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God forbid the players who put their lives on the line get a few hundred bucks the same night they make the NCAA and tv networks millions of dollars right?
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LSU Investigating Whether Odell Beckham Jr. Handed Out Real Money to Players After National Championship Game
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God forbid the players who put their lives on the line get a few hundred bucks the same night they make the NCAA and tv networks millions of dollars right?
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I can't tell if you are calling the investigation stupid or Odell giving players a bit of cash in celebration stupid.
give them money, don't give them money in front of a bunch of cameras
The NCAA is shit but honestly OBJ should know better than to be doing this in front of a zillion cameras. He knows exactly that he's jeopardizing their college careers to give them cash. Like come on.
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Oh okay. Yeah doing it in front of cameras is dumb, but the fact that it's even an issue is even more dumb.
Shouldnt of done it in front of the cameras.
LSU isnt stupid they're already under some shit when one of their Boosters embezzled from a childrens cancer charity and gave the cash to a prominent players father back in 2015.
LSU isnt stupid they're already under some shit when one of their Boosters embezzled from a childrens cancer charity and gave the cash to a prominent players father back in 2015.
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For doing it in front of cameras? Yeah. But the NCAA is absolute bullshit for this to be a problem in the first place.
The indignation universities show toward paying the athletes who bring in millions of dollars to their schools is absurd. Pretending these kids are all students instead of minor league NFL prospects who can suffer career-ending injuries before they're even allowed to collect a paycheck is grotesque.
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No the "Student-Athletes" are not allowed to have any gifts or compensation from anyone unless it's authorized by the NCAA. Especially if the person doing the give has some form of conflict of interest.
For example Mike Golic is a radio personality for ESPN and his son played for Notre Dame. While his son played for Notre Dame he couldn't take his son and his friends out to dinner because he worked for ESPN and that would have qualified as a possible rules violation.
Its idiotic.
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The dinner itself would have been a rules violation. Players are not allowed to accept free meals. Not even from the University cafeteria.
I know this happened in New Orleans but did Odell expect them to start stripping? It's all about the unmarked envelope like a mafia wedding.
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The Odell shit is now all over the sports radio this morning.
Literally every station i have heard is laughing at the NCAA and the absurdity of the situation given the fact that the players are getting AT MOST a few hundred bucks while the NCAA and tv networks just made millions.
How is this real life?
Literally every station i have heard is laughing at the NCAA and the absurdity of the situation given the fact that the players are getting AT MOST a few hundred bucks while the NCAA and tv networks just made millions.
How is this real life?
It's a couple hundred bucks at most
Dude bought Beats for their entire staff and players. Nobody thought twice
Fix college football, goddammit
Dude bought Beats for their entire staff and players. Nobody thought twice
Fix college football, goddammit
Odell is an idiot for doing this so everyone would know. Do it at a private party or something so it doesn't get out with this amount of ease it has right now. I was just talking to a boss of mines about how terrible the NCAA is but rules are rules.
Even during the game they were talking about how the LSU quarterback has already graduated, but takes a couple of online classes to remain a "student" there while actually spending all of his time on football
If it was after the game, what the fuck is the NCAA gonna do. Honestly, I know Odell isn't trying to do this, but this conversation needs to keep happening to show how idiotic the NCAA is
The private party would have been a rules violation. Like, really, the football team can't even have an unauthorized pizza party under NCAA rules.
Yeah the NCAA is dumb as shit. Odell should have just not given em cash. Maybe after their done playing get them all gifts or something unless the NCAA is so evil that they can't except shit even after out of College Football. Odell I think could have taken pictures with them, IDK. This whole thing is idiotic.
Stupid in every direction, but especially on the part of OBJ. He knows that he can't do what he's doing, and he's doing it in front of 300 cameras.
But yeah, fuck the NCAA, too. I love college football, but when a coach gets a cool half mil to play and win a game, how can his players get nothing? It has to change, and I hope players strike eventually in mass as they did at Northwestern.
But yeah, fuck the NCAA, too. I love college football, but when a coach gets a cool half mil to play and win a game, how can his players get nothing? It has to change, and I hope players strike eventually in mass as they did at Northwestern.
FUCKING LOL. How stupid can OBJ be? Don't get me wrong--the NCAA are fucking crooks, but until we have an actual change, how on earth could you be so stupid to do that on national TV? Hopefully, for LSU's sake, the only players who received that money are NFL-bound this spring anyway.
Detach the NFL's minor league from education. Pay the players. It's silly pretending this is anything other than what it is.
This.
It's against the rules, even if those rules are stupid. You don't do it.
Weed should be legal everywhere, you don't light up in front of the police in a State where it's illegal though.
OBJ is an idiot for doing that in front of cameras.
People absolutely care about the money...or this wouldn't be a thing.
Can't he make them look dumb by saying 'I was giving some gifts to friends, that's all, prove I wasn't.'
Nuff said, case closed. Bubububu their scholarships. If it were allowed Trevor Lawrence could have a $1mm shoe deal today, and could easily be clearing seven figures a year making TV ads for Carolina used car dealerships.
Fuck the NCAA.