Johnny Manziel

If you are a college football fan you have heard whats been going on with Johnny Football as he is referred too. If you are not than here is an update. Johnny plays for Texas A&M football. He is the reigning Heisman Trophy winner as a Redshirt Sophmore. He led his team to a win over the reigning National Champion Alabama, which was Alabama only loss all year. Since football season ended Johnny has been in the news for underage drinking at frat parties to being investigated for profiting over making money on autographs. The biggest topic that is being debated is the latter. Some people say hey its his name why cant he make money off of himself. The answer to that is simple. The NCAA does not allow it. However absurd that it sounds thats how it is. The school can profit. The NCAA can profit but he cannot. Now the NCAA did say they will not be selling school merchandise on their website. The school yes sees their ticket sales go up and more recruits go to their school if they do well and Johnny is putting a lot of people in the seats. But the school has to lay out money as well. Lets say they are allowed 20 scholarships and 15 of them are on a free ride the school has to eat that money that they will not be receiving in tuition. Thats just in football. They have basketball scholarships and many other sports. I have a problem with the way some schools are dealing with that as well since schools are eliminating sports to save money but than give free rides to kids that play football and basketball since they bring in the money. But back to Manziel, he is a rich white kid that seems to be quite spoiled. His parents are very wealthy people that made most of their money from Oil. I saw an article today that said they also was involved in cockfighting. So lets say they have dabbled in some questionable activities. The other side of the coin and lets explore this a little bit is Johnny tells Texas A&M I'm leaving the school to go to the NFL and doesnt play this season. For one that would be a huge blow to the Alabama Texas A&M game on Sept 14. One that I am very excited to see and hopefully an Alabama victory. The Honey Badger from LSU got kicked off the team for drugs and now will profit in the NFL. Pete Carroll left USC in shambles to run to the NFL before USC got hit with sanctions. I believe they were investigating Oregon when Chip Kelly left for the Eagles. So lets say Manziel takes this route. He runs away like a coward and applies for the NFL draft. From what I heard hes a 3rd rounder right now. Someone will guarantee to draft him and sign him to a multi year deal worth a good amount of money. Now remember he is not some poor kid that has to rely on football (maybe thats the problem). Hell end up in the NFL away from the sanctions if any that the NCAA lays down. So now the players that are there after him have to suffer. Look at Ohio State in 2012(12-0 and no bowl games due to selfish kids getting tattoos and cars). Could you imagine being on an undefeated team just to be told nope you wont be playing in any bowl games this year? I would be highly annoyed. I dont believe any player that gets in trouble should be able to run away from the problems they left behind. The NFL and NCAA need to get on the same page and not let the player make the jump meaning if the NCAA puts down a 2 year ban on the school or takes away scholarships than the NFL will not let that player come to the league for the 2 years. Now not only does the school suffer but the player is sitting at home watching other kids get drafted taking his spot. Like my mom always said if you wanna make a person suffer hit them where it hurts the most....IN the wallet. In this case Manziel will also be ok financially. If you hurt his reputation than just maybe someday these kids will wake up and think. Im a huge football fan to see the game being ruined because of what these kids do is a disgrace. Whats more of a disgrace is the NFL lets them run from the problems players/coaches leave behind and hide there.