CHARLOTTE \u2014 University of North Carolina athletes in all ticketed sports, including football and men\u2019s basketball, were sent a text message Tuesday to remind them that selling their complimentary tickets to games could impact their eligibility and violate NCAA rules.<\/p>\n
WRAL reported Monday<\/a> that, according to sources, some football players have been selling their tickets. A copy of the message about the tickets was shared with WRAL.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a friendly reminder that you are NOT to sell or exchange your complimentary tickets for any item of value,\u201d the message from UNC\u2019s athletics compliance office<\/a> read. \u201cYou may give the tickets to anyone you choose without receiving anything in return. Although some NCAA rules have recently changed, this rule has not. Selling your tickets or receiving an extra benefit still impacts your eligibility to compete in intercollegiate athletics.\u201d<\/p>\n North Carolina is in its first season under head coach Bill Belichick, an NFL coaching legend who had never previously coached in college football. The school hired Belichick, 73, in December, hoping to catapult its football program into national prominence. General manager Michael Lombardi last worked in college football in 1984, when he served as recruiting coordinator at UNLV.<\/p>\n The Tar Heels are 2-3 and have been outscored 120-33 in their three losses, all against power conference schools. WRAL reported Monday that some players and parents have blamed Belichick\u2019s culture<\/a> for the team\u2019s problems, citing multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of the football program.<\/p>\n NCAA rules<\/a> allow schools to give players four complimentary tickets to home or away games<\/a> in their sport and six tickets to postseason events. The tickets can\u2019t be sold by the player or by the person the player gives the ticket to.<\/p>\n The compliance office often sends athletes messages about different issues.<\/p>\n UNC sponsors 28 sports. Tickets are required to attend games or matches<\/a> in football, men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball, men\u2019s and women\u2019s lacrosse, men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer, gymnastics and wrestling.<\/p>\n In 2021, the NCAA allowed athletes to be compensated for the use of their name, image and likeness, which was previously barred. On July 1, the NCAA allowed schools to directly share up to $20.5 million with athletes. Of that total, North Carolina is giving $13 million to football \u2014 which aligns with the percentage of athletics department revenue that is generated by the sport<\/a>. UNC is sharing money with athletes in football, men\u2019s basketball, women\u2019s basketball and baseball<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 University of North Carolina athletes in all ticketed sports, including football and men\u2019s basketball, were sent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-207294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}