Is Shemar holding out?

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(Yesterday, 04:17 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Thanks for this TLL. I honestly didn't know this as I never went to college. That is BS athletes not being able to get a job.

Not cool the folks making money off of the athletes as well. You changed my mind on this except for the point TJ528 was making about 
seeing more athletes having character issues and not needing the money in the future though.

Yeah, before NIL they weren't even able to get a summer job flipping burgers. They couldn't accept any gifts from anyone like a free tattoo (Terrell Pryor got a 5 game suspension for that) or a free beer or a taco on the house or something. All things that every other student could accept if offered.

That's why the Supreme Court ruled they way they did because in reality athletes were being restricted harsher than every other student and NIL is just a product of them now having to treat all students equally.

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I don't see how talented folks not needing the money is a bad thing.

A small fraction of football players are ever going to make it in the NFL. Now some more people who grew up with no money and, despite being talented, have no real shot at the NFL will have a chance to make some life changing money. Or some guys who could have made it to the NFL but their bodies absolutely destroyed by 4 years of NCAA football or one devastating injury to where they can't keep playing now won't be leaving penniless.

Probably will be some character issues, but there's always been. That's not enough of a reason to pay coaches millions of dollars, for colleges to make tens of millions of dollars in profit each, and all the broadcasting and sponsor companies to make millions and/or billions of dollars while the athletes who actually create the product get at best a piece of overprice paper.