Comments on: Education Is The Answer http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2009/03/14/education-is-the-answer/ Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: It Keeps Coming Back To Education – SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2009/03/14/education-is-the-answer/#comment-146787 It Keeps Coming Back To Education – SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:35:14 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=4620#comment-146787 [...] class setting; it has to happen when their attention is captured.  They need to read stories like this and this so that they understand that in the real world runners and AAU coaches are paid to connect [...] [...] class setting; it has to happen when their attention is captured.  They need to read stories like this and this so that they understand that in the real world runners and AAU coaches are paid to connect [...]

]]> By: Education Is Still The Answer | SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2009/03/14/education-is-the-answer/#comment-122878 Education Is Still The Answer | SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:01:04 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=4620#comment-122878 [...] many top athletes and their families do not make the same intelligent decision.  I believe that education is the answer, and as more high-profile writers at the largest media empires begin to discuss the state of [...] [...] many top athletes and their families do not make the same intelligent decision.  I believe that education is the answer, and as more high-profile writers at the largest media empires begin to discuss the state of [...]

]]> By: Marc.isenberg@gmail.com http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2009/03/14/education-is-the-answer/#comment-122040 Marc.isenberg@gmail.com Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:28:25 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=4620#comment-122040 Good work, Darren, and thanks for linking to my post on the subject. I agree with your article in every respect except the notion that Pat Barrett was unlucky. Read Raw Recruits (written by my friends Alex Wolff and Armen Keteyian. This fall he told the LA Times that he's "not affiliated with any rules. . . . I have no kids in school, I'm not a booster, I'm not alumni." Didn't realize rules something one is "affiliated with." The Yahoo! quote you ended with from Marlon Brown is telling: "You could count on one hand the number of draft picks doing it the right way... In fairness to the prospect, a lot of times they don’t know.” He seems to be admitting his agency would go behind the back of a player and pay a guy like Barrett, even if the player or his family had no idea that a shady, backroom deal was brokered. The above comment was also made on my blog... check out my response http://www.moneyplayersblog.com/blog/2009/03/the-biggest-whore-jerry-tarkanian-ever-met.html <a href="http://www.twitter.com/moneyplayer" rel="nofollow">follow @moneyplayer on twitter</a><a></a> Good work, Darren, and thanks for linking to my post on the subject. I agree with your article in every respect except the notion that Pat Barrett was unlucky. Read Raw Recruits (written by my friends Alex Wolff and Armen Keteyian. This fall he told the LA Times that he’s “not affiliated with any rules. . . . I have no kids in school, I’m not a booster, I’m not alumni.”

Didn’t realize rules something one is “affiliated with.”

The Yahoo! quote you ended with from Marlon Brown is telling: “You could count on one hand the number of draft picks doing it the right way… In fairness to the prospect, a lot of times they don’t know.” He seems to be admitting his agency would go behind the back of a player and pay a guy like Barrett, even if the player or his family had no idea that a shady, backroom deal was brokered.

The above comment was also made on my blog…
check out my response
http://www.moneyplayersblog.com/blog/2009/03/the-biggest-whore-jerry-tarkanian-ever-met.html

follow @moneyplayer on twitter

]]> By: You're Kidding Me http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2009/03/14/education-is-the-answer/#comment-121974 You're Kidding Me Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:06:44 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=4620#comment-121974 Are you kidding me? The real question, though, is who benefits? The player? The player does not see any of the money being handed off to runners, coaches, recruiters, etc. Instead, the player gets told by someone being paid off, who he should end up signing with. Kevin Love and his dad got over $300,000 in cash, expenses, gifts etc indirectly from Ceruzzi. Pat Barrett didn't keep the money. His payoff would have been if Kevin signed with Ceruzzi they would have likely gave him a payoff and hopefully Kevin being the grateful young man that he is would kick back some funds to Pat's progam. The agents are the guilty parties in this thing. Not that you can blame them. I mean you get a kid and get him signed to a 10+ million dollar contract and it cost them $250,000 to get him. That's money well spent. Unethical but, well spent. Are you kidding me? The real question, though, is who benefits? The player? The player does not see any of the money being handed off to runners, coaches, recruiters, etc. Instead, the player gets told by someone being paid off, who he should end up signing with.

Kevin Love and his dad got over $300,000 in cash, expenses, gifts etc indirectly from Ceruzzi. Pat Barrett didn’t keep the money. His payoff would have been if Kevin signed with Ceruzzi they would have likely gave him a payoff and hopefully Kevin being the grateful young man that he is would kick back some funds to Pat’s progam.

The agents are the guilty parties in this thing. Not that you can blame them. I mean you get a kid and get him signed to a 10+ million dollar contract and it cost them $250,000 to get him. That’s money well spent. Unethical but, well spent.

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