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[QUOTE="Cadillac, post: 135903, member: 399"]
[URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/lets-start-paying-college-athletes.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all']NYT Magazine - Let's Start Paying College Athletes[/URL]

This isn't an argument in favor of paying players. This is a crack at a plan to make this thing work, and work better.

The plan has five elements:
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[*]Offering contracts to players, essentially bidding for their services
[*]Salary cap for every team/minimum salary for every athlete
[*]Athletes who stay four years get additional two-year scholarship to focus solely on education
[*]Lifetime health insurance
[*]A players union to manage insurance, help set salary caps
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I would add a stipulation where up to a certain point, football or basketball could "borrow" some of the salary cap space from the other sport, as long as it evened out. If we choose to go after more five-star hoops players, and recruit mostly under-the-radar football players, well, that sucks for me as a football-first fan, but hey, that's what we're kind of doing now (we're #1!!!).
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