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Johnny Manziel (unemployed)

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Manziel's family hired Jim Darnell, a prominent criminal defense attorney with experience dealing with the NCAA. Johnny Football was perfectly coached and prepped long before he ever walked into his NCAA sit down. It's all about the money. Just hire the best attorneys that know how to play the NCAA's game and you will walk. Jim Darnell likely cares far more about whether a family can meet his retainer than the color of a clients skin. Race had nothing to do with it.
 
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BB73 said:
Yeah, I read the story about the family history, but the fact that the family can have money makes it plausible that he's running around spending cash without getting it from autograph dealers, and that makes it tough for the NCAA.
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Totally agree... but is "the fact that the family can have money" something that might be subjective based on what people both know and believe to be true?
 
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BB73 said:
Yeah, I read the story about the family history, but the fact that the family can have money makes it plausible that he's running around spending cash without getting it from autograph dealers, and that makes it tough for the NCAA.
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Not to mention if the broker decided to drop $10K into his parents bank account for the autograph sessions it would be extremely difficult to track since they are already rich.
 
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MaliBuckeye said:
Totally agree... but is "the fact that the family can have money" something that might be subjective based on what people both know and believe to be true?
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Exactly. I seriously doubt many of the reporters that jumped on Thad Gibson's "new" car story had a clue about his family or background. Then again, until...was it Mangold's dad...came out and said he gave his son money all the time, all kinds of people were wondering where a college kid came up with a couple g's, when his apt was robbed.
 
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It's up to the colleges to give the NCAA any teeth. The organization was founded in 1906 as a way to save college football, a sport so violent that Teddy Roosevelt was beginning to think it should be banned. They stopped practices such as using ringers, - see Purdue Boilermakers- rules disputes, -see Notre Dame and Michigan- and established a code for recruiting and eligibility.

How that code is enforced has a great deal to do with how certain conferences, Notre Dame, TV and uniform money want it enforced. If the colleges and aligned powers wanted the NCAA to be effective they would give them the money and the authority to do so.

In terms of hype, Dez Bryant was no Johnny Manziel, and Oklahoma State had nothing on their season schedule to compare to the hype of a rematch game between the back-to-back National Champs of Alabama and the Heisman winning quarterback of Texas A&M. If Manziel were to be suspended, the glamor of the game would all but disappear, something that would cost ABC/ESPN and the SEC a huge payday.

If I were an African - American, it would be hard to look at the I-want-you-to-sit-in-your-room-and-think-about-what-you've-done punishment handed Manziel opposite the 10 game suspension Dez Bryant received, or the season long suspension given to Terrell Pryor, or the all-but-the-end-of-the-season punishment given Devier Posey and not feel like race played a roll in each case.
 
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Cinci makes a good point. I think the idea is, if you punish a player on any major team, even a quarterback, the team is still relavent and interesting to watch. Even if braxton missed a few games, or if bama or oregon or stanford or georgia lost their qb, the team suffers, but it is still relavent. There are other players people want to watch, the teams have decent backups prepared. The only thing making aTm relavent is johnny football (i now owe $2 to the manziel family, but its ok because they cant collect till he leaves). They dont have a decent backup, if he goes, tv ratings drop severely. It would be nice if the viewers from teams or conferences that are pissed would not watch atm games and kill their tv ratings. It is really the only power that us fans have against the ncaa/espn. I wonder how one could organize that.

I was shocked yesterday that EVEN THE ESecPN talking heads were surprised at the ruling.
 
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Poe McKnoe said:
It would be extremely difficult, actually impossible, for the NCAA to get access to a parent's bank account unless they gift wrapped it and sent it over.
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Im not even talking about the power of a subpoena, just that $5K would be a drop in the bucket and not even noticeable.


Im putting it out there now, Johnny M. doesn't make it through the entire season without injury. He has way to big of a target on his back rolling through the SEC.
 
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