Once he declared for the draft, the NCAA is out of the picture.
Fags get REAL SPECIAL treatment more than Liberals and KLINTOONS. . .
I'm not sure I understand why that would matter in relation to his website and tee shirts, though.
However, I am certain Michael Sam would not have been named Co-Defensive Player of the Year in the SEC by the Associated Press if he had been heterosexual.
Sam has only two NFL caliber skills.
He has an explosive first step off the line of scrimmage, and he drives relentlessly, with 100% effort, until the whistle blows.
But he has some terrible deficiencies.
He's too slow to play linebacker in the NFL.
He's too light and lacks the upper body strength to play Defensive End, which is what he was drafted for.
His basic tackling skills are below average.
And his basic hand skills are below average when he tries to get around an Offensive Tackle or tries to shed a blocker to tackle a runner.
If he's on the field for First Down, every team is going to run right at him.
On pass plays, if he fails to get around the OT with his first step, the OT will lock him down for 4 seconds on every play.
I don’t see anything illegal here, but clearly....yes clearly this was a plan concocted months ago.
I think Sam was fairly certain...(he had to be) that he might not fair well in the upcoming draft, or that he would fair better if he came out as a Gay. He was also probably counseled that he might have a leg up on endorsements etc.
In short, these people are very shrewd. He might have a real cult following in the Gay community because who he is.
However, bottom line. I’m of the opinion of many here that he will be a flash in the pan. At least he stands a chance playing defense, because he does the hitting. At offense he wouldn’t stand a chance. is (hitter vs hittee)
From here:
.....The entrepreneurial gene runs in their families. Weiss’s family is in commercial real estate, and Barkett’s parents operate a financial services company and are Democratic Party heavyweights. His mother, Lisa, is on the U.S.C. board of trustees...
Read the entire enlightening article for more information on how these two formerly “unknown” agents who have been in business for a year, suddenly hit the bigtime. Clearly it was all due to their hard work and amazing business savvy...LOL! This entire thing was a set-up (on both sides) from the get-go.
All that and rectal syphilis too.
Amazing. What a country! All you have to do is announce to the world that you use your reproductive apparatus in a non-standard way, and you become rich and famous, and have your own TV show.
If he signed with an agent and received money then yes it’s a violation. But nobody is going to investigate this. There are tons of nefarious extra benefits that change hands all the time that the NCAA doesn’t look into. They sure as hell aren’t going to look into this.
And if Mizzou didn’t know they wouldn’t have to forfeit anything as the student/athlete did it on their own. You would have to have institutional knowledge for them to forfeit.
sam did not sign with an agent until after his college eligibility was done....he’s on his second agent....much of this marketing in the brainchild of his agent, not sam...the first agent went to sam with a big marketing plan based on him being gay...
further- agents know about players all over the universe and under every rock or stone, so an agency in the far west signing a player in the remote northeast is not unusual....there are approximately 3x as many certified agents as there are players in the NFL so the laws of supply and demand are squarely on the prospective players side....
YOU ARE A RACIST AND A HOMOPHOBE FOR EVEN SUGGESTING THIS! I AM ASKING THAT FREEREPUBLIC FINE YOU AND RE-EDUCATE YOU AS TO THE GLORY OF THE HOMOSEXUAL MICHAEL SAM!!
Was it selling t-shirts then? Of course even if it was the area of NCAA rules it would violate is the dumb part (really why shouldn’t the players get to profit on their own names, everybody else tied to the NCAA does), and they really don’t want test against somebody who has as much public sympathy as Sam.
What next? Pink basketballs?!