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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2743905, member: 405"]
Did you see this article on SB Nation, on the winners and losers among the FBI Trial verdict.  Toward the end, there was a whole discussion by Boeheim of whether to pay players at the end of the article that was fascinating!  Who knew he was so liberal toward the players' rights?

[URL='https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2018/10/24/18020786/jim-boeheim-lebron-james-paying-college-players-darius-bazley-syracuse-twitter']Jim Boeheim really doesn’t want college basketball players to get paid. LeBron James is laughing at him.[/URL]

Check this out (only partial quote):

”I think we should do as much as we can for the players under the system. We have improved it. We could get the parents to games. I think we could do that more easily. Anything we can do extending the players’ educations, make sure it’s paid for.

We keep our players up there at Christmas -- let’s send them home. Let’s pay for them to go home a couple times. Why not? Why can’t we do that? Why shouldn’t we do that? I think they do that for other scholarship people. I think they can get transportation. Why don’t we talk about that?

“And the players’ images, fine. There’s a lot of pitfalls for that, but go ahead. If Tyus Battle can do a commercial in town and make money, I’m 100 percent for that. It’s not hurting anything. Let’s do that. And if there’s something about that they want to put in a trust, that’s fine, too.”
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