Sharrif Floyd (official thread)

[ScriptOhio]

How in the world is this kid gonna find $2700? His family is poor.

I wondered the same thing. There is no way the kid can legitimately earn that much money in 2 weeks.

Script the kid has to "arrange" to pay it back. Not come up with the coin in two weeks

Gatorubet or anyone else,

I actually thought that the kid had to make full restitutuion before he was allowed to play (i.e. reinstated); i.e. like take out a loan, with parents co-signing or putting up some colateral, etc. The players get loans to buy cars all the time. Please educate me on this, exactly what type of "arrangement" would be acceptable to the NCAA? I assume he just can't promise to pay $1 a month for 2700 months.

 

[Taosman]

Just the Peyote talkin.

As opposed to being a wino? :tongue2:

 

[Gatorubet]

Yeah, it only took us 15 minutes to figure out how to meet each other in the Sugar Bowl. I gave Gator the wrong section number to meet

Yeah. Like that was an accident.

 

[Gatorubet]

Gatorubet or anyone else,

I actually thought that the kid had to make full restitutuion before he was allowed to play (i.e. reinstated); i.e. like take out a loan, with parents co-signing or putting up some colateral, etc. The players get loans to buy cars all the time. Please educate me on this, exactly what type of "arrangement" would be acceptable to the NCAA? I assume he just can't promise to pay $1 a month for 2700 months.

Good question. I have no idea.

I was going off the official NCAA announcement language, here:

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect...+floyd+must+sit+out+two+games,+repay+benefits

University of Florida football student-athlete Sharrif Floyd must sit out two
games and arrange repayment of approximately $2,700 to charity before he
is eligible to compete, according to a decision today by the NCAA student-
athlete reinstatement staff. Floyd did not compete Sept. 3 and must sit out
the university's next game on Saturday (Sept. 10).

 

[crazybuckeye]

Would said coach have helped him if he wasn't good at playing basketball? That's the issue.

In the case of Floyd, that doesn't seem to apply, but I haven't read anything about the situation and am going mostly off of what grad is saying.

Said recruit had already been ruled ineligible by the NCAA for having played in a couple of semi-pro games in Europe. O'Brien assumed that this meant he was no longer a prospective recruit. He gave Radojevic money out of his own pocket to pay medical bills because Radojevic's father was terminally ill and the family had no money.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Said recruit had already been ruled ineligible by the NCAA for having played in a couple of semi-pro games in Europe. O'Brien assumed that this meant he was no longer a prospective recruit. He gave Radojevic money out of his own pocket to pay medical bills because Radojevic's father was terminally ill and the family had no money.

As I recall Ohio State (i.e. O'Brien) was appealing the NCAA ruling of Radojevic's ineligibility so he was still potentially "in play" as a recruit.

:osu:

 

[bassbuckeye07]

Billy D is gonna let him baby sit for him the next two weeks.

 

[Romanowski]

LINK

I hope I'm not out of line here with a little more perspective...

I've seen a lot of GPA posts, but none like the one linked.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Former Gator Shariff Floyd takes lead in class-action suit against NCAA

A new class action lawsuit against the NCAA and just about every Division 1 conference has been filed with former Florida Gators defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd taking the lead as a plaintiff. The class action suite was filed Friday and focuses on grants-in-aid for men and women student-athletes. Michael McCann of Sports Illustrated was first to report news about the lawsuit.

“Student athletes need to be respected more,” Floyd said in a statement shared via Twitter Friday. “It’s hard for great coaches to do their job when their athletes are just looking for something as simple as an extra meal, a movie date with a friend and comfort that they are gonna be taken care of and not taken advantage of.”
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Floyd was once suspended by the NCAA for accepting improper benefits from his future adopted family in one of the more complicated situations regarding NCAA violations. Floyd missed two games in 2011 as a result of the violation.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...takes-lead-in-class-action-suit-against-ncaa/

 

[ScriptOhio]

Sharrif Floyd suing Dr. James Andrews for $180M

Andrews and the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, alleging he suffered permanent nerve and muscle damage following a knee procedure in September 2016.

The lawsuit was announced in a statement by Floyd's lawyer Brad Sohn that was obtained by NFL Network's Mike Garafolo.

"If you break something, you pay for it," Sohn said. "And this lawsuit seeks to hold the parties' responsible who we allege have done so. This guy went in for a routine knee scope and left without his incredibly lucrative career."

The suit alleges Floyd was told he needed arthroscopic knee surgery and that he'd be out for 3-4 weeks. Instead, he underwent a more "significant procedure" and suffered permanent nerve and muscle damage in his right leg that Floyd and his lawyers believe was the result of a negligently administered pain blocker by the Andrews Institute.

Entire article: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000985075/article/sharrif-floyd-suing-dr-james-andrews-for-180m

Re: Sharrif Floyd suing Dr. James Andrews for $180 and
Former Gator Shariff Floyd takes lead in class-action suit against NCAA

Just sayin': Floyd should have worked on a law defgree at Florida. If his cases are actually legit (and I have no reason to believe they aren't), he could save millions in legal fees.