NCAA president Mark Emmert said college sports’ governing body would stop selling individual jerseys and other team-related memorabilia on its website, calling the practice a “mistake” and admitting others might view it as hypocritical.
This is what is known as damage control.
The NCAA’s decision comes in the wake of ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas exposing the controversial enterprise on Twitter. Bilas criticized the NCAA for selling jerseys of popular football and basketball players on its ShopNCAAsports.com website.
ESPN reported that Manziel is being examined for allegedly signing autographs for money before last January’s BCS title game between Alabama and Notre Dame. Such a deal would compromise Manziel’s status as an amateur.
Jim Darnell will represent the Texas A&M quarterback, and he predicted that Manziel will not miss any playing time.
“I can’t say much other than we’re working through the process,” Darnell told USA Today. “He’s cooperating with the investigation. We think when all this comes out on the other end, he’ll be the starting quarterback for the Aggies against Rice” in the season opener Aug. 31.
Dick Weiss is a sportswriter and columnist who has covered college football and college and professional basketball for the Philadelphia Daily News and the New York Daily News. He has received the Curt Gowdy Award from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and is a member of the national Sportswriters Hall of Fame. He has also co-written several books with Rick Pitino, John Calipari, Dick Vitale and authored a tribute book on Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.
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