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[QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 3473124, member: 860"]
That's great...for Johnny Manziel.  There are 11,000 FBS football players, the vast, vast majority of whom the average fan can't name.  A HUGE number of those guys are going to pay a price if this happens, because the number of colleges playing D1 football will drop dramatically.  Kent State, Appalachian State, and LA-Monroe don't make nearly enough money to pay their players...so they won't.  They'll drop down to FCS, or drop football.  And among those 3 teams there's 75 guys every year that won't play football beyond high school, or at least not D1 football.

It's going to further consolidate the money to fewer and fewer schools.  I'm not even sure all the current Power 5 schools will opt in for this.  Some may decide, even if the money is there, it doesn't fit with their overall academic mission.  Maybe Syracuse will be one of them, maybe not.  I'm not sure how far down the rabbit hole SU will go.

Even for the schools which have the resources to pay players, the admitted consequence of this is to cut non-revenue athletics.  Which I guess some people are okay with.  I'm not.
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