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big 5 will soon be paying their players

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according to article in la times this am

 

man those guys are smart

 

they know that will seal the deal and guarantee their dominance in football

 

that will be the end of excluded conferences

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Will also be the end of college athletics as we know it.

Horrible idea.

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This has been talked about at length in the "rumor" thread... as bad as this is for college football, it may also be our way in to the BIG 5 long-term...

This is College Football "Evolving" on speed!! so many changes, and nobody knows what's going to end up like...

Change is good for us!!

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Well, how many times have we commented that it's amateur in name only. Players getting perks from the local car dealer, mom or dad getting a 'job' from the local big time donor. Maybe it's just part of the evolution. What if there is a line of demarcation between the players good enough to play in the P(5) and get paid and those who are NOT good enough (let's face it...who would play for Kent State with Ohio State right down the road). Don't want to get into a cream rising to the top discussion but things pretty much shake out as expected. We've got MLB and the minors. Why not treat college football the same way. This is business, and there's money to be made. It is first and foremost a business, the business of entertainment. 

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i dont think a public university can justify paying a coach more than a professor if that school is in the minors

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Well, how many times have we commented that it's amateur in name only. Players getting perks from the local car dealer, mom or dad getting a 'job' from the local big time donor. Maybe it's just part of the evolution. What if there is a line of demarcation between the players good enough to play in the P(5) and get paid and those who are NOT good enough (let's face it...who would play for Kent State with Ohio State right down the road). Don't want to get into a cream rising to the top discussion but things pretty much shake out as expected. We've got MLB and the minors. Why not treat college football the same way. This is business, and there's money to be made. It is first and foremost a business, the business of entertainment.

My opinion is let them create a minor league football system then. Let tv viewership and everything else surrounding it fall to the level of minor league baseball, D-league basketball and arena league football. If the players want to go pro let them play in that minor league. If they want college educations let them play by the system or be eligible for NFL right out of HS.

I hate the idea of making colleges a professional minor league for football.

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As I said on a different post, paying you can't just pay football players.  I'm sure that would be a Title IX violation.

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I am so against paying college football players! Are you also going to play women basketball players and softball players and tennis players etc, etc, etc?

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I think Apis is correct.

 

The reason it is prohibitive to most schools (in addition to being ridiculous) is you can't discriminate and pay only football players.  Every athlete gets money - not like not paying for school, room, and board ought to free up some cash.  :rolleyes:

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Most schools, even in the P5, can't afford to pay their athletes.

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