📡 Former Alabama LB Ryan Anderson rips NCAA: ‘Biggest pimps in America’

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Ryan Anderson won’t be sending roses to NCAA headquarters.

Recently, the subject of paying players has been all the rage, given college basketball’s time in an unwanted spotlight as the FBI’s probe into the sport’s underbelly carries on. Anderson, a former Alabama linebacker, chimed in about the NCAA on Tuesday night, calling the organization “the biggest pimps in America.”

So yeah, that happened.

Check out the messages from Anderson, who was taken by the Washington Redskins in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft:

Former Alabama defensive back Eddie Jackson, now with the Chicago Bears, also made his feelings known about the topic:

You can understand why Anderson and Jackson feel that way. College football is a huge business, and it has grown into an mini-NFL of sorts in recent years. Many different people and companies are making lots of money on players’ hard work. However, players aren’t allowed to enjoy a large slice of that lucrative pie.

Will the landscape change as more discussion takes place? It’s hard to see that happening. After all, players receive a scholarship. And in cases such as the ones enjoyed by Anderson and Jackson, NFL riches follow successful college careers.

Still, expect this issue to remain a divisive one as long as the status quo remains in place.

Former Alabama player rips NCAA: 'Biggest pimps in America'

 

[TUSKtimes]

There is a lot not to like about the NCAA. Just have to take one problem at a time. First and foremost the NBA will be discussing enlarging the G league system. If that happens the one and done are history.

I would also suggest getting the sneaker companies out of the sponsorship business. Including the seven on seven camps that are all over the place with 4 and 5-star football players. It's probably already an FBI wiretap away from being exposed.

Lastly, but most importantly, hang all agents like the dogs they are who are caught filtering money to college recruits for their 3 years in school. Seriously.

 

[TheChief]

I've made my feeling known about transfers. But complaining about getting $100 a month? Really? When I was on scholarship in college, that was what we got. A scholarship. Later, I worked my way through school for a time completing my first degree. I would say any player could quit and work. It wasn't fun. It was beyond any thing I did athletically. Players who don't like the $100 could make all the money they can earn by working. I don't think players should have the illusion they are working for living.

 

[BamaFan334]

There is a lot not to like about the NCAA. Just have to take one problem at a time. First and foremost the NBA will be discussing enlarging the G league system. If that happens the one and done are history.

I would also suggest getting the sneaker companies out of the sponsorship business. Including the seven on seven camps that are all over the place with 4 and 5-star football players. It's probably already an FBI wiretap away from being exposed.

Lastly, but most importantly, hang all agents like the dogs they are who are caught filtering money to college recruits for their 3 years in school. Seriously.

I saw a quote from LeBron James the other day about the NCAA and could only laugh at his hypocrisy. That guy drove a freaking Hummer in high school that was tricked out to the nines. Also read up on him getting free jerseys and clothes from local retailers in high school as well. He talks about how poor they were and how he had zero, yet his momma is given a loan for a Hummer? Agents written all over it. Now I totally get it was because of future earnings potential, but I bring it up because these guys in high school are being infiltrated just as bad as in college. Basketball is the world's worst with these infractions because of the one year rule and their ability to be closer to earning millions with that. James has zero credibility amongst Americans that are more realists. Sure, he has all the dumb kids and media sucking his fingers, but he is a part of the broken system and neck deep in all the wrong doing because he played right into it as well.

 

[TUSKtimes]

I saw a quote from LeBron James the other day about the NCAA and could only laugh at his hypocrisy. That guy drove a freaking Hummer in high school that was tricked out to the nines. Also read up on him getting free jerseys and clothes from local retailers in high school as well. He talks about how poor they were and how he had zero, yet his momma is given a loan for a Hummer? Agents written all over it. Now I totally get it was because of future earnings potential, but I bring it up because these guys in high school are being infiltrated just as bad as in college. Basketball is the world's worst with these infractions because of the one year rule and their ability to be closer to earning millions with that. James has zero credibility amongst Americans that are more realists. Sure, he has all the dumb kids and media sucking his fingers, but he is a part of the broken system and neck deep in all the wrong doing because he played right into it as well.

But the thing about Lebron James, Kevin Garnett and that group all the way back to Moses Malone in 1974, they weren't preparing for college ball. Frankly, the one and done the year after Lebron came into the NBA was like prohibition. Just tell somebody they can't do something and they'll spend the rest of their time figuring a way around it. And there are a lot of unscrupulous 3rd parties willing to help these kids find their way.

Moses, the year he graduated.

 

[BamaFan334]

But the thing about Lebron James, Kevin Garnett and that group all the way back to Moses Malone in 1974, they weren't preparing for college ball. Frankly, the one and done the year after Lebron came into the NBA was like prohibition. Just tell somebody they can't do something and they'll spend the rest of their time figuring a way around it. And there are a lot of unscrupulous 3rd parties willing to help these kids find their way.

