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[QUOTE="maxxyz, post: 2355780, member: 350"]
So many things in this post.

Right now a college football player’s market value is a college scholarship for tuition, room, board and a stipend.  There isn’t a Euro league. Can they play in Canada?  Or on a practice squad?   There beef is with the NFL which puts an age restriction on players, which by the way the Players union approves.

Title IX in a nutshell - if you pay 85 college football players $25,000 to play, you have to also pay the same to 85 female college athletes at that school the same amount.

People buy jerseys with a players name on it, but they buy because of the team as well.  Let players try and sell a generic jersey with his name but no SU colors or logo. Chicken vs egg argument.

Within the NCAA as it is now there is no good way to pay players.  Especially football players.  They should get rid of the ‘student athlete’ designation and just have a team made up of professionals under the age of 24 that are non-students, pay there own rent and can be fired for not achieving performance goals.  They would be a part of the marketing department of the college, which is what they are in the first place - a way to market the college outside of the immediate region.

Sorry - I’m off the soap box now.
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