re: ‘Gurley bill’ passes Georgia House

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You can not legislate this. See what the State of Alabama tried to do to stop agents after the Langham situation. It did stop the problem.

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Unfortunately this is true and to be fair there are very, very, few football players on full scholarship in the SEC that aren't taken care of and often better than they've been in their lives.

There just aren't too many guys like Mo Couch, who took a pittance from an agent because he was married and trying to support his baby. Even then it was nothing. Mo and his wife had talked about her and the baby moving back across the country to her parents house (someplace like OK) because of the bills (many medical) until they could get in a better financial position. So he took a couple of hundred dollars in the Fluker mess and was the only one punished because he was the only one left but Mo admitted what he did and apologized.

IOW, he took responsibility for it. He knew it was against the rules and did it anyway and would've done it again because of his circumstance. BUT most of these guys aren't anywhere close to Mo's situation although there's a lot of pretending they are and very few own up to it even when caught.

Point being, these guys are taken care of and they know the consequences. Some just do it anyway and the ones who cause scandals got reckless. They could've made plenty via other means but again recklessness + greed.