until a player has exhausted their eligibility to release their awards/merchandise to them??

Absolutely not. Can't let a few fucktards ruin everyone's accomplishments.

Only if the compliance office feels it can't trust the players to follow the rules.

enigmaax;616167 wrote:Absolutely not. Can't let a few fucktards ruin everyone's accomplishments.

To play devils advocate, isn't that better than allowing a few players to potentilally ruin an entire season??

se-alum;616188 wrote:To play devils advocate, isn't that better than allowing a few players to potentilally ruin an entire season??

No, that's what the compliance department is for. Athletes wore their college-issued apparel on campus all the time back in the day. It was good for them (particularly the guys that may have come from disadvantaged households that probably needed the stuff), it was good for school spirit and as long as there weren't any screw-ups it wasn't a problem.

se-alum;616188 wrote:To play devils advocate, isn't that better than allowing a few players to potentilally ruin an entire season??

Sure, if you are talking about kindergarteners. Can't assume everyone is that stupid and you can't treat everyone like a dumb kid, just in case. They're all adults.

No.

Those sorts of things are earned and nice to be able to wear/show off

ccrunner609;616251 wrote:no and those players should be able to do with it what they want. THe mistake these guys made was that they didnt have their parents sell it for them and send them the money.

Heck they could of told them that they had no idea Mom was selling their stuff for $, they could of got some booster to pay alot more then a few hundreds bucks that way.

Nope, the mistake was selling stuff to an entity that got raided by the FBI. I didn't realize the FBI worked for the NCAA and had to report stuff like this, not only isn't this under their jurisdiction, but also this isn't even a criminal endevour. No crime of any kind was commited, let alone a federal crime, why should the FBI care?

No. Most players would not do what these 5 OSU players did (hopefully).

No. I expect players to follow the rules.

No. To me, these were the players personal possessions and were free to do with as they pleased. The only issue is if they autographed them, etc. as they'd only be making money off their notoriety.

Think about this, the players at the bowl game will get swag. What's to differentiate if they sell that for cash? Some players are getting XBox360s (Okla State and Arizona), iPods (UCF & UGA), etc. What's to stop them from just selling it for some extra cash, straight up? some are getting gift cards with an implicit cash value (Best Buy seems to be the common giveaway).

Sykotyk

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