30 biggest college football scandals of all time

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o (5) fights his emotions as he leaves the field after a 42-14 loss against Alabama in the BCS National Championship game at Sun Life Stadium on Monday, January 7, 2013, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o (5) fights his emotions as he leaves the field after a 42-14 loss against Alabama in the BCS National Championship game at Sun Life Stadium on Monday, January 7, 2013, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) /
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ATHENS, GA – OCTOBER 04: Running back Todd Gurley #3 of the Georgia Bulldogs runs for a first-half touchdown during the game against the Vanderbilt Commodores at Sanford Stadium on October 4, 2014 in Athens, Georgia. (Photo by Mike Zarrilli/Getty Images)
ATHENS, GA – OCTOBER 04: Running back Todd Gurley #3 of the Georgia Bulldogs runs for a first-half touchdown during the game against the Vanderbilt Commodores at Sanford Stadium on October 4, 2014 in Athens, Georgia. (Photo by Mike Zarrilli/Getty Images) /

Georgia’s A.J. Green and Todd Gurley made money off of memorabilia

The NCAA has a long list of regulations that it imposes upon student-athletes. One of those regulations pertains to charging money for signing autographs. A similar regulation exists prohibiting players from selling a game-worn jersey to someone who fits the NCAA’s designation of an agent.

The University of Georgia is familiar with the scrutiny and penalties that come from violating these regulations. It just so happens that two star Bulldogs in the past nine seasons have been busted for breaking these rules.

Wide receiver A.J. Green was suspended for four games in 2010 and then running back Todd Gurley was hit with a four-game suspension of his own in 2014.

Green, in 2009, reportedly accepted $1,000 from someone the NCAA classified as an agent in exchange for Green’s game-worn jersey from the 2009 Independence Bowl. He was then suspended for four games and donated the money to charity.

Gurley, according to Sports Illustrated, accepted more than $3,000 over the span of a couple of seasons before being suspended in 2014. Shortly after Gurley returned from being suspended, he then suffered a torn ACL and missed the remainder of his final season in Athens.