Quote:ESPN's Jay Bilas broke a story earlier in the week by typing in the name "Johnny Manziel" in the site's search engine. What came up was a variety of Manziel's No. 2 jerseys. The NCAA has maintained in the past that the jerseys don't represent a particular player.

On Wednesday, CBSSports.com was able to find an autographed picture of Bush on the site for $179.95. Bush was found to have taken extra benefits valued at thousands of dollars in the controversial USC case that ended three years ago.

Also, ShopNCAASports.com featured a Penn State Orange Bowl video from 2006. That was one of the 111 Joe Paterno victories that the NCAA vacated as part of the sanctions applied last year.

"We certainly recognize why that could be seen as hypocritical," Emmert said. "Indeed, the business of having the NCAA in those kinds of goods is a mistake. We're going to exit that business immediately. It's not something core to what the NCAA is about. We probably never should have in that business.

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First they quit licensing video games, now they do away with their shop (which was really just links to a third-party shop). They do not seem as confident as they once did in their ability (or in this specific case, their member schools' ability) to profit off of the athletes without sharing.

Must be blood in the water for the NCAA to walk away from any revenue stream. Their past indicates they'd whore out their families for a nickel, so they must be getting some legal advice to cease and desist.

(08-10-2013 02:15 PM)Knightsweat Wrote:  Must be blood in the water for the NCAA to walk away from any revenue stream. Their past indicates they'd whore out their families for a nickel, so they must be getting some legal advice to cease and desist.

...you're gonna need a bigger boat.

People really bought their school's stuff from the NCAA website? Why would somebody do that?

(08-10-2013 04:34 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  People really bought their school's stuff from the NCAA website? Why would somebody do that?

t-shirt fans of Johnny Football