1st Round Entertainment Hosts Free Party, USC Football Players in Attendance
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 11:29 PM PST
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PrintEditors Note: While these pictures show current and former USC football players at a party hosted by 1st Round we want to make clear that we have NO idea if this is a problem. Students can party with other students anytime they want, but because of the vague claims on 1st Rounds website this does give some of us pause. The compliance office I'm sure is aware of this and will address this accordingly. We do not want anyone to draw any conclusion that any eligibility rules were broken by simply attending a party until we know ALL the facts. Thanks - Paragon
Teague Egan and the Lost Boys (i.e. 1st Round Entertainment) took a nose dive into relevancy Friday when multiple media outlets reported that USC freshman tailback Dillon Baxter, who had already been suspended for the team's Sept. 2 season opener against Hawaii for a violation of team rules, had accepted a golf cart ride from Egan Thursday - an NCAA violation.
As made evident later, Egan is a certified NFLPA "contract adviser," while 1st Round is a promotions, marketing company representing, well, we're not actually sure.
According to 1st Round's ever trusty, Facebook page, the fledgling company claims that it:
Catering to the college and young professional clientele we will host weekly parties in the downtown area and around L.A. LIVE with free transportation, free entry to all venues, and free first drinks because the "First Round's on Us!"
In the spring of 2009, 1st Round hosted an event at the J Restaurant & Lounge near L.A. Live, where multiple members of the USC football team were "coincidentally" in attendance. Take a look:
More photos after the jump
Galippo (left), Everson Griffen (center), Jordan Campbell (right)
Campbell
Ryan McMahon (left), Malcolm Smith (right)
Galippo (left), Shareece Wright (center), M. Smith (right)
Form your own conclusions.
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Props to my man CJ for scoring the hottest babes!
You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!
Kudos for actually keeping an eye on this Joey
Homers such as fans from a certain school that rhymes with schmauburn would just blow this off.
“Aw, it’s just them kids bein’ kids, can’t you just let ‘em have a little fun, ain’t nothin’ wrong.”
Rodney Sermons is my #5
by Brad Otton Is My Homeboy on Nov 21, 2010 5:23 PM PST reply actions
Thanks but credit to DFW as well
Saw a few pictures last night, but DFW’s link earlier showed some more of these. Props!
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 5:34 PM PST up reply actions
and, I saw it in the wearesc forums
it’s public on facebook and already out there in other forums. don’t blame me if anyone gets upset. :)
honestly, it’s just college kids at a party. no big deal. but, Dillon Baxter just got suspended for a ride from another student in a golf cart. as Teague Egan defended his actions to ESPN, paraphrasing:
“we did nothing wrong. I give cart rides to fellow students all the time. is giving someone a ride on the handlebars of your bike, or a car ride to a movie, also an NCAA violation?” -Teague Egan
he’s right. this is beyond ridiculous. Dillon may have to pay $1.50 to charity to reimburse for the “value” of the cart ride?!? the NCAA is an out of control organization right now. completely irrationale, emotionally vindictive, and as Uncle Pete said this weekend, “vile”.
if USC punishes a football player for riding in a golf cart, then maybe attending a party with fellow students, especially one who so industriously filed for his agent certification, might be frowned upon as well by the plantation owners at the NCAA. beyond ridiculous, yet this info seems relevant given the situation.
You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!
It's all about 0 tolerance
And you can’t blame Haden because he is trying to put back the Egg that Humty Dumty PC broke.
Lets face it USC fans and supporters the Bruins are superior in all aspects of life, heck I here they can wipe their Butts with their mind.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 21, 2010 9:39 PM PST up reply actions
The phrase
“the horse has left the barn” comes to mind. Sometimes I think we live in a sad world when everyone is trying to monetize everything. Coaches must become Cops, students become agents, and fans crime scene reporters.
Yep but yhr world is a mess from greed, hopefully it will change for mankind.
Lets face it USC fans and supporters the Bruins are superior in all aspects of life, heck I here they can wipe their Butts with their mind.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 21, 2010 10:50 PM PST up reply actions
More thoughts on this....
the photos are marked May 2009. per the uscfootball.com forum, someone pulled the incorporation docs for 1st Round. IIRC, it was later in 2009. meaning, it is HIGHLY LIKELY that industrious, spoiled, douche-brat Teague Egan was:
1) not a certified NFLPA agent at the time of this 1st Round Entertainment party. so, these really are just football players at a student party, and
2) I don’t even see Teague Egan in the photos. Joey, do you? I would be surprised if he wasn’t there, and I’m not certain that I can recognize the douche-brat anyway, but the 1st Round guy who eventually did become a certified agent, MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AT THE PARTY anyway.
