Report: Former UNC player, considered agent by NCAA, bought Green’s jersey
The person who paid Georgia wide receiver A.J. Green $1,000 for his Independence Bowl jersey is a former North Carolina football player whom the NCAA considers an agent, ESPN.com reported Thursday night.
Chris Hawkins identified himself in Facebook messages to Green as a financial advisor and memorabilia collector, according to the report, which cited unnamed sources.
The report quoted Hawkins as saying: “I didn’t come at A.J. like a marketer or an agent. I’m not an agent. I talked to him about ‘Good game this’ and ‘Good game that.’ I wanted the jersey because I collect jerseys.”
Green was suspended for four games by the NCAA on Wednesday for violation of the organization’s rule against accepting benefits from agents.
Georgia is appealing the decision to the NCAA Division I Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement in hopes of having the length of the suspension reduced. The appeal is expected to be considered next week. Green is not eligible to play during the appeal process.
Hawkins, a former North Carolina defensive back, is “at the center” of an NCAA investigation into alleged rules violations in the Tar Heels program, ESPN.com said. According to the report, a source said Hawkins contacted several sports agents about their interest in representing North Carolina players in the NFL draft.
The NCAA defines an agent as “any individual who markets or promotes a student-athlete.” According to the facts of the case submitted by Georgia to the NCAA, Green sold the jersey “to an individual who meets the NCAA definition of an agent.”
It also would be against NCAA rules for a student-athlete to sell memorabilia to a non-agent.
“It’s in a frame in a basement right now,” Hawkins said of Green’s jersey, according to the report.
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Mike in Marietta
September 10th, 2010
3:10 pm
Is that Coach Friday from MHS?
Justin
September 10th, 2010
3:24 pm
UGA: illiterates, morons, thugs, and the Fulmer Cup.
That says it all.
Richard Hunter
September 10th, 2010
3:27 pm
if some one wants to crap in a jersey what business is it of the ncaa.
CDAWG
September 10th, 2010
3:27 pm
I don’t get why this guy couldn’t just keep his mouth shut if all he was doing was collecting jerseys. How did it get back to the NCAA? What did he do take out an ad and call everyone that he knew. Not only should AJ should have know better Hawkins should have to.
Mae
September 10th, 2010
3:29 pm
Green knew that selling the jersey was against NCAA rules, and only a complete jerk would not suspect that an agent was behind an offer for $1,000. Even a dawgtard like Green would have understood that.
His arrogance, and lying about the affair, should have gotten him dismissed, but of course, that would require some integrity from Saint Mark Richt.
There’s a reason UGA is known as The Cesspool of the South.
And don’t forget the Fulmer/Richt Cup, now filled with red panties.
AltamahaDawg
September 10th, 2010
3:51 pm
Actually, I would have suspected that a UGA booster, somebody just wanting to pad the pockets of a UGA player, someone trying to keep AJ happy and hanging around here longer, would be behind that more so than an agent. I doubt very many folks would have just assumed that. I know, what a complete jerk that makes me.
LizellaDawg
September 10th, 2010
3:55 pm
Here is a link for all you idiots that think AJ’s GAMEWORN jersey is only worth $100. $1,000 for a gameworn jersey of a future top 5 pick in the NFL draft is not uncommon.
http://www.collegejersey.com/store/listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=9
5150 P.O.A.D.
September 10th, 2010
3:56 pm
They are just 17-23 kids and kids make mistakes. Players are poor and need money or they parents need the money. Well, I know a few 18 yr olds that Joined the Army and the Marines to take care of their families. I guess Green thought he could better take care of his family by playing ball. All he had to do was play by the rules until he could make BANK. There many stupid and out of date laws on the books, but you better not get caught or you will still get busted for it because it is the law. You don’t like then change it orstop spending your money on a sport that has unfair rules. 55 mph on a 5 lane highway is stupid when cars are so well built now, but break the law. You get caught. You know what happens.
