. That tuition and room & board ain't cheap. If that's not enough for them, then they're free to not go.
 
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Players are paid a lot more than chump change. That tuition and room & board ain't cheap.

What is it compared to what their fair market value is?

I'm not saying there's no value to free tuition/tutors/room and board etc. but compared to what value they bring it...primarily at the top programs it is chump change.


It's not about what they get from the university...it's about what their talents are actually worth. College football is a business...there's a reason SEC coaches make millions of dollars a year.....it's a pretty ****ed up system because the main component the players are the least compensated in the massive money making scheme.
 
What is it compared to what their fair market value is?

I'm not saying there's no value to free tuition/tutors/room and board etc. but compared to what value they bring it...primarily at the top programs it is chump change.


It's not about what they get from the university...it's about what their talents are actually worth. College football is a business...there's a reason SEC coaches make millions of dollars a year.....it's a pretty ****ed up system because the main component the players are the least compensated in the massive money making scheme.

It doesn't matter. If they're not happy with the compensation (full ride to college), then they don't have to go. They can take their talents elsewhere.
 
Players are currently paid a lot more than chump change. That tuition and room & board ain't cheap. If that's not enough for them, then they're free to not go.

Seems to me that that shouldnt preclude them from getting money when the university sells their likeness or name for a profit, like a Johnny Manziel jersey. Manziel will never see money from that. Manziel is free to sign jerseys for the NCAA to sell, but he cant sell his own autograph. Nike would love to have him in a commercial. But he's not allowed, because the University gets paid to wear Adiddas and Manziel isnt allowed to wear Nike. How is that right?
 
Seems to me that that shouldnt preclude them from getting money when the university sells their likeness or name for a profit, like a Johnny Manziel jersey. Manziel will never see money from that. Manziel is free to sign jerseys for the NCAA to sell, but he cant sell his own autograph. Nike would love to have him in a commercial. But he's not allowed, because the University gets paid to wear Adiddas and Manziel isnt allowed to wear Nike. How is that right?

They don't sell college jerseys with players' names on them. Anywhere. So no one has ever bought a Johnny Manziel jersey. They may have a jersey with his current number on it, but that number has been worn by many players and will be worn by many in the future, so its not a Manziel jersey.

And if the university is selling Manziel autographed memorabilia, I would ask, why is he giving his autograph for the university to sell? He's not forced to do that.
 
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It doesn't matter. If they're not happy with the compensation (full ride to college), then they don't have to go. They can take their talents elsewhere.

my thoughts exactly. They get free room and board, free tuition and books, free tutoring if they need help and, if they are at one of the "big money" schools, they get free national exposure of their talents.
 
As with almost every one of these kinds of cases...the time to complain about the rules/system is BEFORE you break them and not after you get caught. If the allegations are true....he knew the rules and he knowingly broke them. doesn't matter what you think of the system, you can't get around that.
 
As with almost every one of these kinds of cases...the time to complain about the rules/system is BEFORE you break them and not after you get caught. If the allegations are true....he knew the rules and he knowingly broke them. doesn't matter what you think of the system, you can't get around that.


Much like the civil rights battles in the 50s and 60s, sometimes you've got to break the rules to change them. The NCAA has no interest in actually cutting into their revenue stream, and the athletes are only around for a few years.
 
It doesn't matter. If they're not happy with the compensation (full ride to college), then they don't have to go. They can take their talents elsewhere.


Haha! Like the majority of big time college football players care about their full rides. They go to college programs because that's the only real pathway to actually getting compensated for what they do...and the NCAA milks them for all their worth before before they are allowed to leave and get paid paid fair market value. Let me guess...you consider yourself a free market guy..well collegiate sports and the NFL are not the free market they are monopolies and act like it.
 
That'a a pretty blatant violation and leaves me wondering how anyone could allow that to happen in a position of authority
 
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