Food for thought. Glad to see that BN finally has something to write about besides the demise of the Doucheweasel.
You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!
In response
1.) You’re 100% correct. Egan was not an NFLPA certified agent when the photos were posted to facebook in May of 2009. So, at the time, it’s not an agent-run deal per se, but NCAA violations could still have been committed.
2.) And no, I did not see any photos of Egan at the party, at least in that photo album. But still, entirely possible he wasn’t there.
Also, I know we mentioned this earlier, but Egan is not in the fraternity Phi Psi; he’s just friends with members of the house, which included Everson Griffen and Jordan Campbell. 1st Round co-founder, along with Egan, Sterling Brewster is, however.
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 10:31 PM PST up reply actions
God
Sterling Brewster, Teague Egan? where do they come up with these names!
Must be their porn star names.
No other explanation.
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 11:02 PM PST up reply actions
Whew! Someone posted that Egan was an SAE
but really, who cares. just glad he’s not a Phi Psi. not that Sterling Harrison Brewster is someone to be proud of either!
a bit more from other forums. I was kind of wondering how these kids got the money for golf carts, Nantucket vacations, and expensive private parties at USC. probably, all of their Dads are loaded, but certainly, Teague Egan’s Dad is loaded.
Michael Egan, bought and ran Alamo Rent A Car from mid-70s to mid-90s. Also, founded and managed through IPO, dot.com Internet bust theglobe.com. Teague attended the most expensive private school in south Florida, and the gymnasium at that school is named after his father. Did Teague take distributions from his trust fund to throw fancy private parties for USC students? Quite possibly, as it appears Daddy Egan is a billionaire.
You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!
Journalism ethics and standards comprise principles of ethics and of good practice as applicable to the specific challenges faced by journalists. Historically and currently, this subset of media ethics is widely known to journalists as their professional “code of ethics” or the “canons of journalism”.1 The basic codes and canons commonly appear in statements drafted by both professional journalism associations and individual print, broadcast, and online news organizations.
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Last time I looked it was a free country well sort of today, but the little freedom that exist is still around.
If some of us what to throw tea in the bay that is our business anyway.
Lets face it USC fans and supporters the Bruins are superior in all aspects of life, heck I here they can wipe their Butts with their mind.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 21, 2010 11:02 PM PST up reply actions
I posted an editors note at the top
We do not want to burn anyone but this is out there in the public domain…we need to be careful that conclusions aren’t drawn without all the facts…
by Paragon SC on Nov 21, 2010 5:26 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Yea, thanks for that
I tried to be intentionally vague. Here is what we have. There…
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 5:32 PM PST up reply actions
Great, Brooks is on it
well, I’m actually a fan of Brooks. I’ve always found him to be reasonable and logical. he’s quite clear that this might be nothing.
You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!
I'll let Joey and Para respond for themselves
but, it was already out in the public domain. and, it’s not like the gumshoe media hacks who thrive on creating buzz around USC’s mammoth sports brand weren’t going to dig it up anyway. beat them to the punch, then it’s easier to drive the narrative. hint, hint, USC Public Relations and AD Haden.
You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!
It's simple really
Someone was going to post them eventually, they’re relevant to the relationship between 1st Round and USC football and why not?
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 8:31 PM PST up reply actions
Someone was going to post them eventually
Great answer. (Sarcasm) That’s like a high school kid who tells dad, “Everybody else was going to do it!”
And why not, is to protect the USC program. Not everything needs to be posted. Especially if the reasoning is “Someone was going to post them eventually.”
I look for attention like anyone else who posts on the internet. I find using good sound judgment takes a front seat to looking for attention. I’ve posted things before to try to be first or to try to attract attention or increase hits.
Posting on the internet is easy, having sound judgment is not.
Joey didn't invent the story
I’m sure that the beat reporters would have heard about it by tomorrow. He’s just reporting on a story of interest. I will save my scorn for the 1st rounders. I understand where you are coming from lono, I wish this story didn’t exist, and hopefully it will amount to nothing, but Joey isn’t at fault.
Who invented the story is irrelevant. Responsibility in journalism is relevant. There are a lot of things that do not get published by beat writers, because SOME of them either have (a) ethics or (b) took an ethics in journalism class.
Not everything needs to be posted or published. There are judgment calls in journalism.
It’s sort of like you don’t say everything that comes to your mind, we all have filters in our heads that tell us what can be said and can not, or should or should not.