Keeping It Real
September 10th, 2010
4:07 pm
The whole plantation society known as the SEC(Vandy excluded) should be put on probation. Maybe that will happen sooner than most people think. Tennessee B-ball is being looked at now. Who will be next?
chuck
September 10th, 2010
4:12 pm
Ban the NCAA. Bunch of damn dictators. They have more rules and regulations than the IRS. Kick them out of business.
gdawginkalamazoo
September 10th, 2010
4:29 pm
Damn AJ broke the rule. He does his time. If you don’t like the punish or don’t think it is fair then don’t break the rule. This Hawkins character is a dumb a$$ stupid b@st@rd for for even talking to AJ much less “offering money” to him for anything.
I for one will not complain about his suspension or the number of games he will miss. I am just glad that he might get to play again this year at some point. We shouldn’t need him on the field at the WR position. We have tons of talent there and now will be their time to step and make name for themselves ON THE FIELD.
BTW, I agree totally with GTMom and her take on the athletes not being paid.
THE TRUTH
September 10th, 2010
4:38 pm
What UGA players HAVE NOT been arrested or suspended?? There’s got to be atleast 5 or 6 of them…..
superDawg
September 10th, 2010
4:51 pm
I say UGA should put nc on their schedule in place of tenn.and beat the ever lovin snot out of them.
the NCAA
September 10th, 2010
4:55 pm
is made up of the colleges-if you are going to ban the NCAA then close the schools athletic depts-THEY are the NCAA
UGA
September 10th, 2010
4:56 pm
is a member of the NCAA
Voluntary
September 10th, 2010
5:00 pm
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a —voluntary— organization through which the nation’s colleges and universities govern their athletics programs. If all you uga fans don’t like, get out
Voluntary
September 10th, 2010
5:07 pm
Just like any organization it has rules that it’s members agree to-break them and pay the penalty. AJ Green broke the rules, now he has to pay the penalty. Tomorrow UGA and SC both will play without players for rule violations. They are not the first nor will they be the last.
82Dawg
September 10th, 2010
5:24 pm
Why do all of you haters care what A.J. does?
egeagle
September 10th, 2010
5:32 pm
Waiting for a highschool game tonight, I’ve sat here and read four pages of drivel from a number of really bitter people. Tide Roll, just why did Cam Newton leave Fla in the first place? The BAma blowhards forget all about A this vatlbert Means and the ruptured Fedex package. But that’s how Phat Phil got the NCAA to look the other way after Tee admitted to having signed with an agent before his big BCS game. From this vantage point it seems that the AJC just loves to throw some UGA blood in the water and watch the piranhas attack. Most of this blog is dawghaters who do nothing but spew hate. And the clown big bad john is just as much of a pompous a$$ as Bill Curry. Y’all are getting big for your britches over there at Ga State. Ga Southern laughs at your program and will until you produce 6 national titles.
I’m a Georgia Southern fan, but you idiots from Bama, UT, Fla, and especially Tech make it easy to pull for Georgia anytime they play any of you.
Any one seen this
September 10th, 2010
5:36 pm
Tennessee men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl has acknowledged providing misleading and incorrect information to the NCAA during a 17-month investigation into possible recruiting violations. Vols athletic director Mike Hamilton is reducing Pearl’s pay by $1.5 million over five years and prohibiting him from participating in off-campus recruiting for a year beginning Sept 24.
Mikey
September 10th, 2010
5:39 pm
haha NCAA do the right thing wow…. That whole orginization is one big ****up.
crabapplejoe
September 10th, 2010
6:31 pm
Look at the postive side of this…with Green not playing maybe Georgia won’t lose any games because of excessive celebration…and maybe one of the Dawg receivers, like Kris Durham, will actually have a 1000 yard season….a feat the “great” Green will never do in college.
SuperB
September 10th, 2010
6:37 pm
The guy from Alabama gets two games for accepting two trips worth an estimated $2,000– and Green gets four games for selling a jersey to a non-agent for $1,000???
Myabe AJ should have asked $2 grand for the jersey so he would have to sit out just two games!
