Post champs drama

[Sir X]

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/l...ssault-athlete

[Sir X]

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/n...athlete-raheem

[Mosiah]

"It is a very serious allegation and we are going to report it to the principal for her to investigate or see what actions or [if] there is any truth to the alleged allegation," said Forbes.

[Islandman]

Ah boy. As you say, Champs as we knew it is over. This is a different beast we are dealing with.

[Mosiah]

Ah boy. As you say, Champs as we knew it is over. This is a different beast we are dealing with.

The minister of education needs to rein in this beast. ISSA has no idea what it has got itself into, and most of us don't have a clue either. Pandora never knew her box was so deep!

We need to get back to full amateur status for our students, unless they are forfeiting high school sports. In hindsight, Hyde and Ohara should have been ineligible for Champs. Matters not when the contract was signed. His ineligibility begins the first day he allows himself to be approached by a corporation.

And ISSA needs to step aside and assume the role of police more than anything else. Allow the pros to run your competitions while you make sure the rules are being adhered to, starting with this reckless transfer system.

[Islandman]

Sass, I guess this is a "great" move by Digicel too?

[Assasin]

Again, these are some of the reasons transfer happens but nobody knows.

It is kept secret and hush hush, Some a these things a gwaan long time, maybe not to such and extent but abusing of athletes etc.

Now if you had a kid in that school running for that program, what would you do??? especially when no action will be taken against the school and most likely the teacher.

[Islandman]

That is true. A lot of this is not new especially in the schools that are not high profile.

[Assasin]

I support every word Mosiah said above. I was surprised to see Hyde running at Champs.

As currently is, Digicel has benefited from it. The can sign athletes while in school, have them be ambassador and promoting their brand, in and out of school, get them to expose their brand as Ohara did, and they can deny that they had anything to do with it.

I-man these are decisions made in the board room to take advantage of our weak administrators.

[Islandman]

I agree with you that it is the result of weak administration and rules, and sooner or later some company would do it once they saw commercial benefit to it.

However if the public backlash increases, and I hope it does, then what they clearly thought was great ambush marketing might not look that way.

[Gamma]

yes... it is

[Jangle]

The minister of education needs to rein in this beast. ISSA has no idea what it has got itself into, and most of us don't have a clue either. Pandora never knew her box was so deep!

We need to get back to full amateur status for our students, unless they are forfeiting high school sports. In hindsight, Hyde and Ohara should have been ineligible for Champs. Matters not when the contract was signed. His ineligibility begins the first day he allows himself to be approached by a corporation.

And ISSA needs to step aside and assume the role of police more than anything else. Allow the pros to run your competitions while you make sure the rules are being adhered to.

I agree with everything you said here.

[Sir X]

I have to take the alternate view because Mo posted it ,it sounds sensible ,so I will try to make more sense .

The day after champs on youtube , 20k viewed the 4x400, we are talking at $ 9 a pop 180k,thats being conservative( 2 mill- Jamaican),if 3 times that amount logged on we are talking 540,000 USA $$$ translated $61 million Jamaican dollars.That is alot of revenue that can be put back into education,keep in mind projected to grow.

Now ISSA has been drawn into the 21st century of commercilization,i say dont be scared of it, embrace it , source a marketing arm and call all stakeholders to a meeting of minds ,to see how this new found wealth can be spread evenly amongst the land to put this revenue back into education.

This commercilization isnt going anywhere ,parameters need to be set that honors our ethical educational standards and balance our comercilzation interest in champs.

[Gamma]

patience grasshopper ...

[Sir X]

Okay sah .