that would be ****ing spectacular

Nope

nope, manziel and some other heisman winner from a&m signed 6 mini helmets, and a&m auctioned them off for $81k.


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I would love Johnny to hold a presser from the children's hospital next to the amputee kids his signature just paid for new prosthetics for. Would be the ultimate troll.

supposedly there are 'sources' who say he got paid, but that hasn't come out yet.

I'm looking forward to all the delicious drama. Grab your popcorn folks.

Potential favorite drama - if it becomes extremely obvious that JFF did indeed take cash for autographs but the TAMU posters continue to deny. Recently seen in the Cam Newton drama, where essentially everyone on 2p2 except for a handful of auburn posters agree that $cam got paid. Bonus points if those same TAMU posters made fun of the Auburn posters for being so biased.

LOL Texas A&M can profit off the kids signature but he can't. I bet the other Heisman winner got paid for his sig. That is a joke.

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Seems so dumb college kids can't profit from their own fame via autographs and the like.

What a ****in joke.

This would be awesome

but it wouldn't be fair to the womens' varsity equestrian team!

Like I'm one of the "there's no reason to pay college players" side, which I realize isn't popular here and even I'm not sure why a guy can't make money outside his playing time based on his career. Seems lolobv to me.

Best headline ESPN could come up with today is "Manziel friend halted free signings"

makes me feel pretty good going forward if that's the biggest hit headline they could come up with after looking into Rovell's bull**** some more.

5dimes has it -215 that he won't play at all this year and +165 that he plays.

Very few people are thinkingofthechildren ITT.

RAIDS, everybody. lol @ u for thinking Te'o didn't generate money during the Heisman race leading up to the actual presentation. ESPN was obviously mad when Manziel won because they couldn't use the marketing of a Heisman winner being in the National Title game.


If they really didn't care (besides FW mentioning that recent story), they would not have even bothered to put Te'o in such a good, innocent light during the girlfriend scandal. Of course, for them, they don't stand to make much money off of him anymore. He isn't Tebow. And the gf story obviously hurts him a lot, so even if Te'o was ever good and Tebow was out of the league, it's harder to hype him up all the time.


You might be right that their interest in him is dying, but man, are they ever trying to taint JFF's reputation. Of course, they could have two motives, one being to get back at him for beating their other savior (Tebow is obviously the real savior), and the other for trying to gain viewership for A&M games.

Wat

Isn't that Will Play line the freeest of monies?

If Manziel is cleared and plays well again this year, then declares for the draft, I doubt his draft stock will be affected very much at all.

GUS,

You are talking about the past. Past. The PAST.

ESPN could CARE LESS about the Heisman at this point. What they care about now is JFF pushing as close to the line as possible without disappearing in a sea of excess they can only chronicle in 15 years in a moderately watched 30 for 30. They want an entire year of JFF because that is >>> 0 JFF.

Obviously their interest, you moran, is to drum up as much CONTROVERSY as they can without driving the gravy train off the tracks completely.

Big thanks GusJohnson, I've wondered a while about why ESPN was riding the Te'o for Heisman bus so hard and this explanation is perfect.

I like all this Manziel drama because he's like the anti-Tebow.

I would so love it if its proven (or close to proven) that money changed hands but the NCAA somehow manages to not find any evidence JFF was aware of the arrangement.

Would it be a violation if they could only prove his boy got paid?

As far as I can tell only parents accepting money (Cecil Newton rule) is punishable right now. There isn't a provision for "managers" or whatnot b/c I doubt the NCAA ever thought a player would have one.

i suppose it depends. if he has a great season + combine teams will obv be more likely to look past his spectacular immaturity. if he has anything short of that combined with his baggage i'd be surprised if he's taken before the 4th round

yeah this

The only way this can end is Manziel scoring the game winning TD to beat Bama, grabbing one of those goofy ass ESPN signs from the crowd, running around with it and popping off DX "suck its" on the sideline for the entire world to see.