UPDATE: at least 28 Ohio State football players sold memorabilia for tattoos

[TrojanHorse]

Originally Posted by Phenomenal TJ

Isn't that pretty common for USC players/students?



The 'hotness' of the player is what changes from year to year. Look at it this way: this year, rookie autographs of guys like Ben Tate, Eric Decker, etc. are hitting their highs in price range, next year, two years from now, when/if they don't/haven't done anything in the NFL, that autograph is going to be worth $1.25.

The hotness is more likely to decline when they leave school, when they are finally able to sell it without punishment. Look at how many go from college star to NFL flops. Your best bet is to get paid for that autograph while in college.

Rashaan Salaam or Jason White, anyone?

[Titans4Vols]

Originally Posted by TrojanHorse

The hotness is more likely to decline when they leave school, when they are finally able to sell it without punishment. Look at how many go from college star to NFL flops. Your best bet is to get paid for that autograph while in college.

Rashaan Salaam or Jason White, anyone?

White wasn't drafted nor was anything expected of him professionally. I don't think he counts for that example. I'm pretty sure something autographed by him is still pretty valuable. Checking Ebay really quickly, a couple signed helmets I'm seeing are going anywhere from $40-70 dollars, and signed jerseys near $130.

Rashaan Salaam can go suck a dick though. Should have been McNair's heisman

[Phenomenal TJ]

Originally Posted by TrojanHorse

The hotness is more likely to decline when they leave school, when they are finally able to sell it without punishment. Look at how many go from college star to NFL flops. Your best bet is to get paid for that autograph while in college.

Rashaan Salaam or Jason White, anyone?

If they're getting drafted, doesn't really matter where even, the auto's will be hottest right after draft day, up until the season, and well into the season if they perform.

[TrojanHorse]

Originally Posted by Phenomenal TJ

If they're getting drafted, doesn't really matter where even, the auto's will be hottest right after draft day, up until the season, and well into the season if they perform.

While in college, Dwayne Jarrett's autograph would have been worth more than Steve Smith's. No one wants Jarrett's autograph now, and if you have it, it isn't worth nearly as much as it was while he was at USC.

Matt Cassel is on the opposite side. While he was in college, some kid probably said I got an autograph from some guy named Matt Cassel, and probably wasn't even sure what position he played. That signature now is just as valuable as the guy that kept him on the bench, Matt Leinart, and rising. The only reason Leinart holds any value is because he won the Heisman Trophy...and it was probably at it's highest when he was still at USC.

[TrojanHorse]

The NCAA can send out all the press releases it wants. It can trot out obscure bylaws. It can send its new enforcement chief on an "outreach" tour, as it did earlier this month when newly appointed vice president of enforcement Julie Roe Lach visited several media outlets, including SI.com.

None of it will change the perception -- fueled further by Thursday's Ohio State suspensions -- that the organization is making up the rules as it goes along.

You have every reason to be puzzled as to why five Ohio State players -- most notably stars Terrelle Pryor, Dan Herron and DeVier Posey -- will be suspended for the first five games of next season for selling various rings, awards and apparel, yet will be allowed to play in the Jan. 4 Sugar Bowl against Arkansas.

If you're an Ohio State fan, you have every reason to be confused about why former star Troy Smith was suspended for the 2004 Alamo Bowl for receiving $500 from a booster while the aforementioned five will suit up despite pocketing between $1,000 to $2,500 from some other nefarious figure.

If you're a Georgia fan, you have every reason to be miffed that receiver A.J. Green had to sit the first four games of this season for a very similar transgression (selling a game-worn jersey) while the offending Buckeyes sold some of their stuff more than a year earlier yet never missed a game.

And if you're just a general college football fan, you have every reason to be puzzled, outraged and perhaps even despondent that the NCAA came down harder on Ohio State players for selling rings than it did on Heisman winner Cam Newton, whose father shopped Newton's signature for $180,000.

Source: Stewart Mandel, SI.com

[Keith]

Lol @ all the BS in this case.

The players didn't know they couldn't sell the stuff they sold? What a bunch of crap, they're probably laughing at the NCAA and everyone about this situation. As if they didn't know. Everybody who watches/follows NCAA sports knows that.

Pryor is lying about why he sold it (for his mother he said), they all came together with the same excuse, and the NCAA handled this wrong.

All I can say is BC$.

I'm sure both Ohio St. and Arkansas are happy all players will be playing.

[BBSOONER]

Arkansas wants a full strength OSU for sure. They want to earn their respect and if Pryor is out they will not get it.

[BigdaddyQH]

You guys are making a lot out of nothing. You do not understand the rules. Here are the rules. The NCAA can and will do what it wants in regards to rule violations. There is absolutely NOTHING that any school can do about ths. Nada, zip, zero. Sure they can appeal, but in most cases, those appeals are heard and dismissed.

In the case of Tattoo U, there were clear rule violations. The NCAA could care less whether you guys like the rules or not. You guys have absolutely NOTHING to do with their deisions and your opinions mean NOTHING to the NCAA. The players involved got nailed. They received an extra game for not coming forward and disclosing the violations when confronted by the Ohio State Compliance Committee and explained the rules.

I would have made the suspensions for 6 games, adding an additional game on for flat out lying about what they did with the money. The story about giving it to their mothers is B.S. If that were true, the Juniors involved in this would have already announced that they were going to the NFL, so they can support mommy dearest.

The fact is that the suspensions are legit, and perfectly within the powers of the NCAA. You can compare this and that all day, but it will not change anything. These guys committed the crime, and now they are going to have to serve the time.

Now for all of you guys complaining about the NCAA and no bowl suspension, the NCAA hit a home run with that decision. Over 10,000 tickets had been sold at Ohio State for the game. Fans had made plane and hotel reservations, all of which were NON-CANCELABLE. These fans would have been stuckwatching some no-name QB lead Ohio State to a boring loss. By allowing the Tattoo 5 to play, the NCAA actually did something FOR the fans, not against them. In this case, the NCAA had the fan's back. This is not some Mickey Mouse Bowl like someone brought up. It is a major bowl game.