Been told that college football programs, particularly in the south, routinely find creative ways to compensate parents of recruits/players. Media/relations/staff support jobs. Parents of players/recruits paid to make phone calls to drum up interest in and attend meet-and-greet/fundraiser/charitable events for alumni, donors, and new recruits and their families. Parents paid for administrative duties related to running a college program's summer camps for kids. Parents with a football background paid as support staff to participate in the breakdown of practice and game films and the assessment of a potential recruit's videos. Often part-time jobs and work from home jobs. Does the NCAA have rules that disallow athletic programs from paying parents?
Paying parents of recruits
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I wonder if a parent with a law enforcement background would be offered some sort of security job at a school.
Years ago students would get paid as custodians on campus by turning on the lights say in the gym in the morning and off at night. OH the NCAA came down hard on them because most of the time the jocks never touched a light switch. RULES WERE MADE!!! so now mom and dad do it and it oh so legal. See how much cleaner sports is now.
So does Under Armour fire the kid's parent if he throws too many interceptions, or when his eligibility runs out?
Recently at Syracuse :
A "representative of the institution's athletics interests" acknowledged that he paid three football players and two basketball players a combined $8,335 for "volunteer" work at a local YMCA the representative was associated with.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/syracuse-basketball-jim-boeheim-ncaa-suspension-2015-3#ixzz3ZUO6YjH6
A "representative of the institution's athletics interests" acknowledged that he paid three football players and two basketball players a combined $8,335 for "volunteer" work at a local YMCA the representative was associated with.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/syracuse-basketball-jim-boeheim-ncaa-suspension-2015-3#ixzz3ZUO6YjH6
I always wondered how college FB players on these espn shows (road trip, etc) drive these pretty nice trucks when they don't have a job. Someone is getting money. I had a job and couldn't afford a truck as nice as those.
Earlier this year Michigan hired Wayne Lyons' mom: http://www.freep.com/story/sports/c...n-secondary-violations-jim-harbaugh/27154627/
Gwendolyn Bush, Lyons' mother, was hired as U-M football's director of player development during the winter and tweeted Feb. 4: "Now I'm @UMICH_Mama_G TeamMom for the University of Michigan Football Program!" That tweet and others about the transfer have been removed from her Twitter account.
Gwendolyn Bush, Lyons' mother, was hired as U-M football's director of player development during the winter and tweeted Feb. 4: "Now I'm @UMICH_Mama_G TeamMom for the University of Michigan Football Program!" That tweet and others about the transfer have been removed from her Twitter account.
Some SEC schools..er... boosters... will give the parents $100,000's. Tenn once paid $500,000 for one player.... some fans did anyway.
