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Title: Paying Players
Post by: wetwillie on October 12, 2010, 03:05:21 PM
Good read from a former agent about paying players.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/magazine/10/12/agent/index.html (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/magazine/10/12/agent/index.html)

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There used to be a joke in the industry that if you saw a college player driving a Datsun 280Z, then you could forget about signing him. It was widely known Doc had a hookup at a Datsun dealership in Southern California.

 :surprised:
Title: Re: Paying Players
Post by: deputy dawg on October 12, 2010, 03:43:40 PM
A Datsun 280Z??  We're talking mid 1970's.
Title: Re: Paying Players
Post by: jmlynch1 on October 12, 2010, 03:48:33 PM
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Doc had known Tony since he was a little kid and had represented his uncle, former USC and NFL linebacker Chip Banks. We paid Tony several hundred dollars a month.

Selby has known Frazier all of his life. Nothing shady could be going on.
Title: Re: Paying Players
Post by: wetwillie on October 12, 2010, 03:55:07 PM
A Datsun 280Z??  We're talking mid 1970's.

Yea that little nugget wasn't really applicable to current players but I thought it was hilarious that people took Datsun's as bribes in college.  Don't know if I beleive half of what he wrote but it did throw alot of people under the bus.
Title: Re: Paying Players
Post by: WillieWatanabe on October 12, 2010, 04:00:48 PM
A Datsun 280Z??  We're talking mid 1970's.

Yea that little nugget wasn't really applicable to current players but I thought it was hilarious that people took Datsun's as bribes in college.  Don't know if I beleive half of what he wrote but it did throw alot of people under the bus.

those were pretty badass back then, weren't they?
Title: Re: Paying Players
Post by: MadCat on October 12, 2010, 04:28:39 PM
A Datsun 280Z??  We're talking mid 1970's.

Yea that little nugget wasn't really applicable to current players but I thought it was hilarious that people took Datsun's as bribes in college.  Don't know if I beleive half of what he wrote but it did throw alot of people under the bus.

those were pretty badass back then, weren't they?

It is in the Nissan Z-car series, of which I would not mind a new model.  wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-car)
Title: Re: Paying Players
Post by: Deez Nutz on October 13, 2010, 01:19:38 AM
That article was a great read.  Glad there were no former KSU players involved.  Here is a podcast of a radio interview of the sports agent done today:

http://chrisvernonshow.podbean.com/2010/10/12/chris-vernon-show-october-12-2010-featuring-sports-agent-josh-luchs-inerview-only/ (http://chrisvernonshow.podbean.com/2010/10/12/chris-vernon-show-october-12-2010-featuring-sports-agent-josh-luchs-inerview-only/)