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So I'm watching Friday Night Lights season 5 and there's this story line where the coach tries to get the his star player and the players father to allow all the contact from college recruiters to go through him. There seems to be a bunch of drama surrounding all the courting colleges are doing to try and recruit high school players. I guess I was wondering what the big deal is? Why are there such strict rules surrounding recruitment? Why aren't you supposed to accept any gifts or even allow recruiters to pay for a meal or anything? Why does it matter to anyone if a recruiter picks up the tab at dinner? Or even something bigger, if a college wants to buy some kid a car for playing football at their college why is that a problem?
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Jul 25, 2016 08:34
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astr0man posted:Because the NCAA is obsessed with the concept of amateurism. Really? The whole "plays a sport but doesn't get paid for it" seems like a hilariously arbitrary thing to be made into a point of differentiation. I guess the idea is that if you're not getting paid then you have to support yourself with other means thus you don't have as much time to dedicate yourself fully to the sport, so you should be in a different class than those who do get paid. However this seems somewhat moot with college kids, and really it seems like the powers that be have taken it to the point of absurdity anyway. Twilight Matrix posted:if they allow that stuff it starts to cut into the bottom line of the universities making millions from their amateur athletes as they compete with one another for top tier talent It does make sense that colleges would want to avoid a climate that leads to massive bidding wars, but it's pretty funny to see them break their own rules privately. Is the NCAA essentially controlled by the universities?
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Jul 26, 2016 20:40
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Waroduce posted:The rule is dont get caught, and thats pretty much it. I had alot of friends play big time college ball and was recruited for both baseball and football, ended up pursuing baseball at a top ten program when I was in college. They dont go too wild unless your a 5 star guy, or they are real high om you to plug a hole, but its still money, hoes and clothes. Guys got free cars and rent paid for. Look at Tunsil for instance as the most recent example. I'd certainly like to hear more about university administrations running their own pseudo-escort service and stopping just short of pimping out the co-ed members of their student body to high school kids.
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