Some people squirt thoughts out of their heads without thinking of consequences. Some people think before they speak. It’s the same way with journalism. There are consequences. There are always consequences.
If you notice, USC told 1st Round to remove things and to take some responsibility, and he is doing that.
I think it is very poor judgment to post these photos.
Very poor.
1st Round is not taking responsibility
Teague Egan, for some strange reason, is under the impression that he is presented with the privilege of riding around the University Park campus, transporting athletes.
ESPNLA’s Pedro Moura just posted a story earlier today, which essentially states that Egan was told by USC administrators to stop the golf cart rides prior to giving Baxter a lift last Thursday. He disregarded the warning, and continued business as usual.
So, if you’re going to lecture about responsibility, I suggest you save that conversation for Mr. Egan.
As for me, I’m sharing what are otherwise public pictures. I didn’t take them. I didn’t even discover them. They’ve been shared on facebook, and as a result, I’m sharing them with the community here because the pictures prove that there is at leas some relationship between 1st Round and USC players. We, obviously, don’t know the extent of that relationship, but it exists nonetheless.
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 10:42 PM PST up reply actions
I'm not an ethicist
but as I understand it the goal of any journalist to present the truth. When reporters check stories, they check to see if the stories are in fact true. If they posted the pictures themselves, how can they contest their authenticity? There is no evidence (that I am aware of) that the University asked 1st round to remove the photos — it seems more likely that they removed them to protect their own interests.
I see this as more than just a story. I see this as a challenge to the whole USC community. We cannot hope to succeed in the face of these sanctions unless we regulate ourselves to some degree. What do I mean by this? Not being f’ing stupid. 1. Starting a sports agency on the USC campus — f’ing stupid. 2. Flaunting said agency on the internet — see #1 3. Becoming a registered agent, and talking about how you “befriended” numerous players — back to #1. The compliance office cannot do this alone — when we see this sort of thing we need to cry foul — speak out and get the problem solved. I hope that at the very least people will avoid their parties, and the university takes appropriate action.
According to the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics
The top priority is “an obligation to the truth.”
Pictures taken are parties; therefore, are inherently truthful, accurate.
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 10:58 PM PST up reply actions
It's called integrity kid
Any university can use more of it.
Instead of talking smack to Joey, you should direct your anger at the guy who a) brought a golf cart to school, b) picked up a player, and c) knew full well that he might get his school in trouble for doing so because he was trying to start an agency.
That’s the guy you should be pissed at. I my opinion, his actions demonstrate that he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about your school. I would burn that mother-fucker down for doing that if it was my school.
EGO TROIORUM MALLEUS SUM
by Bruins102NCAA on Nov 21, 2010 11:37 PM PST up reply actions
Far and away, the majority of USC fans are angry with Egan
I think Lono’s the exception here.
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 11:56 PM PST up reply actions
What the heck Lono Joe didn't make this up, so you think we all should just stick our heads in the sand and hope it will go away.
What are you going to become a politician next.
Lets face it USC fans and supporters the Bruins are superior in all aspects of life, heck I here they can wipe their Butts with their mind.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 21, 2010 10:57 PM PST up reply actions
Someone explain to Lono the exciting new concept called a "blog"
You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!
Well...
I’m not sure where journalistic ethics fall into play here because I certainly do not see myself as a journalist. For the most part I have been very conservative in what I write especially if I can’t confirm it.
I see what you are trying to say but if the first position you take is about ethics I think it shows a watered down argument.
You are entitled tom your opinion as to what is poor or not…we disagree.
There is plenty that I have not written about WRT issues within the program. Issues that I have confirmed with numerous sources. So I think I am a pretty secure in my position here.
Moura’s story said that the compliance guy told Egan not to give any players a ride…does it not make sense that compliance also told the players to stay away from them as well? Yet Baxter still got in the cart.
That’s part of the story as well…
At what point do we start holding Baxter accountable for these bone headed actions? And trust me there is a longer list than is being reported.
I agree with many here, i really don’t think this situation is a big deal, but we are not going to ignore it either. Showing these guys partying actually shows there is nothing to hide. Like I said above, students can party with whomever they want whenever they want. I would also agree that if the party in pics above happened before they incorporated the business then this particular episode is a non-issue but Egan also indicates in the companies mission statement that they want to get into sports representation.
He had a plan and this party could have been used to gauge the success of said plan.
Put another way…if we can put this together with little or no effort than what are the real journalists digging for? As we already know, Egan is not above changing or removing things from his website or FB page so this is a good way of keeping him honest…which can also helps the program.