Moses, the year he graduated.

I agree with that, but I was just making a comment that he isn't above the problem as he always tries to act. He bit right into all while penalizing his team through the suspensions he received throughout the season. What, he couldn't wait four months? James is a major hypocrite to me, and has been attempting to dabble into political affairs to push his agenda due to his platform, so I don't like him much at all. It's one thing to reach out to responsible adults and work on public issues and resolutions, but another to tweet out to immature kids that blindly follow his every word and fill them with words that aren't always the truth. Hell of a ballplayer, and I think better than Jordan with everything he can do at 6'9, but don't care for him at all outside of these conversations.

Love that hat Moses is wearing. Would be a good fishing hat.

 

[TUSKtimes]

I agree with that, but I was just making a comment that he isn't above the problem as he always tries to act. He bit right into all while penalizing his team through the suspensions he received throughout the season. What, he couldn't wait four months? James is a major hypocrite to me, and has been attempting to dabble into political affairs to push his agenda due to his platform, so I don't like him much at all. It's one thing to reach out to responsible adults and work on public issues and resolutions, but another to tweet out to immature kids that blindly follow his every word and fill them with words that aren't always the truth. Hell of a ballplayer, and I think better than Jordan with everything he can do at 6'9, but don't care for him at all outside of these conversations.

Love that hat Moses is wearing. Would be a good fishing hat.

Well, personally, I just took you for a Michael Jordan fan. But given the crapstorm the fox chick started about "just shut up and dribble" a few weeks ago I get his passion to offer a rebuttal. Her suggestion that he wasn't qualified to speak about politics without a college education was pure prejudice and couldn't have excited a lot of her Fox listeners who just suddenly realized they too didn't qualify.

Being recruited for college is something that Lebron lived through from personal experience and I suspect coaches were offering him the moon. Also, I don' respect the NCAA and they are at least as shady as the folks they investigate. But hey, at least we got a football playoff. See how life works?

 

[BamaFan334]

Well, personally, I just took you for a Michael Jordan fan. But given the crapstorm the fox chick started about "just shut up and dribble" a few weeks ago I get his passion to offer a rebuttal. Her suggestion that he wasn't qualified to speak about politics without a college education was pure prejudice and couldn't have excited a lot of her Fox listeners who just suddenly realized they too didn't qualify.

Being recruited for college is something that Lebron lived through from personal experience and I suspect coaches were offering him the moon. Also, I don' respect the NCAA and they are at least as shady as the folks they investigate. But hey, at least we got a football playoff. See how life works?

I really can't stand Jordan either to be honest. He's an asshole from every account I have ever read about him. Sickens me I used to wear his freaking shoes in middle and high school. If I absolutely had to choose a friend I would take James, because atleast he's not a grumpy old asshole.

I don't watch political shows anymore and I rarely dabble in the news because life is hard enough without watching rape, murder, child molester every night on the news. So the whole shut up and dribble thing I don't know a lot about in depth, other than I think he oversteps his boundaries sometimes with his knowledge of the world outside of being a multi-millionaire these days. I have a family friend that works marketing for Coca-Cola and she did a commercial with him and Sprite. She said he seemed nice, but his demands were unbelievable compared to anyone else she has worked with, and he showed up and left without saying much at all to anyone. The whole uneducated because no college degree thing can be overblown, though I get the point that most uneducated folks don't make it very well in our world these days with incomes not keeping up with inflation and there being a cap on your earning potential. Of course some do, but you don't hear about the numbers that don't, much like the athletes that are stars in college that don't make it in the pros. I'm almost to the point of just saying everyone should mind their own business and not worry so much about everyone else, though I know that will never happen with the way social media and the media works.

 

[rammerjammer]

If Ryan thinks the NCAA are pimps.....wait until he works for the NFL.

Thing is, this is life. This is how the real world works. Everybody works for somebody and ultimately has to answer to that somebody. I work for UAB hospital and the people that run the hospital make a butt-ton load more money than I do with a ton of perks I am not privy to. If you don't like how the system works.....then go do something else. You want to go to the NFL, you have to go to college and earn your education. I understand these guys work very hard for their "free" education, however they will never understand the burden of a student loan. They will never know the struggle of not having access to a tutor that insures you make the grade to keep your scholarship. This education sets them up for a lifetime of earnings that you otherwise would not have access. Because of his hard work now, he not only has the education to have a career and make it in life, he will also have the opportunity to pursue millions in the NFL.

I'm done with all the pissing and moaning of the NCAA making millions while the worker bee's get nothing in return. This is the entire structure of the capitalist American system, and it is what got us to where we are (which is pretty damn good, IMO). Company's make tons of money everyday and the factory workers get paid for a service. If they don't like it, they can quit, find another job.....whatever, but it is what it is.