Just curious...what sorts of changes could you foresee? A cash stipend, maybe?Some would describe college football that way too. We have to be careful about this.
Truthfully, I don't think this takes off, but it may make the NCAA make changes.
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I'd like to see that, too. But say it's $500 a month for a nine-month school year. That works out to a little under $400k a year for an 85-scholarship football program.
It also raises the question of how to handle stipends for football vs. other revenue sports vs. Olympic sports that generate little or no revenue.
For a school that has an 85-scholarship football program and is compliant with Title IX, it would push $1 million a year.
Not a huge problem for us, but almost nobody outside the Power 5 could afford it, and a lot of the lower-tier Power 5 would choke.
The current restriction to being three years out of high school is an NFL rule, specifically negotiated in the labor agreement with the NFLPA. Point being, the NCAA has no control over it. So I don't think it'll affect eligibility to go pro.
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