The University of Oregon basketball team announced last week it was under NCAA investigation to determine if players were prematurely talking to agents.
Is it just me or is the whole agent talks to player/player becomes ineligible story getting repetitive and frustrating?
The college football season has barely started and Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina have all had key players miss games due to agent-related missteps.
Florida football coach Urban Meyer has banned agents from his practices, and Nick Saban has said the “pimps” are not allowed at Alabama either.
While the players are the ones getting punished, the agents are busy making money. NFL agents do not care if the NCAA player is ineligible for a game or two, as long as that player signs with the agent when the player makes millions in the NFL.
Players get punished for talking to agents, but agents can apparently do whatever they want. There is no one holding the agents accountable as they wander around campuses trying to “pimp” out student-athletes, as Saban would say.
The NCAA can’t fix this, but the NFL can. The NFL should stop working with agents who illegally contact collegiate athletes and help correct the epidemic.
