College Bowl Pick Em (College Football Postseason Discussion Thread)

[FNH]

HAHA! This dude just can't stay out of the news.

[Plow]

As much as I hate that kid and would love the hilarity of him being made ineligible, the end of that article quickly becomes just another point about how ridiculous this shit is.

Talking about how it may end his college career if he made a few thousand, meanwhile:

Independent merchandiser Aggieland Outfitters recently auctioned off six helmets signed by Manziel and Texas A&M's other Heisman Trophy winner, John David Crow, for $81,000. Texas A&M's booster organization, the 12th Man Foundation, sold a table for six, where Manziel and Crow will sit at the team's Kickoff Dinner later this month, for $20,000.

The school has committed to renovating Kyle Field, which will push seating capacity to 102,500 by the time it is completed in 2015. Texas A&M officials have said that donors, who make annual contributions of $80,000 to $100,000, have purchased all but two of the 144 suites in the stadium.

JUST DANDY

[Serra]

I have high hopes for this story, Tyche.. Better not let me down!

That said, unless they can conclusively show he was paid, they can't rule him ineligible, right?

[Xajii]

I dislike the guy but the media is just so damn pathetic. They've actively developed a storyline about how bad this kid is by constantly hounding his family and picking at the smallest things, reporting stuff like this investigation pre-emptively, etc. just months after their massive, massive circlejerk of the guy.

[Akiyama]

I dislike the guy but the media is just so damn pathetic. They've actively developed a storyline about how bad this kid is by constantly hounding his family and picking at the smallest things, reporting stuff like this investigation pre-emptively, etc. just months after their massive, massive circlejerk of the guy.

And this is new how? Cam Newton. Lots of positive press, something comes out around the UGA game, boom. Negative press for pretty much most of the season. Pretty much anything..anyone, this happens to. It's fun to build a person up, but even more fun to tear them down, sadly.

I think he's a fun player to watch, though. He's in a shitty situation right now, though.

[Boyiee]

I feel bad for the kid. No person at that age would be able to handle the instant fame and shit hes receiving without having some kind of problems.

Although my favorite reports were of him getting kicked out of frat parties. OH SHIT WHAT DID HE DO TO GET KICKED OUT???? Where the fuck do you think all the girls go when he shows up to a party? I'd kick his ass out too.

[Akiyama]

No kidding. ZOMG HE TOTALLY DID SOMETHING CRIMINAL.

Nah nigga, he's a 20 year old kid, youngest winner of the heisman, and instant famous right now. He's swimming in pussy, and those frat dudes were mad jelly lol

[Rhinox]

Hope he enjoys it cause he's aid in the nfl right now.

[Serra]

Now with a picture of him signing a stack of pictures:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/...graph-signings

And let's be honest, the media circlejerk has ended. 30 minutes till PTI, I'd put money on them talking about how nice a kid he is and how much they like him in the first 30 seconds when they run this story.

Edit: And who cares that he's 20 years old. Every major college football player has been around that age as well. Yes, there are a lot of them who do stupid things, but more who don't. It just happens that Manziel is in the former category.

[Cail]

No kidding. ZOMG HE TOTALLY DID SOMETHING CRIMINAL.

Nah nigga, he's a 20 year old kid, youngest winner of the heisman, and instant famous right now. He's swimming in pussy, and those frat dudes were mad jelly lol

It was also at another school iirc. Like Texas or Oklahoma. Forget...

[Plow]

Now with a picture of him signing a stack of pictures:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/...graph-signings

On Monday, Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin told reporters that "our university is doing its due diligence to find out the facts." He said he learned of the allegations Sunday, when ESPN reported the story.

"Your reaction is one of, 'OK, let's find out the facts,'" Sumlin said. "Like I said, our university is involved in that. They're doing their due diligence, and until we have the facts, whatever your reaction is isn't really important."

lol he's fucked

[archibaldcrane]

Can college athletes have jobs at all?

[FNH]

Can college athletes have jobs at all?

yes, we get them in as applicants all the time during the summers. Too bad most are dumb as hell, so we don't hire them.

[Plow]

Can college athletes have jobs at all?

Yeap, the NCAA will definitely launch investigations if it looks like you were getting paid but not actually working, though.

[Plow]

Which means it's easiest to just go the KU-Danny Manning route and hire the student's dad to be an overpaid underworked assistant of some sort.

[Dngnhack]

It was also at another school iirc. Like Texas or Oklahoma. Forget...

Yeah was UT

[Serra]

And now there's a video (although not included in the link):
http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/...aphing-helmets

The broker said he does not intend to cooperate with the ongoing NCAA investigation involving Manziel and autographs, originally reported Sunday by "Outside the Lines."

And yet he's showing ESPN the video..?

[Ryany]

Which means it's easiest to just go the KU-Danny Manning route and hire the student's dad to be an overpaid underworked assistant of some sort.

It seems that happens a lot these days in giving an assistant spot to someone between high school coaches, AAU coaches, & parents of a highly ranked recruit. I've also heard about "friends of the program" (and not the school b/c that would be too obvious) giving the mother some six figure secretary job before too.

[Rhinox]

Someone on the radio made a very good point today.


Johnny underage drinking didn't raise any red flags but making money on the side did?


so yeah Fuck the NCAA I hope he gets away with it on some technicality and the NCAA ends up looking retarded like the MLB did over the ryan fraud thing.

[archibaldcrane]

Actually it looks like the most you can earn in a school year at an outside job is $2000.'

I was just wondering why these extremely fit athletes wouldn't, like, work as personal trainers on the side for $50/hr and shit.