Albany dog
September 10th, 2010
7:09 pm
Let he who have never did nothing wrong at the age of 19 teen cast the first stone
Sorry Dogs
September 10th, 2010
7:26 pm
Uhhhh…..he’s a 22 year old red shirt junior. Just sayin………………
he knew what he was doing.
michaelj
September 10th, 2010
8:35 pm
Anybody that claims what AJ Green did is remotely comparable to what Dareus did is basically an idiot. Green sold his personal property to some wannabe. Dareus took plane tickets and probably a lap dance or two from an actual sports agent.
And people talking about the law in this case need to get a grip on reality. The NCAA doesn’t make law, no matter how much they tell themselves they do.
“or at least a runner for an agent”. What exactly does that mean. The NCAA’s definition of “agent” seems to include everybody that enjoys college football. This is purely bogus, and goes way back to college football TV money, and the fact that those self-appointed jerks in Indianapolis are out for revenge:
By the 1980s, televised college football was a significant source of income for the NCAA. If the television contracts the NCAA had with ABC, CBS, and ESPN had remained in effect for the 1984 season, they would have generated US$73.6 million for the Association and its members. In September 1981, the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Georgia Athletic Association filed suit against the NCAA in district court in Oklahoma. The plaintiffs stated that the NCAA’s football television plan constituted price fixing, output restraints, boycott, and monopolizing, all of which were illegal under the Sherman Act. The NCAA argued that its pro-competitive and non-commercial justifications for the plan—-protection of live gate, maintenance of competitive balance among NCAA member institutions and creation of a more attractive “product” to compete with other forms of entertainment—-combined to make the plan reasonable. In September 1982, the district court found in favor of the plaintiffs, ruling that the plan violated antitrust laws. It enjoined the Association from enforcing the contract. The NCAA appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court, but lost in a 7-2 ruling announced on June 27, 1984. (That’s quoted from Wapedia.com.)
tide roll
September 10th, 2010
8:36 pm
There’s not another school in the history of college football that has failed to sign THREE qbs from their home state that resulted in the three leading their respective school to NATIONAL TITLES. And then you do it again with CAMERON NEWTON. It’s absolutely amazing. You simply refuse to admit these monumental blunders and therefore never learn from them. History repeats itself at UGA. It’s GROUNDDOG DAY! There will never be another program like UGA. What a laughing stock!
tide roll
September 10th, 2010
8:41 pm
I was thinking maybe the DAWGS would break out their red britches vs. Carolina but maybe not such a good idea after Damon. STURDIVANT, GLENN, BURNETTE, ANDERSON, DAVIS and WIN. At least use Bean on some short yardage stuff.
Bride of Chucky Knapp
September 10th, 2010
9:01 pm
Free A.J.!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117211545000259
playing time
September 10th, 2010
10:14 pm
A. J. will play next year because there will not be a draft or a NFL season for that matter.
kevdawg
September 10th, 2010
10:21 pm
tide roll – don’t forget Hybl who was at uga and went to oklahoma and won one
George
September 10th, 2010
10:59 pm
AJ = Another Jackass!
Anybody perturbed that the chicken’s rooster only got one game?? Four for “Another Jackass” (AJ), and 1 for SC.
No bias here I am sure.
George
September 10th, 2010
11:03 pm
albany dog, we all shoulder the consequences of our actions everyday. At least those of us who have to work for a living. And, I’ll admit that list is getting shorter.
The info is posted for comments, some are good, some are bad. I coach 9-10 yr rec league football. And anyone who has coached a youth sports team will tell that kids do what they are told about half the time if you are lucky. Kids will be kids which translates to stupid for those w/o kids.
Pitbull
September 10th, 2010
11:12 pm
Bowl Committee; “Here is your gift jersy young man. Now it’s yours, but at the same time it isn’t yours. You can only do this or that with it”. Player; “Well if it ain’t mine, KEEP THE SOB”! Give me somthing that is MINE!!!! NCAA: “You can’t say that, you’re being mean”!
