Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Mayo Gets Baked



O.J. Mayo, point guard from USC, is going to the NBA draft. That is not important. The real question is did he ever get money or gifts from a sports agency?
No duh it happened. He is O.J. Mayo, you are telling me agents don’t want a piece of him, here are the 3 reasons why I know it happened.
If you look at him he is always wearing designer clothes and has a FLAT SCREEN TV In his room! No regular college student can afford a big flat screen. When I mention this fact to SC fans, the say, his family could have given it to him. No, OJ comes for a poor family, that’s why he is leaving early to get his family money, so there is no way they could afford a big TV. So there is no other explanation than a sports agency paying for it.
The next reason is, this posse has recently formed around O.J. once he started getting good in high school. The main posse member was proved to be part of a sports agency. So is that not at all suspicious to you? If you answered no to that question than you are either a SC fan or just extremely naïve, for both of which I am sorry for you. This guy is obviously trying to b bribe o.J. into joining their agency.
My last reason is, O.J. is not a trust fund baby; he comes from a low salary family. Now, if you know your mom isn’t making rent, and some guy comes up to you and says, here take a couple grand, wouldn’t you take it? Obviously you would and its hard to believe O.J. didn’t.
I think The NCAA needs to get this under control (Agents paying players in college). In these situations I don’t blame the players, I blame the agents. I mean, if some guy came up to you and said I want to represent you and make you millions. Here is an incentive, two thousand dollars, to sign with us. That is hard to turn down, especially if they player is poor. The problem is that is what agents do; they specifically target poor kids who need the money.
I think that the NCAA shouldn’t punish the schools as much but make it a law that players can’t get paid in highschool, and have the agents get punished more. Because it isn’t the schools fault what the players do, and look Demar Drozen (SC’s #1 recruit/ best high school player in the country is saying he might leave if SC gets penalized too much.
In conclusion I think its obvious that O.J. took money and now USC will be penalized. That’s not what I think is right but once a player has left college what can the NCAA do. This really stinks for USC.

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