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Illegal Procedure:Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Biz of College Football
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:27 pm
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:27 pm
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Has anyone read this book?
Book Desription
For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise of representation on their lucrative pro contracts. After cleaning up his act in 2003, he moved to a new agency, only to be targeted and pushed out of the business for a new violation-one he arguably did not commit. Then, in October 2010, Luchs wrote a confessional article in Sports Illustrated, telling the truth about what he did and didn't do.
Since then he has taken on a new role: whistle-blowing, truth-telling reformer. And in telling his own story, Luchs pulls back the curtain on the real economy of college football: how agents win players legally and otherwise, the staggering sums colleges make from an unpaid workforce, the shortfalls of supposed full-ride scholarships, and the myth of a college education given to scholarship jocks. Including new information about major players and scandalized programs such as USC, Auburn, and Ohio State, this book pulls no punches. It's a stunning and necessary read for anyone who loves the game, and the first step toward fixing a broken system.
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Just read some reviews
part of one review:
At times it is hard to believe that this naïve Jewish kid growing up in Beverly Hills, a real schmegegge at times, could do things like give an NFL star clean urine for a drug test or tap into his Bar Mitzvah money to bribe a college athlete. Yet while you want to hate the messenger, a man who admittedly flaunted almost every rule in the book, Luchs' honest and self-deprecating narration makes the reader empathize with an agent just trying to succeed in a broken system. Luchs masterfully weaves his personal life into this nonstop shocker of admissions and revelations about just how crooked the business of college football really is. He does so by dishing out the truth about hypocritical college coaches like Nick Saban, who grants his own agent unlimited access to the locker room while publicly referring to agents as "pimps," or devout Christian Jim Tressel, who rigged summer camp raffles to make sure his top recruits won prizes. Nobody is safe.
Reviews
Has anyone read this book?
Book Desription
For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise of representation on their lucrative pro contracts. After cleaning up his act in 2003, he moved to a new agency, only to be targeted and pushed out of the business for a new violation-one he arguably did not commit. Then, in October 2010, Luchs wrote a confessional article in Sports Illustrated, telling the truth about what he did and didn't do.
Since then he has taken on a new role: whistle-blowing, truth-telling reformer. And in telling his own story, Luchs pulls back the curtain on the real economy of college football: how agents win players legally and otherwise, the staggering sums colleges make from an unpaid workforce, the shortfalls of supposed full-ride scholarships, and the myth of a college education given to scholarship jocks. Including new information about major players and scandalized programs such as USC, Auburn, and Ohio State, this book pulls no punches. It's a stunning and necessary read for anyone who loves the game, and the first step toward fixing a broken system.
LINK
Just read some reviews
part of one review:
At times it is hard to believe that this naïve Jewish kid growing up in Beverly Hills, a real schmegegge at times, could do things like give an NFL star clean urine for a drug test or tap into his Bar Mitzvah money to bribe a college athlete. Yet while you want to hate the messenger, a man who admittedly flaunted almost every rule in the book, Luchs' honest and self-deprecating narration makes the reader empathize with an agent just trying to succeed in a broken system. Luchs masterfully weaves his personal life into this nonstop shocker of admissions and revelations about just how crooked the business of college football really is. He does so by dishing out the truth about hypocritical college coaches like Nick Saban, who grants his own agent unlimited access to the locker room while publicly referring to agents as "pimps," or devout Christian Jim Tressel, who rigged summer camp raffles to make sure his top recruits won prizes. Nobody is safe.
Reviews
This post was edited on 4/13/12 at 10:29 pm
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Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:28 pm to Pigfeet
yeah its been out there for a while. guy was a slimeball, now he's trying to make money off being a slimeball. frick him.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:29 pm to secfan123
Is it worth buying/reading?
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Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:31 pm to Pigfeet
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Is it worth buying/reading?
havent read it yet. he did an article for SI a while back that i read. came off as a little whiny that the players he paid werent REALLY his friends. Im sure it will be interesting, and probably at least a little (30 percent or so) embellished.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:32 pm to Pigfeet
I recently read Three& Out (the rich rod tenure in michigan) Double Cross Double T (the mike leach texas tech thing) and Meat Market (centered on recruiting @ ole miss under ed oregon) they were all great.
