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Samardzija agrees with Cubs, will play for Irish in fall

ESPN.com news services

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs agreed to a contract Sunday with fifth-round draft pick Jeff Samardzija of Notre Dame, a star wide receiver for the Fighting Irish football team.


Samardzija's deal is for five years and worth up to $7.25 million, a source close to Samardzija told ESPN's Joe Schad.


Once the deal is approved by the commissioner's office, Samardzija will join the Boise Hawks, an advanced rookie club of the Northwest League.


Samardzija will be able to play at Notre Dame this fall. His plan is to play professional baseball and football after graduating Notre Dame and he is a possible first round draft choice in the next NFL draft.


The deal is backloaded and Samrdzija would have to continue to play baseball in order to approach the maximum value of the contract.


The Valparaiso, Ind., native caught a record 15 touchdown passes last fall. He then went 8-2 with a 4.33 ERA in 15 starts for the baseball team.

Joe Schad is ESPN's college football reporter. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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SDOGO

I only 2 problems with this.



#1. I have a hard time believing in todays age when $$$ and getting to camp on time and being dedicated you the team 24/7 is such a high priority teams ae still willing to spend a #1 pick on a player who may never play a down for you or be a part time player.



#2. Who the **** writes the rules for the NCAA or am I missing something? Bloom can't compete in the Olympics for his country and still play for Colorado but Jeff can sign with an agent and ink a deal worth 7.25mil and keep his eligibility!

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SDOGO

NM on #2, man the NCAA needs to review the rule books. What a bunch of messed up ****s who decided these rules.





Link (see pages 24 - 25)

Chapter 5</span>
Do’s and Don’ts During Your Collegiate Eligibility

Undoubtedly, you have many questions regarding a career in professional sports. Some issues you should consider include contact with professional sports teams, agents, attorneys and/or financial advisors. Hopefully, the following information will assist you in gathering answers. If you have further questions, please contact your institution’s compliance office representative.

You may:

• Seek counseling about a future professional athletics career through your institution’s professional sports counseling panel. The sports counseling panel can help negotiate a contract, set up an agent interview program, obtain disability insurance and help you understand NCAA rules.

• Request information from a professional team or organization concerning your professional market value.

• Be permitted to use your institution’s sports counseling panel or your head coach to contact agents, professional sports teams or professional sports organizations on your behalf. (Panel members or the head coach are not permitted to receive any compensation for such services.)

• Personally, or through your parents or legal guardians, or your institution’s professional sports counseling panel, negotiate with a professional team.

• Secure advice from an attorney or third party concerning a proposed professional contract, provided the attorney or third party does not represent you in negotiations for that contract.

• Compete professionally in one sport and be an amateur in another. (For example, you may sign a professional baseball scholarship and still compete in college basketball).

• Retain an agent whose duties are specifically limited in writing to representing you only in the sport(s) in which you compete as a professional. You may still retain your eligibility in the other sport.

• Have an “entertainment” agent for purposes of pursuing appearances on radio, television and theatre, provided your status as an athlete is not used to secure such an opportunity.

• Play in an individual all-star game after signing with an agent, provided team competition has concluded and you have completed your seasons of competition.

• Try out with a professional organization in a sport during the summer or the academic year while not a full-time student-athlete, provided you do not receive any form of expenses or other compensation from the professional organization.

• Permit yourself to receive one on-campus medical examination during the academic year by a professional league’s scouting bureau.

• In the sport of basketball, enter a professional league’s draft without jeopardizing eligibility in that sport, provided you are not drafted and you declare in writing to your institution’s director of athletics your intention to resume intercollegiate basketball participation within 30 days after the draft.

<span style="color:navy">• Borrow against future earnings potential from an established and accredited commercial lending institution for the purpose of purchasing insurance against a disabling injury/illness, provided a third party is not involved in arranging for the loan.

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Nixon

what? You mean rules and regulations constructed and agreed upon by bureaucrats are completely asinine, hypocritical and often times contradictory?! Say it ain’t so, SDOGO. My faith in the system is shattered!

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Gobears81

He is going to play another season of college football under Charlie Weiss....put up
****ing insane numbers and going to get drafted top 15 in the draft.

He is gonna be looking at over 5 million dollar signing bonus and a chance to
play in the NFL right away. He will then tell the Cubs to go **** themselves.

He will play in the NFL for 6-7 seasons then return to the Cubs as a broken down
starting pitcher in his mid-late 20's...in essense..the definition of a Chicago Cubs starting
pitcher.

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TitanFan

Is he actually any good at baseball? A 4.33 ERA in the college game sounds pretty ****ty to me.

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G-Men88

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TitanFan @ Jun 19th ) [snapback]1586086[/snapback]</div>A 4.33 era in college is considered good. Remember, they use metal bats and smaller fields

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imported_JGleas

Yea, I was about to explain it a little before you pulled out the rules SDOGO. What it primarily comes down to as a difference between Bloom and Jeff is that Bloom had to receiving money from endorsments to even compete in the Olympics. What Jeff is doing is just a job. It's not against NCAA rules unless he begins to receive endorsments. Like I said, Jeff is just doing a job. I do believe the Bloom thing shouldn't of been handled the way it did, but rules are rules. Even if it is the Olympics, you can't bend them becasue now Jeff could start trying to make excuses relating to Bloom to say that he now deserves to start receiving endorsments.

Yea, I think I spelled endorsments wrong

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Joshua Gleason
NFL Draft Spot

This is why the Cowboys signed TO

Nixon

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JGleas @ Jun 19th ) [snapback]1586107[/snapback]</div>Bloom had to receiving money from edorsments.

i <3 Engrish

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TitanFan

Shows how retarded the NCAA are. Reciving cash from sponsors does not make someone a professional by definition. However being paid to play another sport does make them one. Yet the amateur is being punished by a sport that claims to be run under the principals of amateur athletics. Personally I think endorsements are a great idea anyway considering everyone is making cash off these kids apart from the kids. Just look at the TV deals and jersey deals. They should be allowed to do endorsements and still be amateur by definition. It would also cut down the amount of crime within college sports teams.

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