I am not being facetious. I think it’s only a matter of time before, in addition to giving players walking around money, what won’t college football players be paid for? Folks will figure out how to give athletes college credits for making money. They will call it some kind of marketing class in the business school. If North Carolina can grant it’s basketball players 4.0 averages when they don’t have to take a single test or go to a single class, nothing is unimaginable.
The reality is that the average 18-year-old is stupid enough to think that they are a professional athlete if some local car dealership is giving them $50 a month. And then if they’re not playing they might decide to transfer to a program where the local car dealer will give them $100 a month.
Someone made a post earlier about athletes getting paid to sign autographs. I imagine a year from now everybody will be doing that. Hell, when Bill McCartney was the Colorado Buffalos head coach he looked the other way when the quarterback got his daughter pregnant. This likeness thing is going to spiral out of control very quickly.
The reality is that the average 18-year-old is stupid enough to think that they are a professional athlete if some local car dealership is giving them $50 a month. And then if they’re not playing they might decide to transfer to a program where the local car dealer will give them $100 a month.
Someone made a post earlier about athletes getting paid to sign autographs. I imagine a year from now everybody will be doing that. Hell, when Bill McCartney was the Colorado Buffalos head coach he looked the other way when the quarterback got his daughter pregnant. This likeness thing is going to spiral out of control very quickly.
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