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Message: [QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 2504464, member: 6357"] The thing is, people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. You and others seem to believe SU players or their families have never been paid by agents, runners, etc. You really don’t think there’s a ledger out there with names like Chris McCullough, Malachi Richardson and other SU players on it? I certainly believe there could be. Then what will you say? I don’t think JB is doing crap like Sean Miller and actually setting up payments from agents to players to get them to sign with Syracuse. But JB and other head coaches are certainly generally aware that some players get paid by agents as an enticement to sign with them when they turn pro. However, you’d think most coaches stay far away from any involvement of who, what, where and how much. Does that make them guilty? This is the system and how it’s worked for decades. Is Izzo automatically guilty because it appears Miles Bridges or his family was given a loan by an agent? I will reserve judgment until we find out he or any other coach was in the middle of that transaction. We now know Sean Miller likely did put himself directly in the middle of a player-agent relationship to get a recruit to sign with Arizona. That’s wrong and blatantly against the current rules, and he should be terminated immediately if it’s proven to be true. But I don’t understand how you cant see that the primary issue is the NCAA’s charade of amateurism. That’s why recruits and their families take these secret payments from agents and shoe companies. The athletes are the actual product on the floor, yet they’re the only ones not benefitting from the multi-billion dollar industry that everyone else is making millions from. Yes, they get a scholarship, and that should factor in. But it still doesn’t account for their relative market value to these programs and conferences. [/QUOTE]

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