RonJohn
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I think this is a pipe dream and will never happen. Many of the schools that would be paying money are public universities. I think you will have some tax payers complaining about this as well as they will not be able to pay just the football players. Yes there is a lot of money generated by football, but not enough to support the other programs and pay all the athletes. The only way this could work would be to allow bagmen/booster to pay the football players directly and to do it out in the open. I don’t think they want to open that can of worms. Allowing that, no telling how crazy things would get, plus Uncle Sam is going to want his cut. I think someone will challenge the NFL rule to enter the draft again. I think The timing is right that the NFL would lose. If a normal college player challenge it and not someone like MC, I think you could get some of the public behind it and it could be a Huge wave that I don’t think the NFL has the power to standup against. I think that is more likely than schools paying players.
The problem is that if the courts rule that the athletes are employees, then the schools will have to pay the players. Could be minimum wage, but paid. It would also probably prevent the NCAA from regulating how much is paid to the players unless the players enter a collective bargaining agreement. Schools like Alabama, Texas, Texas A&M could pay top players lots of money. If the NCAA schools joined together without a collective bargaining agreement to limit the amount that "employees" could be paid, that would be collusion and isn't legal.