Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXXIV

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orangeblood79 said:
So a student athlete that starts their own business is a violation? How dare they become an enterprising, self-sufficient adult before they leave school!
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The school can't pay you and you can't earn your own money. Yet we wonder why kids accept money from boosters.
 
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Volnukem said:
It was from last September. Surely they wouldn't count that against a senior in high school. I think it was someone else.
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Well either way it is stupid. The only way I could see it being a violation is if the kid was selling t-shirts with his college football images on it. I guess that would be profiting from your status as an amateur athlete.
 
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Volnukem said:
I should link the article.

https://tennessee.247sports.com/Art...see-Vols-athletics-to-self-repo-105338067/Amp

Here is the excerpt:
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So he didn't use his status as a SA in anyway to make a profit but we are still going to throw the book at him?

Meanwhile, in Alabama....
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Volnukem said:
It was from last September. Surely they wouldn't count that against a senior in high school. I think it was someone else.
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Yeah, Crosby was my first thought. But I don't remember anything about his business involving a sister. Plus what you said - he wasn't here last fall.
 
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Here's an article about Eric Crosby. Preston Williams had a small apparel design business, too, but he's gone.

"As a sixth-grader, Eric Crosby, oldest of three boys to a single parent, promised his mom, Amy, that she wouldn’t have to pay for college.

Crosby will officially fulfill that pledge Sunday, when the Virginia Beach defensive tackle product reports to Tennessee to start his freshman year. The Oceans Lakes (Va.) standout shares a super close relationship with his mom, saying, “She’s had the biggest impact on my life.”

Growing up, Crosby watched as his mom forewent meals to provide for him and his two younger brothers. She struggled to makes ends meet, but she never gave up, leaving a lasting legacy on Crosby.

Before he even shows up to Tennessee, the 6-foot-1, 325-pound mauler — nicknamed ‘Yeti’ like the Abominable Snowman since the 9th grade — is already building his brand to give back.

Earlier this year, Crosby started a T-shirt business titled, ‘Leave Your Legacy,’ selling two different types of shirts. One T-shirt has a Yeti logo on the front, with Y-E-T-I spelled out on the back.

Young
Established
Talented
Individual

The other shirt is a monthly awareness shirt, with shirts already printed to support breast cancer, autism and lupus in the last three months. Crosby worked shifts at the local rec center after football practice to pay for the merchandise, selling the shirts for $20 a pop.

Each month, he donates the leftovers and some of the revenue to Maison des Enfants de Dieu, an orphanage in Haiti where one of his mom’s friends actually adopted a child and later moved back to the island to work at the site.

Inspired by his mom’s influence, Crosby’s entire business idea came together over hamburgers and a shake at Sonic one afternoon.

“It was about three or four months ago,” he explained, chuckling. “I was with my friends and just said, ‘Man, I’m trying to impact people’s lives. I’m going to make some shirts and start a company called Leave Your Legacy. I always thought that when you’re doing something in life, I always say do it as if you were to die tomorrow. Make sure everyone remembers what you did. Don’t have people remember you for what you could have done, or what you could have been. My mom always motivated me to give back and make sure that I’m respectful to everybody.”

https://tennessee.rivals.com/news/eric-crosby-leaving-legacy
 
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jackcrevol said:
app Griese was Dooley esque as it is with other people. Cool story bro? My bro in law says he's short and terse with people he doesnt know. Said it took several times of saying hello for him to respond. Who knows? coulda been his wife was up his ass, he was on vacay? i really dont care either way. just relaying.
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I'm not the guy who's always hollering about how the announcers are biased against this school or that one either. But it was almost evident to me how much more he would have to say when FSU did something positive as opposed to when UT did. Went on and on about Mickey Andrews and I think he he only mentioned Chavis once the whole game. Before the game he picked FSU to win and then when it was clear they wouldn't at the end of the game he went on to say what a magician Bobby Bowden would have been if they had won with Outzen as QB.
 
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