Another One Bites the Dust
September 10th, 2010
11:14 pm
Hey… all of of you take it easy on these dawgs….remember they’re not the sharpest tools in the tool shed!
Most of them should still be in kindergarten so give them a break!
rt
September 11th, 2010
12:19 am
He violated the rule make him set all dam year. Along with the rest of the scumb bags that cannot even read their dam name. Hell they all think that they are better than everybody else including E-lie. They are so dam dumb, if they had to study to make it through college, they would not finish. They give them the world and still want more.
Brogen's Hero
September 11th, 2010
1:18 am
rt what is the rule? The rule is you are are jealous loser. Go play with your slide rule you pathetic piece of crap. The North Ave Trade School losers again show there sad pathetic jealousy,
Brogen's Hero
September 11th, 2010
1:23 am
The bugs beat the dawgs once every seven years and are so proud. They get there one chance to beat a BCS in a bowl and fail. Why? They can’t beat there way out of a wet paper bag. The ACC can’t even sell out there ” Championship Game”! Tech and the ACC stands for “We are Losers”!!!!!
I-MISS-MUSA
September 11th, 2010
2:10 am
This is how you don’t worry about AJ. Treat it like a 4 game injury and someone (Marlon) has to step up (Washaun). Then TG’s D swarms. Aannnnnnnnnnnndddd RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO! RUN THE BALL BOBO!
DD795
September 11th, 2010
2:33 am
He’s just another member of the All Clark County Jail Team.
macrotech
September 11th, 2010
4:19 am
Why does anyone believe this garbage?, you missed my point. Players receive all kinds of gifts from whatever bowl they play in. Anything from clothes, shoes, watches, etc…..you’ll find a number of these items on ebay. Why aren’t we hearing about all of those? I think that Green SHOULD miss a game or two for his actions, but think that 4 games is overkill. The ncaa needs to be more consistent in these matters. In regards to agents, they should be punished for any infraction that they make….if they repeat….the NFL should black ball them! Who wants to be represented by a black balled agent?
im4uga
September 11th, 2010
8:37 am
When will coaches, ADs and players learn there are no secrets in life? When will coach Richt recruit players of the same caliber as himself and the coaches he hires? Then we wouldn’t have all this wasted talent sitting on the sidelines. I’d rather they played somewhere else, then THOSE teams could be missing good players instead of UGA.
Bob
September 11th, 2010
8:46 am
Has anyone gone on the ncaa.com web site and shopped for a jersey they sell. They have 19 different kinds of AJ Green jersies for sale. Who gets the profit from the sale of these?
Browndog
September 11th, 2010
8:48 am
AJ broke a rule and got caught, end of story. He is an exceptional talent but he is not available for three more games. Other guys have to step in and play. It is all up to the O line and the D. If UGA loses it will be because SC has a better team and plays a better game.
82Dawg
September 11th, 2010
9:41 am
Ok…. A.J. sold a jersey and got 4 games, the player from Bama got 2 games for the trip to Miami Both supposedly worked with the NCAA. Bruce Pearl who is a coach and is suppose to know the rules gets nothing from the NCAA for admitting he lied to them.This is one screwed up world. The NCAA sucks bottom line. Don’t say well U.T. cut his salary, they needed to just out fired his butt, that is showing the kids it is ok to lie. No wonder we have all of the problems with the players they see their coaches doing so they think it is ok for them to do it.Great role model there Bruce….
hoochbear
September 13th, 2010
3:20 pm
I vote for a two game suspension for AJ. it ought to be a good shot up his. that being said, you’ve been warned. next time its the season.
btw if anyone up in carolina would like to collect a planeload of these agents and theit runners and send them on a fine tropical vacation at GITMO with no cell phones allowed, it wouldnt hurt my feelings. And maybe the FBI would let it slide too.
Come to think of it, maybe scouts and runners ought to have to wear a big coat with the letter “P” emblazoned on the front. Like Nick Saban said: Pimps. And a big “A” on the rear for *sshol.