Again, I actually think they help the program to put the whole situation to bed…I also think it exposes the crappy rules and sanctions we are facing. If you can’t stop inside forces from undermining you how do you expect to stop outside forces from doing it?
You disagree and that’s fine…but believe me compliance has been on this for awhile now, did they or you think that these pics were never going to get out?
A little more on ethics…if one of the beat writers posted this then what would you say? I have ZERO access to the program and i am not looking for it so the school can’t hold that over my head…would they take the beat writers access away if they posted it?
If I am going to be held to journalistic standards then the school better give me the same perks the beat writers get. I have protected the program more than you know but I cannot and will not sit everything…especially something as so far out in the open as this…
Do ethics in journalism even exist today?
I think they went out with the Internet. Look at the major sports media – Yahoo, CBS, ESPiN. Journalistic ethics are dead! Sports Illustrated and Michael Lev @ OCR seem to be among the few MSM sports outlets that adhere to some modicum of ethical behavior.
This is the age of Deadspin, paparazzi, and gotcha journalism. For better or worse, ethics have been decaying rapidly for some time now.
Of course, that is a wholly separate argument than the one at hand. Joey did nothing wrong.
You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!
Well, since we're block-quoting
And why not, is to protect the USC program.
My job is not to protect the USC football program. I am a USC student, and a fan. I’m not affiliated with the athletic department in any sense. Therefore, why should I be in the business of “protecting” USC football.
On this blog, I aim to provide information regarding ’SC football and other sports, while also expressing my opinion on various matters.
We’re not in P.R. We’re not associated with the folks at Heritage Hall. If I discover information (see: these photos), I’m going to post it, and if I have an opinion, I’m going to express it. Period.
by Joey Kaufman on Nov 21, 2010 10:37 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Right on
Rodney Sermons is my #5
by Brad Otton Is My Homeboy on Nov 21, 2010 5:29 PM PST reply actions
This whole thing is sad
stupid and sad. I am so tried of NCAA bs. I follow the sport because I like Football, not compliance — if I liked compliance I’d read SEC (the non football one) filings. Amazing reporting though Joey — muckraking journalism on a fanblog — that has to be a first.
if you don't care about compliance.....
why don’t you follow the NFL?
I don't ever remember hearing Daniel Harper's name before
So from now on, I will refer to him as Corey Hart.
Who in the world is Daniel Harper, is it Ron Harpers son or a Baseball player?
Kidd really has some guts to take this team that Garrett let get out of control plus PC.
Lets face it USC fans and supporters the Bruins are superior in all aspects of life, heck I here they can wipe their Butts with their mind.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 22, 2010 6:27 AM PST reply actions
Have to agree with Joey
Its its on facebook, and public, then I don’t see the problem with reporting it. It is relevant that USC players were hosted by this guy last year. Reporting that players were at that party is not implying anything other than they were at a party.
The NCAA does allow athletes to receive a meal from a booster. I don’t know if that applies to beverages at a party, but I wouldn’t think it would be against the rules to accept beverages from other students while at a party on campus. We used to have football team players at our parties all the time back when I was in school. It was no big deal.
Seems like SC did not do a good job checking out
Baxter’s character.
"Understanding is a virtue, hard to come by"
J. Airplane
Teague Egan's father
used to own Alamo Car Rental, and is worth more than $500 million. This is a kid who has no respect for anyone’s rules, and the cash he drops on all this is pocket change.
"I have a commanding voice." - Ed Orgeron
Young Teague must be a trust fund baby
You can't put sanctions on the fkn endzone! Bowls are for salad!
At the heart of anything that's rotten with America you will always find an Ivy Leaguer.
Football season is here
U feeling Loco?
It's not even a question
that Joey was right to post these pics. They’re out there and they add another twist to this thing. Egan’s relationship with USC football players is clearly not just limited to golf cart rides and just Baxter. Whatever you choose to cull from the pics beyond that is up to you, but these picture’s existence is news and it’s Joey’s job to post them if they are public and fall under the topic of USC sports.
Don’t shoot the messenger. This guy is a cancer that decided that he could take advantage of the fact that some great athletes go to school with him and all of them (unless Joe Houston is secretly Warren Buffett’s long lost son) come from humbler backgrounds than him. He’s gotten it into his head that he can either break NCAA rules (and California law) or at least come very close to it so that he and his buddies can leach off their later success and call it entrepreneurship. It’s sad and really makes me ashamed that he’s a fellow student.
Joey, on the other hand, works hard, takes his writing on this site and other outlets seriously, and is committed to pursuing his career honestly and with character. Try to keep some perspective when you’re choosing the target of your righteous outrage.
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