Confession of a fomer NFL Agent

[lukethedrifter]

Due to the paying of players, all major programs should have to forfeit all games won. Ever. Also, every Heisman Trophy should be returned.


Also, being an agent like this guy was seems really emasculating.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Paying players would simply ensure we have Alabama, Texas, Florida et al get all the best players, and all the smaller programs fight for scraps even more than they already do.

If you limit the amount...like a hard limit of 1 MIL dollars/year or something like that with a cap of 20-25K a player, then it would actually do the opposite.

Re programs losing money... if they're losing money on football and basketball, then I don't think they've got a fighting shot anyway.

[cpebbles]

This wouldn't be a problem if everyone would just accept that college sports suck. Does 95% of the sports-following public also support the local amateur theater? No, because amateur actors suck.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

cpebbles' lunacy aside, if you force them to pay players any significant amount, you're going to see a lot of people angry that their favorite university is either hemorrhaging money or dropping football because they can't afford it. There's only a couple dozen programs that make money off of football as it is.

[TheoSqua]

cpebbles' lunacy aside, if you force them to pay players any significant amount, you're going to see a lot of people angry that their favorite university is either hemorrhaging money or dropping football because they can't afford it. There's only a couple dozen programs that make money off of football as it is.

That's why you let the agents pay the guys. Just like now. It works fine. The NCAA throws out a few fines here or there to keep up the PR of wanting to keep the game clean, and it prevents agents from going overboard. But it's not like what the guy in the article is describing is somehow ruining the game right now.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

cpebbles' lunacy aside, if you force them to pay players any significant amount, you're going to see a lot of people angry that their favorite university is either hemorrhaging money or dropping football because they can't afford it.

So, the fact that they're paying coaches 1 million dollars plus easily is okay, yet you can't take out another million dollars a year (or less whatever that number is agreed upon to allow players from all sports the ability to go home on holidays, eat out, etc) and

[lukethedrifter]

cpebbles' lunacy aside, if you force them to pay players any significant amount, you're going to see a lot of people angry that their favorite university is either hemorrhaging money or dropping football because they can't afford it.

So, the fact that they're paying coaches 1 million dollars plus easily is okay, yet you can't take out another million dollars a year (or less whatever that number is agreed upon to allow players from all sports the ability to go home on holidays, eat out, etc) and

They got 'laundry money' when my Dad was an SEC football player in the '50s. I'm not sure if that is relevant to anything.

[phins]

Paying players would simply ensure we have Alabama, Texas, Florida et al get all the best players, and all the smaller programs fight for scraps even more than they already do.

If you limit the amount...like a hard limit of 1 MIL dollars/year or something like that with a cap of 20-25K a player, then it would actually do the opposite.

Re programs losing money... if they're losing money on football and basketball, then I don't think they've got a fighting shot anyway.

I don't agree with either point. More schools lose money in football than you think.