Florida is latest state with proposed legislation to pay student-athletes

Gotta love these hypotheticals. This would never happen. They pay one player a mil to be a billboard what happens in that locker when his teammates sees he got a mil and billboard and they got a Happy meal at McDonald's?

What happens in a locker room when Drew Brees gets paid 40 million and Ray Ray Armstrong is getting paid 1 million?
 
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No it is not, it is the end of USC and Miami.

What is to stop Billy Bob's auto repair from paying an Alabama player $1,000,000 (funneled of course from boosters) for appearing on a billboard? You think Miami has businesses who care enough to do things like that?
What's stopping them from doing that now? It's not like they've been holding back on bags.
 
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Manny gonna use his pops real estate connects to put these kids moms in luxury condos and town homes rent free.

UM could actually do quite well in this landscape. We'll never be able to outplay the usual suspects, but we can pay in more creative ways (housing, vehicles, food, marketing).
 
What this will do is keep family members from being on the take... money will go straight to the athlete's pockets..
... also opens door to allow athletes to sign with agents to help manage this on their behalf
 
Colleges will NEVER pay players as long as Title IV is around but his bill will do more to unlevel the playing field than anything else.

Can you imagine what a school like Texas with endless amounts of money will be able to do with this bill??? Schools like Miami will be nothing more than a mid tier team.You think all the top kids are leaving now because of bags ? Wait till those bags go from sandwich size to large leaf size.
 
You think the plantation owners would have freed the slaves on their own accord? **** no!!!! Government has to step in and make this right.
 
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Earlier on Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsomsigned the Fair Pay to Play Act, which will guarantee student-athletes in the state of California will have the right to market their name, image, and likeness, thus dropping the gauntlet against the NCAA. Hours later, the state of Florida is following California’s lead.

House Bill 251 was officially filed by Kionne McGhee (D) in the Florida House of Representatives. Similar to its predecessor in California and other bills starting to go through various state governmental procedures, the Florida bill aims to prevent the NCAA and colleges from blocking student-athletes from receiving compensation for the use of their likeness or name.

Similar bills have recently been filed in South Carolina and New York, and more could very well be on the way now that the first domino has fallen in California. The bill filed in New York would also potentially allow a student-athlete to hir an agent and receive an even distribution directly from the school’s athletics revenue with every other student-athlete on campus. The South Carolina bill is more in line with the basics of the California law.

We’re not about to see college football implode or anything that drastic, but these are significant developments with the game and all collegiate athletics. The NCAA hates it, but the public opinion on the matter continues to shift away from the NCAA’s stance. Not everybody is on board (many coaches have voiced their concerns despite their million-dollar contracts), but there may not be a lot that can be done if state governments are stepping in and addressing this issue.
The good news is the possibility of the NCAA video game series making a comeback because of this.
 
What happens in a locker room when Drew Brees gets paid 40 million and Ray Ray Armstrong is getting paid 1 million?

And this is one of the many reasons why the NCAA doesn't want to pay players. Its too many moving parts. Its not as simple as us fans think it is.

That said, I am interested to see how this plays out.
 
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This isn't death to SEC or any other conference. Its death to an outdated, antiquated and at times corrupt, model that serves only bureaucrats at all levels while punishing some of the most uniquely talented and at the same time, economically vulnerable individuals.

Its not R or D. Both love the collective when they stand to benefit.

To paraphrase Jeff Bezos, there are times when government is required. There are times when non-profits serve the purpose best. And at others, and ideally, a marketplace is the optimal solution.

Its time for free market principles to evolve and replace for what is anachronistically called "amateur football".

Nothing could be more American than allowing individuals to capitalize on their skills and talents.
 
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