I am fixing to get the agent book on my nook as soon as it can be downloaded
I am fixing to get the agent book on my nook as soon as it can be downloaded
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:33 pm to secfan123
thanks, some of the reviews are saying that his book came off as more legit than the SI article. Who knows, may go ahead and get it.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:34 pm to secfan123
Damn people will make up any excuse to keep their head buried in the sand if it doesn't please them.
Of course he is/was a slimeball - that's the whole point - he was in the business.
You have to get dirty to rake up the muck.
Of course he is/was a slimeball - that's the whole point - he was in the business.
You have to get dirty to rake up the muck.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:35 pm to KillianRussell
how were those 3 books and do rcommend any of them?
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:37 pm to Pigfeet
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thanks, some of the reviews are saying that his book came off as more legit than the SI article. Who knows, may go ahead and get it.
let us know what you think
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:38 pm to secfan123
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havent read it yet. he did an article for SI a while back that i read. came off as a little whiny that the players he paid werent REALLY his friends. Im sure it will be interesting, and probably at least a little (30 percent or so) embellished.
The most important thing to remember is that when someone like this tells you the "truth" (especially if it's a truth you want to hear), is that they have an agenda. You just have to take what you read with a grain of salt.
It's more important to question what you read than it is to engage in the act of reading.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:40 pm to Pigfeet
I went into the Rich Rod book thinkin he was a jerk off by the time I finished I felt like he deserve a medal of honor for putting up with the bull shite in Ann Arbor and not catching a case.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:41 pm to Zamoro10
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Damn people will make up any excuse to keep their head buried in the sand if it doesn't please them.
Who's burying their head. Read my sentence again. Slower. Now think for a minute.
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Of course he is/was a slimeball - that's the whole point - he was in the business.
This has what to do with what, exactly?
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You have to get dirty to rake up the muck.
And? I didnt say he was out and out lying. But ive read enough of these types of books to know those who write them generally embellish thier tales to some extent. Why? Simple. It sells more books. If you dont know that, then your the naive one.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:42 pm to Pigfeet
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Has anyone read this book?
Already saw the movie. Jerry Maguire.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:43 pm to KillianRussell
You do also understand those books just tell one side. That's why I don't generally like them. But the one book I did find interesting was the Rich Rod book, because he admitted he was outmatched.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:44 pm to KillianRussell
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I went into the Rich Rod book thinkin he was a jerk off by the time I finished I felt like he deserve a medal of honor for putting up with the bull shite in Ann Arbor and not catching a case.
just remember, all authors have agendas, and NONE, despite what might even be their best intentions, are objective
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:45 pm to sms151t
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But the one book I did find interesting was the Rich Rod book, because he admitted he was outmatched.
outmatched how? on the field, recruiting?
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:45 pm to sms151t
I felt the slant in the Leach book, I found Rich Rod a funny mudder fugger I now dig the guy
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:49 pm to secfan123
He didn't understand what Michigan was/is. Michigan is the homecoming/prom queen Miss Universe and Playboy Centerfold of NCAA. It makes LSU look like the girl with freckles and braces at the dance.
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:51 pm to sms151t
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He didn't understand what Michigan was/is. Michigan is the homecoming/prom queen Miss Universe and Playboy Centerfold of NCAA. It makes LSU look like the girl with freckles and braces at the dance.
so in what context was he using "outmatched?"
Posted on 4/13/12 at 10:55 pm to secfan123
Michigan was something that was way over his head. He didn't understand the scrutiny, the arrogance, the way you are supposed to be a Michigan Man. Michigan is a lifestyle that is not easy to break into if you're an outsider.
Remember what Bo said when he fired Frieder, "I want a Michigan man to coach a Michigan team.". Well it hasn't changed in any sport.
Remember what Bo said when he fired Frieder, "I want a Michigan man to coach a Michigan team.". Well it hasn't changed in any sport.
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