TRYINGTOGETOVERVILLE, NC. — Thirteen football players from the University of North Carolina have been suspended for at least one game and nine of them have been suspended for four games for selling their school issued Air Jordan’s. Just in case you’re not familiar with how things work on big time college campuses let me break it down for you.
When student-athletes play sports at these major programs they are geared up (clothed) with whatever shoe apparel company’s clothes that sponsors the school. In this case UNC has an endorsement deal with their most famous alum, Michael Jeffrey Jordan and his Jordan Brand. Therefore, boyz get several pairs of sneakers, warmup gear, t-shirts, book bags, hats etc. Whatever they want they get.
Well here’s the stipulation playa. You can wear it but you can’t sell it to the homies or the the duns looking for the latest and greatest gear. That’s an NCAA violation. These cats were caught selling their school-issued, special-edition Jordan’s which is a secondary NCAA violation.
North Carolina tried to get out in front of this foolishness by self-reporting and suspending the players involved for at least one game and some were suspended for up to four games as I mentioned earlier. Nine of them got popped for four games including starting quarterback Chazz Surratt. Because they had so many cats playing the same positions the school had to get approval from the NCAA to stagger the suspensions. Straight foolishness bruh!!!
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! This is an example of players not caring about the team or themselves. They just flushed their entire season down the toilet because having to stagger the suspensions they’ll be without major contributors all season.
I would normally ride with the players on getting bread but they’re already getting bread. Back in 2015 the NCAA passed a rule that allows student-athletes on full scholarship to receive a monthly stipend at these big time schools of anywhere between $2,000 to $5,000 per year. Some of the bigger schools like UNC are paying boyz even more than that.
So if the semester is approximately four months and duns are getting 5 stacks per year you do the math playa. It’s two semesters that’s 8 months so it’s $625 per month for a dun that’s already getting room and board paid for.
How many other kids on campus are getting at least $625/month from Big Momma? Not very many. That $625 is for pizza, snacks, toiletries and other foolishness. And yeah, I know that the school is making a fortune off of the football and basketball players but the rules are the rules playa and if you get caught you don’t play.
I haven’t even brought up the fact that duns that are starters with props on the yard don’t pay for anything in and around Chapel Hill anyway. C’mon playa I went college. Do you really think ball playas like Chazz Surratt’s money is any good at the bars or restaurants in Chapel Hill?
We haven’t even pulled the boosters out of the closet that are still filling boy’z pockets on a weekly basis. C’mon playa! I told you that I went to college!!! I don’t have to be at UNC to know that boosters are putting money in boy’z hands. It goes on at every big time school and even at smaller schools. Stop it!
The foolishness of it all is this, they’ve put in all of that work to prepare for this upcoming season only for it to blow up in their faces because they wanted to get over and sell some funky shoes. They forgot all about the fact that even though they’ve been suspended for 1 to 4 games they still have to show up for every team meeting, practice and workout. All for a couple hundred bucks for some shoes that they were getting for free and money that they were going to blow anyway. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
2) Ole boy: noun – the person that I’m currently talkin’ about.