Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…Yup. The name of signing is the first big post-TV money contract signing in the AFL-NFL war, but it starts a whole wave now of competition between the two leagues to go sign all the college superstars coming out. It gets pretty crazy. At one point, the NFL starts what they refer to as a babysitting program. This is literally a kidnapping program where they will send agents to top college athletes to our seniors about to graduate and literally keep them out of the hands of AFL teams, not allow them to sign contracts and pressure them into signing with the NFL first. They just put them up in hotel rooms and then they don't tell anyone where they took them. Nobody can tell the AFL team rep, this is where you can find the star. It's just like, you got him captive till you sign him. The interesting thing too is that the leagues aren't respecting each other's drafts. It doesn't matter if you draft someone in your league, I'm signing him to a contract in mind and that contract is valid in the United States. I don't care what your draft says. This is the battle front. It's with rookies and the draft. What they don't do yet is start signing each other's players. That's like hitting the nuclear button option.…

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