Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY SportsĬleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel will return to College Station, Texas, this weekend to take part in what is being billed as his first public autograph session since being drafted. Berea, OH, USA Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel (2) during organized team activities at the Cleveland Browns training facility. He’ll have all that extra time on his hands.By Thomas Moore 6 years ago Follow Tweet Maybe he can wrap it up during the first half of Saturday’s game.
Manziel rewrote the record books during his freshman season now he’s revising the playbook for rule breakers. Maybe then he’d have gotten a slap on the wrist as well. Green should have hired a lawyer, refused to talk to the media and threatened to transfer. “I’m not going to lie to them and jeopardize my whole season.” The NCAA looked at his bank records as part of a different investigation (involving Miami, if you can believe it it’s the sports version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon), saw a $1,000 deposit and asked him about it. Green, who was suspended for four games - that’s eight halves - for selling a signed, game-worn jersey (worn against Texas A&M in the 2009 Independence Bowl, if you can believe it) to a quasi-agent for $1,000. When the Manziel story first broke, I couldn’t help but think of former Georgia receiver A.J. So as a 19-year-old, he got away with producing not one but two fake IDs for police outside a bar, and the consequences were. In June, the Dallas Morning News reported that the university, not the football program, originally suspended Manziel for a year but that suspension was overturned, and it may or may not have been because Manziel said he would have to transfer to another school if it happened. For his arrest in 2012, Manziel was disciplined, according to Coach Kevin Sumlin, but he didn’t miss any playing time. Maybe the half-game slap on the wrist isn’t so surprising, considering the source. Miami’s college football program doesn’t normally garner a lot of sympathy because of past infractions, but should past behavior be taken into account? If so, Manziel’s behavior during this past offseason - not to mention the three misdemeanor charges stemming from an incident outside a bar a year ago - should be taken into account as well. Miami has taken to punishing itself - that sounds wrong - in an effort to anticipate what’s going to happen. The other investigation is apparently a mystery wrapped in a riddle. So one investigation is tied up with a bow and a faux punishment in less than a month and just in time for the subject’s season opener - and that subject happens to be last year’s Heisman Trophy winner. The Post Sports Live crew offers bold predictions for the college football season opener between Virginia Tech and defending national champion Alabama on Saturday. The Hurricanes will play their first game of the season Friday against Florida Atlantic. (You can’t make this stuff up!) The school made its final case before the NCAA two months ago - and still hasn’t learned its fate. Of course, the NCAA investigation ground to a halt when it had to investigate itself for wrongdoing by its investigators in investigating Miami. Actually, he’s so 2011 that’s when the accusations were first made. Remember him? No? Well, he’s so last year. Meantime, the University of Miami is still awaiting word on its punishment for the actions of naughty booster Nevin Shapiro.
Which is more egregious, the lightness of the punishment or the swiftness of the punishment? Yes. Less than a month later, the Aggies came up with their bizarre punishment, and the NCAA quickly rubber-stamped it after grilling Manziel on Sunday. What a crushing loss for a team favored by 27 points.ĮSPN’s “Outside the Lines” first reported that Manziel took money for putting his “John Football” on items later sold by dealers on eBay. After an exhaustive investigation lasting several weeks into allegations that Manziel received payment for autograph sessions, the school decided to make Manziel sit out the first half of Saturday’s game against Rice. Texas A&M’s half-game suspension of Johnny Manziel is one of the most ridiculous punishments meted out in NCAA history - and that’s a high bar.
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