NCAA to allow Schools to pay Players Directly
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The NCAA and its leagues are moving forward with a multibillion-dollar settlement agreement that will allow schools to directly pay players for the first time in the history of college sports. <a href="https://t.co/XaVgW9306B">https://t.co/XaVgW9306B</a></p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href="https://twitter.com/espn/status/1793794276586848630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Lulz...like some haven't already under the table

Glad to see players at my favorite school (Kansas) finally be compensated

College athletics has turned to shit already. These programs are raising the most spoiled, entitled pussies in our country.

Nebraska is so back

Ill admit Im more turned off of college athletics more than ever

Sucks for the viewer, great for the athletes.

Probably taking pay cuts now

I hope this opens the door for the NFL to start scheduling games every Saturday. NCAA football is essentially a pro sport now and the NFL should start stepping on their day.

Oh no, did they get Nick Saban's permission?

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Just think of the NCAA as a farm league and it's fine. I don't really pay attention to college sports but they should get paid because they have a lot of monetary value and I've always thought it's pretty un-American to forbid someone from making money off of their skillset when they can.

mutts have no money to pay their players. Spent it all on new wrasslin mats and softball fields

Chief a Roo just hopped into a grain silo

He seems like the kind of guy that will actively tithe to a school like WSU

His contributions buy three innings of shitty relief pitching

Yeah, that transfer rule where they can move around from school to school so easily pretty much killed it for me.

Damn that sucks and this is going to make it worse.

Yep, that seems to be the direction they heading. So long mid majors, if the transfer rule change didn't kill you, this should get it done.

If the schools are paying the players directly can they make them sign a non compete to receive their salary? You get to go back to sitting out a year if you want out essentially

Just curious how deep this rabbit hole will go

Well, tuition isnt very high for the everyday student so this shouldn't affect prices very much.

If parents were putting their young children under any athletic pressure starting in elementary school already, imagine how things will get now?

Well how else are they going to be ready for the pro leagues?

:shrug:

I suppose high school players will start needing agents...

I think it's funny that they call it college athletics when it's professional athletics.

I suppose that would be something that could be written into the contract…same as NFL.

Darryl Dawkins told me how about 10 of the biggest colleges gave him bags of money to go to their schools before he went straight to the NBA.

They took him to fast food drive thrus and delivered the cash through tje window in the Burger King and McDonald's bags.

On one hand it's great to see the players get paid but on another hand I think it's going to absolutely crush the non power conference programs.

Would have rather seen an evenly paid out salary across all programs.

It just makes “legal” what has been going on for forever.

I disagree. The players should be paid and paid according to their merits. College Football should have a draft and put an end to recruiting and the transfer portal. Parity in CFB would be amazing for the sport!

Yea, every player is essentially and always an unrestricted free agent.

It will go until CFB adopts a system similar to the NFL. The days of certain programs hoarding all of the best talent isn't as good for the industry as opposed to a shared balance of talent.

At one point a couple years ago Ohio State's WR room consisted of Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave, Jameson Wjlliams, Jaxon SMJ, Marvin Harrison Jr., and Emeka Egbuka. The first five listed were all 1st round picks and Egbuka is in his final year and a probable first or second round pick.

That's great for Ohio State but not for competitive balance.

Yale and Harvard are back, baby!

It'll be nice to finally be on equal footing with the other schools that have been cheating this whole time.

There won't be parity though. It will be no different than it was before this ruling. Honestly it's going to make college sports more like European soccer in the sense that the wealthy ones will thrive while the ones with less resources won't be able to compete.

Buh god thats Urban Meyers music!

NCAA End Game.