I wonder how the NCAA will eventually handle this

[royalfan5]

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/11/27/sports/doc456a4269e22ed815589793.txt

One of NU's freshman basketball players is also a talented musician who is in the process of recording a CD. I wonder if the NCAA will prevent him from releasing it because it would violate a rule regarding earnings or something like that. With the NCAA you never know.

[Frozen Sooner]

I think he's OK on this so long as his earnings are tied to actual sales.

[Widescreen]

NU has a basketball team?


;)

[royalfan5]

NU has a basketball team?


;)
2-0 vs. OU last year.

[colleyvillesooner]

That's not saying much. :D

[royalfan5]

I think he's OK on this so long as his earnings are tied to actual sales.
What if a booster (Hypothecially speaking, I don't know if NU has basketball boosters given our traditional lack of success) wanted to buy a large quantity of copies for the purpose of transfering money to the player?

[Frozen Sooner]

So long as they're actual sales, I think the NCAA doesn't bat an eye. I know they let the running back at Boise State knit stuff and sell it.

[frankensooner]

What if a booster (Hypothecially speaking, I don't know if NU has basketball boosters given our traditional lack of success) wanted to buy a large quantity of copies for the purpose of transfering money to the player?
That would be stoopid cause royalties are jackspit, a dime a unit or some other nonsense.

[Fugue]

So long as they're actual sales, I think the NCAA doesn't bat an eye. I know they let the running back at Boise State knit stuff and sell it.

ESPN did a deal on this, you may have seen it. Some of the smack he got for his knitting was funny. "Go knit yourself a friend." heh

[royalfan5]

That would be stoopid cause royalties are jackspit, a dime a unit or some other nonsense.
Not if you release it your self. I have several friends who's bands have put out CD's themselves, and they get way more than a dime per copy sold at a way lower price. The materials to make and package a CD don't cost much.

[PhilTLL]

If he's a rapper, they'll screw him. Classical guitar or jazz trombone, he's fine. :)

[royalfan5]

If he's a rapper, they'll screw him. Classical guitar or jazz trombone, he's fine. :)
He's a soul singer and multi-instrumentalist. Bass, flute, clarinet, saxophone, guitar and piano. He tried violin but his arms were too long for him to be confortable.

[TopDawg]

This is very interesting. It does seem like an open door for some shaddiness.

Big time player puts out crappy cd on his own...rich alumni buy hundreds of copies...big time player gets boatloads of money from alumni but it's all above the table.

Heck, you could even take it a step further and have an alumni-sponsored music label that signs big time players to join the label and, conveniently, takes very little off the top of the sales.

[jkm, the stolen pifwafwi]

music is a no no. see luke axtell

[Frozen Sooner]

music is a no no. see luke axtell

I thought in Axtell's case it was "Flunking out of school is a no no."

[TopDawg]

music is a no no. see luke axtell

What about other sales?

[jkm, the stolen pifwafwi]

i think it depends upon the item. i know anderson hunt was making a fortune selling tshirts at UNLV as a walkon.

[jkm, the stolen pifwafwi]

I thought in Axtell's case it was "Flunking out of school is a no no."

the ncaa draws a line on any product where your notoriety as an athlete could influence the sales of an item.

[Frozen Sooner]

the ncaa draws a line on any product where your notoriety as an athlete could influence the sales of an item.

Like knitted beanie caps?

[jkm, the stolen pifwafwi]

i was curious about that. i imagine they let them go because of the scale and/or work involved. like i said, they allowed hunt to sell UNLV shirts as long as he was a walkon, but they wouldn't let luke axtell release a country cd with his sister (who is some kind of modern epileptic rock puppet i think).

[TopDawg]

I wonder if all forms of "art" would be out of the question. It'd be just as easy to make a fortune off of paintings or photography or something.

[Dio]

"National Communists Against Athletes"

Still true today.