NCAA To Stop Selling Jerseys Effective Immediately

[Snitchin Splatter]

http://www.businessinsider.com/ncaa-is-done-selling-jerseys-2013-8

The NCAA Will Stop Selling Jerseys
PHILIP JOHNSON AUG. 8, 2013, 4:48 PM 1,722 5

• ShopNCAASports.com
  
  According to Yahoo! Sports Pat Forde, NCAA President Mark Emmert said the NCAA will "immediately" stop selling jerseys.
  
  
  The news comes three days after ESPN's Jay Bilas put the NCAA on blast for the merchandise on its website, ShopNCAASports.com. Bilas took to Twitter to post multiple examples of players' corresponding jerseys resulting from searches of the players' names in the search bar.
  
  Hours after the media trumpeted Bilas' find, the NCAA removed the search bar from its website in a laughable, nothing-to-see-here move.
  
  According to CBS Sports, today Emmert said he could "certainly see how people would think it's hypocritical" for the NCAA to profit off of player's likenesses so transparently. Emmert added, "I don't believe we should have been in that business."
  
  The timing of Bilas' story coincided with reports that the NCAA was investigating Manziel for possibly selling his autograph, which would be a violation of the NCAA's rules on amateurism. Instead of becoming a story about a player receiving improper benefits, it morphed into a serious look at NCAA structure and the unfair balance of everyone in the NCAA benefiting financially from players, besides the players.
  
  The incident is the latest black eye for the NCAA as it carries on its antitrust legal case spearheaded by former college basketball star Ed O'Bannon. If the case earns class action status, former players could sue the NCAA for damages and that could potentially reach billions of dollars.
  
  
  
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[Swiggy]

The fukk is going on?

 

[Arcavian]

Pressure busts pipes

Players should get paid and those motherfukkers know it.

 

[RammerJammer]

Pay these goddamn players, instead of being greedy and selfish. Ain't fair to the fans, shyt better not turn into a protest. First the video game, now jerseys

 

[Marciano]

Somebody gotta GIF that moment in the house where The Joker tells the newborn Two-Face to introduce some anarchy

I need to cop these most recent GTown shorts then asap

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

No fukkin way


Holy shyt i'm hitting up MDEN asap

 

[FaTaL]

there going to make a movie about ed obannon one day

 

[Absolut]

to Jay fukking Trillas for literally single handedly bringing the NCAA to its knees

 

[Heelmatic]

They stopped making the video games, now they've stopped selling jerseys, all just to keep from paying players. Next thing they gonna start blurring out faces and names on the back of jerseys during games

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Ed O'Bannon =

 

[UserNameless]

Before it has a chance to reach the sales floor, does the NCAA have to authorize any and every jersey that's manufactured by any company for retail sale?

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

One step closer

 

[MustafaSTL]

Ed is shytting on these fools and the case isn't even settled.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Ed better stop slick talking. NCAA going have him go missing again. And this time for good

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

to Jay fukking Trillas for literally single handedly bringing the NCAA to its knees

Yessir! And I know he'll stay on their assess for their hypocrisy and exploitation.