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re: On Paying College Football Players.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 9:42 am to tylerdurden24
Posted on 9/9/15 at 9:42 am to tylerdurden24
Or, you know, just let them make money off their name.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 9:46 am to pvilleguru
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Pay them their goddamned money."
Don't play goddamned college football if you think you are not getting what you deserve. You can walk away and go earn as much money as you like waiting to get drafted by the NFL, playing in Canada or doing something completely different
Posted on 9/9/15 at 9:56 am to pvilleguru
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Or, you know, just let them make money off their name.
While I'm certainly for the principle behind this, the actual practice would be a colossal clusterfrick. Most athletes come from poverty (as the link in the OP states) and have little to no financial literacy of their own, let alone the ability to locate a trustworthy financial manager and/or agaent to deal with Nike, EA, Under Armour, Gatorade, etc. in their stead. Add to the equation the fact that these students have absolutely 0 time to deal with all of that on top of schedules that have them working from 5AM to 10PM throughout the week and it would cause a lot more harm than good.
Hence, I say let the schools continue to deal with those brands but compensate the athletes accordingly: everyone gets a base cut and guys like Gurley or Amari Cooper or Jameis who are the so-called figureheads of a program (or whose numbers appear on Nike jersies, for example) get an additional cut added. I say pay it out as a trust to reduce distraction during the college years but I also understand that a lot of these guys have families they want to help out right now so I could certainly see paying it out as a quarterly or bi-annual payment.
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