The world of sports revolves around money. Professional athletes make millions of dollars each season and produce even more for the franchise in which they play for. In most scenarios, these athletes attend college before becoming professionals. To protect the wholeness of the game, it is against the rules for any NCAA athlete to accept money from an agent. Sadly, many succumb to the temptation of free money. An uncontrolled agent base, financial need, and lack of supervision or education all play a part in college athletes accepting money or other benefits from prospecting agents. .
Agents often offer student athletes money, or bribes, to those who will inevitably earn the most money in hopes of persuading them to sign with them when they come out of college and have the freedom to do so. By accepting money from an agent, these young athletes potentially enter a moral agreement to choose that agent as their own when they enter the professional chapter of their career. The agents are in actuality luring these athletes to become clients through bribery. College athletes have to deal with the pressure of such agents constantly tempting them by offering money. These agents often visit schools on a regular basis, and even go to the extent of attending practice in an effort to strike a conversation with an athlete they wish to represent in the future. The conversation then produces further conversations down the road, so that agent can eventually develop a close relationship with this athlete. Although there is nothing wrong with befriending an agent, a shift in the relationship to a scenario in which the agent pays and provides for the athlete can result in broken rules. .
College athletes have to devote all their time to the sport they are involved in, leaving no time for a job to earn money. As Dexter Rogers states in USA Today, "Athletes are expected to work their collective butts off to generate billions of dollars in revenue yet are not compensated " (11a.
