Change from the NCAA; Michael Beasley counterclaim; Is a deal close in the NBA?
October 28, 2011
Conferences can vote to add $2,000 in "full cost-of-attendance" money to scholarship offers.
Individual schools can choose to award multiyear scholarships.
Scholarships may not be revoked based on athletic performance.
NCAA approves a number of reforms to help tarnished image
The NCAA approved several reforms aimed at helping student-athletes at the Division I level. Among the reforms approved by the NCAA are the following:
Conferences can vote to add $2,000 in "full cost-of-attendance" money to scholarship offers.
Individual schools can choose to award multiyear scholarships.
Scholarships may not be revoked based on athletic performance.
Schools that fail to meet the Academic Progress Rate cutline will be ineligible for postseason play, including bowl games. The cutline will be increased from the current 900 to 930 in four years.
For the NCAA's take on the matter, view this link.
NBA's Beasley counter-sues former agent and AAU coach
To understand the AAU basketball system in the United States the book Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine by George Dohrmann is a must read. If you don't have the time to read this book, then just take a look at the lawsuit involving NBA player Michael Beasley, his former agent Joel Bell and Beasley's AAU coach Curtis Malone.
Agent Joel Bell initiated the legal fireworks in January by filing a wrongful termination suit against Beasley, after Beasley left Bell to sign on with agent Jeff Schwartz. Bell claims Beasley fired him to avoid paying commissions on an endorsement deal that Bell had been working on. Last month Beasley filed a counterclaim against Bell and AAU coach Curtis Malone. Beasley claims both Bell and Malone conspired to form a relationship with him starting at the age of fourteen. Additionally, Beasley claims Bell paid thousands of dollars to Beasley's mother while Beasley was attending Kansas State. Beasley's counterclaim illustrates the relationship of agents and AAU coaches working together to exploit a star player who one day might play in the NBA.
Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports does a great job of looking at the system that allows AAU basketball coaches and player agents to groom young players for the NBA, and at the same time developing relationships that both the coach and agent will benefit from financially somewhere down the road.
Is a deal in the near future for the NBA?
Is a deal in the near future for the NBA?
Rumors are rampant that things are turning around on the NBA labor front.There is even talk of still playing a full season if a new CBA agreement is reached over the next week
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