{"id":2168,"date":"2012-01-31T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2012-01-31T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:40:17","slug":"luther-campbell-calling-out-drew-rosenhaus-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/luther-campbell-calling-out-drew-rosenhaus-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Luther Campbell Calling Out Drew Rosenhaus? Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Now I love Uncle Luke. \u00a0I don’t know that you will find many who wore the University of Miami uniform who don’t. \u00a0You know whenever someone starts it off by saying they love somebody, \u00a0there’s another shoe about to drop. \u00a0I have to call him out on his recent article written in Miami New Times about super agent Drew Rosenhaus entitled: Drew Rosenhaus is the Gordon Gekko of Sports Agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Luke’s article he references Terrell Owen’s quotes about how Rosenhaus referred him to financial planners who steered him into poor and risky investments that eventually flopped. \u00a0Luke also calls Rosenhaus out for having never donated a dime to the youth leagues in the inner city of Miami, \u00a0the place where a great deal of his clients come from (according to Luke). \u00a0Luke also takes Drew to task on failing to teach his clients fiscal responsibility and stated that Rosenhaus “preys on under privileged African Americans.”<\/p>\n

Now hold on! \u00a0First of all, \u00a0it’s not Rosenhaus’ responsibility to teach his clients fiscal responsibility. \u00a0It would be nice but it’s not what he was hired to do. \u00a0How can we even be sure that Rosenhaus is fiscally responsible? Hell, everyone thought Leigh Steinberg was fiscally responsible didn’t they? \u00a0Word from bankruptcy court is that he’s not. \u00a0Rosenhaus was hired to get the most money out of NFL teams for his clients and it seems as though he’s pretty good at that. \u00a0I never bought a set of steak knives from Luther Campbell but I damned sure bought his albums because he made good music that people wanted to listen to. \u00a0My point is, \u00a0Drew Rosenhaus is a NFL agent, \u00a0not a financial advisor.<\/p>\n

Why should Rosenhaus donate money to the youth leagues in the inner city, because Luther Campbell started and runs one? \u00a0Seems a little self serving doesn’t it? \u00a0Isn’t this what Luke is accusing Drew of? \u00a0If Rosenhaus delivers a couple of grand to the Liberty City Optimist League will that make everything he does o.k. with Luke? \u00a0I don’t know but the article sure comes off like this would be the case. \u00a0So Rosenhaus should donate to the charities that are near and dear to Luke’s heart? \u00a0I doubt Luke did any research on what charities Rosenhaus donates to. \u00a0For all we know, \u00a0Rosenhaus donates to the United Negro College Fund or to an inner city literacy movement. \u00a0All Luke knows is that Drew signed players from Miami’s inner city and he did not donate to Luke’s league so that’s a problem. \u00a0Almost like Luke is charging Rosenhaus a fee for picking up players from the city he lives in.<\/p>\n

I sure recall some of Luke’s artists accusing him of taking money from them back in the day. \u00a0Now one of two things happened. \u00a0Either Luke fleeced them out of some cash or his artists were frivolous and care free in their money management. \u00a0When all the money was gone, \u00a0the artists were looking for someone to blame and Luke was it. \u00a0I tend to believe the latter as experience would tell me. \u00a0This seems kind of similar to what T.O. is doing with Rosenhaus. \u00a0Guess who’s responsibility T.O.’s money is? \u00a0T.O.’s !!<\/p>\n

Athletes getting lazy and using their agent as their all everything when the agent’s prowess is contract negotiation is a mistake. \u00a0That’s a mistake made by the athlete. \u00a0The agent is going to be the agent.\"\" \u00a0They make deals and they will make deals with investment firms, insurance firms, real estate firms and they will steer clients to those firms they have deals with. \u00a0It’s on the athlete to do their research on the firms and make sound decisions on the most important commodity which is their money.<\/p>\n

I played on a team with Michael Barrow, Darrin Smith and Jesse Armstead. \u00a0They all played in the NFL for quite some time but none of them made half of the money T.O. did. \u00a0All three of them seem to be doing quite well for themselves and they have all been out of the game for quite some time. \u00a0None them had a privileged up bringing but they were all wise about “their” money. \u00a0How’d that happen?<\/p>\n

Can we stop expecting others to look out for us? \u00a0Can we grab the bull by the horns and handle our own affairs? \u00a0I attended a rookie symposium once and there were quite a few in attendance who seemed quite disinterested in the messages being sent their way with regards to women and money. \u00a0Let’s not cry now and point fingers when the money’s all gone. \u00a0If T.O. knew nothing at all about money he could have saved himself by asking Drew one simple question, “do you have money in this Alabama casino deal?’. \u00a0That would have given him quite a bit of answers wouldn’t it?<\/p>\n

Drew Rosenhaus is from North Miami and Luke is from Liberty City. \u00a0Both made a substantial amount of money in their lifetime. \u00a0Who do you think should teach inner city youth about fiscal responsibility? Luke was not out donating money to pregnant teens or preaching sexual responsibility to the thousands of white teens who purchased his albums in the 80′ and 90’s. \u00a0However, \u00a0I sure know there was one thing on a person’s mind when they were listening to the Two Live Crew or Luke’s records. \u00a0Luther Campbell benefited greatly from record sales amongst white american teens. \u00a0Did he shell out some money to help them when the loose talk of sex help them get naked? \u00a0Let’s not be the pot calling the kettle black.<\/p>\n

We can start with pushing reading harder in our inner cities. \u00a0I think Luke could lead the charge. \u00a0If we open up their minds to reading which leads to learning then teaching them about money after that will stick. \u00a0I think Luke could lead the charge on that. \u00a0We can get books and magazines to replace the iPods and Beat headphones every now and then. \u00a0Luke can lead the charge on that. \u00a0If the message in the inner city is not coming in the form of a hip hop rap or from some half dressed female, \u00a0them most aren’t trying to hear it. \u00a0Reading can go a long way in curing that mentality. \u00a0Luke can lead the charge on that. \u00a0If we want to wait around on sports agents to pour their time and effort into these objectives then we can get ready to read about more stories like T.O.’s.<\/p>\n

I guess ultimately, \u00a0Luke on a smaller scale, \u00a0is doing to Drew what was done to him. \u00a0When he obtained a certain amount of status as a performer based mostly on another race being his customer, \u00a0the establishment tried to shut him down. \u00a0However, \u00a0this doesn’t make it right. \u00a0How about if Luke, \u00a0now that he has assassinated Rosenhaus’ character, \u00a0collaborate with the agent and direct him to some charities or outlets where he would do well to pay attention? \u00a0Again, \u00a0I love me some Luke but I have to call b.s. on this one. What Luke may realize is that he’s more like Rosenhaus than he thought.<\/p>\n

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