Five Easy Ways to Lose a Scholarship - Ethics

Tired of Free Tuition, Room & Board?  No problem.  Here are Five Easy Ways to Lose a Scholarship.

NCAA Bylaws - Unethical Conduct § 10.1: 

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        Refusing to Provide Information or Providing False Information During NCAA Investigations – Grounds for loss of an athletic scholarship.

·      Academics & Cheating – Losing a scholarship and expulsion for plagiarism creates challenging job interviews down the road!

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     Inducements & Benefits – Nothing good is free.  Fan boys & girls & boosters may offer free stuff, reduced prices, and excessive salaries to high-profile college athletes.  Identify the inducement and walk away.   

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      Banned Substances & Medications – Trading or selling prescription drugs like Adderall without a white lab coat or license is a poor life plan.

Sports Wagering (Brackets & Pools) – This only applies to enrolled college student athletes.  However, high school athletes earn bonus points from college coaches by communicating their understanding of gambling prohibitions. 

Seth Godin - Getting Started

Seth's take on breaking stuff and getting started on new stuff:

"If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin."

Seth - Tribes

...the first draft is a mess; it's supposed to be.

Alabama's Nick Saban on Process Goals

Nick Saban, head coach of Alabama expects his program focus on the present: 

“Be the best [you] can be one play at a time, like it has a history and life of its own – then do that for an entire game, that is going to give [us] the best opportunity to get the results [we] want.” 

More on Process Goals in Athlete to Entrepreneur.

   https://www.amazon.com/Athlete-Entrepreneur-Skills-Future-Leaders-ebook/dp/B074JS5B47/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502560630&sr=8-1&keywords=brian+brunkow 

Athlete to Entrepreneur: Adaptability

The Yankees HOF shortstop Derek Jeter made 56 errors in his first season of minor league ball.  A record.  He recovered. 

Athlete To Entrepreneur

Athlete To Entrepreneur - Five Skills Future Leaders Gain Thru Youth Sports

*** Now available for free download with Amazon Prime ***

Ch 1 Excerpt - GRIT

REJECTION HAPPENS.  Sometimes again and again and sometimes again.  Colonel Sanders (KFC) was broke.  In the 1950’s (when 65 years old was old), Colonel Sanders was…really broke.  He failed as a lawyer – the demise came when The Colonel punched a client.  Ethically questionable behavior by a member of the bar.  That is tough love.  Some tough lawyering.  He then failed in selling insurance.  Following that he failed as a restaurant guy.  He was 65 years old collecting a small monthly social security check....

https://www.amazon.com/Athlete-Entrepreneur-Skills-Future-Leaders-ebook/dp/B074JS5B47/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501953755&sr=8-1&keywords=athlete+to+entrepreneur

High School Sports & Concussions

High School Sports & Concussions - Stats

3.9 million — that’s the estimated number of sports and recreational-related concussions every year in the United States, according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”). The problem, though, is that you can’t see a concussion. 

Briefly, a concussion is an injury that changes how the cells in the brain normally function and is caused by a blow to the head or body that causes the brain to move rapidly inside the skull. The CDC reports that football and hockey have the highest number of concussions, followed by soccer, wrestling, basketball, field hockey, baseball, softball and volleyball. It’s estimated that U.S. high school athletes sustain 300,000 concussions per year; 67,000 from interscholastic football. The risk of concussions is highest in the 15-to 19-year-old age group among all age groups nationally.

There are tons of concussion management and "return to play" protocols available thru the CDC and your state's interscholastic website.   

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539198429/study-cte-found-in-nearly-all-donated-nfl-player-brains

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Spurned Major League Baseball Team

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Spurned Major League Baseball Team

College Athletes should always consult their school’s Professional Sports Counseling Panel (PSCP) when evaluating turning pro early.  

This story is an outlier but a few years ago the Philadelphia Phillies turned in an Oregon State University baseball player to the NCAA for using an agent to negotiate a professional baseball contract.  Contract discussions broke down, the player declined the Phillies offer, and he decided to stay at OSU on scholarship.  Or so he thought.  The Phillies felt burned and blew the whistle or snitched depending on how you see it.  

The mistake the player made was enlisting an agent as an unofficial “advisor” for the contract talks.  The easy fix is to avoid agents and use the PSCP to handle discussions.  This protects amateur status and scholarship eligibility.  NCAA compliance excerpts and story link below.

12.3.1  An individual shall be ineligible for participation in an intercollegiate sport if he or she ever has agreed (orally or in writing) to be represented by an agent for the purpose of marketing his or her athletics ability or reputation in that sport…

12.3.4  Professional Sports Counseling Panel. It is permissible for an authorized institutional professional sports counseling panel to:

(a) Advise a student-athlete about a future professional career;

 

(d) Meet with the student-athlete and representatives of professional teams;

(e) Communicate directly…with representatives of a professional athletics team to assist in securing a tryout with that team for a student-athlete; and

(g) Visit with…representatives of professional athletics teams to assist the student-athlete in determining his or her market value (e.g., potential salary, draft status).

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/report-phillies-turn-unsigned-draft-pick-in-to-ncaa-for-using-an-agent/