Slate: Time to pay the college athletes

From PFT:

Whatever transpires, the NFL Players Association supports the effort, via resolution passed by its Board of Player Representatives: “Resolved, that the NFLPA pledges its support to the National Collegiate Players Association (NCPA) and its pursuit of basic rights and protections for future NFLPA members.”

Don't know what "supports the effort" means. For now I think the biggest issue facing college players is not whether they will eventually get paid but whether, in the face of more than a hundred early entries in this draft, the NFL does its minor league system a solid and increases the minimum wait to four years after high school.

 

The league would have to get the union to agree to that, and, while it's possible, it's no guarantee.

As far as the Northwestern players go, good for them.

 

We'd all be better off if colleges stopped doing everything in their power to bring to school kids who have no business being there.

 

We'd all be better off if colleges went back to the Ivy League and D-III model, with just bigger stadiums and the scholarships. Instead, it's grown into a billion-dollar monster.