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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2626650, member: 488"] Legally, that might all be correct. Ollie and his agent may have messed up and they might pay dearly for it. Insofar as the public can observe the practical consequences of that reality, I would hope it occurs to them that this exposes a dangerous trend and threatens the protection of the worker on the most fundamental level. Contracts are intended to reflect the market value of the work you are being hired to and are negotiated and formalized beforehand to protect that labor from the emotions of dissatisfied investors. There is a reason they call it an investment. When the negotiation process becomes corrupted by self-interest and dishonesty, the entire system collapses. This is a particularly dangerous precedent because you have an already dangerous cartel - the NCAA - being leveraged by the schools to further displace money from the people actually generating it and into the hands of corporate types who want to sell tickets. I get that it seems like we shouldn't be throwing a pity party for a guy who is rich and may not have emptied the tank for us the last couple years, but this is a misguided way to go about fixing it because it applies a vengeful reboot to a system that only the open market can vindicate. If you want to take the "stop crying about it, he signed the contract" stance, I get it...but it doesn't make the school any less culpable and it makes me really uneasy about rooting for the program moving forward. It's not an ethical stance it's just the reality. [/QUOTE]

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