In the last week football programs across the country have had to deal with possible NCAA investigations. Football programs from Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and even defending BCS champion Alabama have all come under fire in regard to rules violations involving their players and agents.
- The issue of agents infiltrating football programs, or any collegiate athletics, is hardly anything new. Agency firms, boosters, alums, and general fans have found ways to provide benefits for players for decades. However, with the latest round of possible violations involving players either signing with an agent or illegally taking money from an agent it seems like the problems has become an epidemic.
- The schools named in recent reports have mostly denied any wrong doing, but it is still likely some of the teams (if not all) will have to forfeit wins if an illegal player was involved in the games. Is that cutting the core of the issue? Schools already have administration set up to help combat illegal activity in it's athletic department. Coaches already go to great lengths to try and control each and every player 24 hours a day (outside of USC where anything goes). Further punishing the schools isn't exactly helping.
- One way to help, and I mentioned this on the show on Monday, would be to set up restrictions and regulations on the actual agency's that give the benefits to the players. I am not advocating for government involvement, but penalties that actually have an effect on the agency rather the school would probably start to curtail all of this illegal NCAA activity. In all reality it seems like there are more rules violations involving agents by the day, but how many do not get reported? It's far to rampant to stop at the collegiate level, this problem needs to be regulated with the agents themselves.
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