Corrupt Assistant at Corrupt School Gives Money to Corrupt Football Player with Assinine Name

[joeybee12]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alabama assistant strength and conditioning coach Corey Harris has been placed on administrative leave after the school learned he provided impermissible benefits to safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, a source confirmed to ESPN.com on Thursday.

Clinton-Dix, who was suspended indefinitely by coach Nick Saban for a violation of team rules Wednesday, was provided a loan of less than $500 from Harris during the summer, which he repaid before the start of football season. Alabama's compliance office learned of the matter last weekend.

The loan would constitute a violation of NCAA bylaw 16.11.2.2, which says, "an institutional employee or representative of the institution's athletics interests may not provide a student-athlete with extra benefits or services, including, but not limited to ... a loan of money."

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9765445/alabama-crimson-tide-assistant-coach-placed-leave-providing-impermissible-benefits-safety-ha-ha-clinton-dix

[trotsky]

1. Ha Ha Clinton-Dix??? Relevant Key & Peele sketch:

[El Supremo]

4. That is so fucking funny!

His real name is Ha'Sean Clinton-Dix. And he was probably going to be a first round draft pick. Stupid fucks!

[madinmaryland]

2. Clinton-Dix??? Isn't that the same as "Clenis"

[joeybee12]

3. Clinton-Dix...wasn't that what the Repukelicons said was the cause of

all America's problems????

[madinmaryland]

5. Actually, it was the size of Obama's package that had them worried.

[joeybee12]

6. Oh my!

[JonLP24]

7. You forget to mention the corrupt organization they all work under

who came up with the monopsonic rule the says you can't give money to players whether they have assinine names or not.,

[joeybee12]

8. And if you do, they'll do their best to ignore it until they

can't ignore it any longer.

[JonLP24]

9. I accept that answer

I'd say the same schools that came together to create these rules are the same schools that are breaking them. Far preferable for them to pay the same wage(scholarship, stipends) to every player, cheat on the side-- rather than compete for them in an open market like they do with coaches.

[joeybee12]

10. I'm against paying student athletes...but if it happens, then you create

a 2-tier system, one for college programs that are amateur, and one for semi-pro, which is what most SEC schools have become anyway.

[JonLP24]

11. When you look into the reasons

why the NCAA doesn't pay "student-athletes" you'll see it's strictly for money. The reason why the term "student-athletes" even exists is because the NCAA created it after they lost a case in Colorado in the 50's where the judge ruled they had to pay workman's comp for a player that got injured. The term exists so they don't have to pay workman's comp.

I mentioned the monopsony which "is an agreement among competitors not to pay more than a fixed price for a key input, such as labor. By agreeing to pay less, the cartel purchases less of the input (and perhaps of lower quality), because less is supplied at the lower price (and suppliers may lower quality to compensate, by reducing their costs, for the lower price they receive). " -- http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/04/monopsony-in-college-athleticsposner.html

They don't do this for purity but for money.

When you take the sports out of the equation and look at it strictly from an economics POV there is no reason why anyone can be against it. There is no other example of what is going on in the NCAA anywhere else in America. The professional leagues wish they could have the control the NCAA does. Also, based on precedents, "student-athletes" should be covered under the National Labor Relations Act and the study goes into how and why they do(I'd recommend reading the entire thing with an open mind) -- http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handle/1773.1/262/81washlrev71.pdf

Sorry for hijacking your thread but I think the real scandal is everyone else isn't/can't be paid.