re: Florida Rep Proposes bill to pay college athletes

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Title IV applies only to the universities. Private business can pay whoever they want for their likeness. I don’t know why title IV keeps making an appearance in the discussion with these bills.

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It's quite simple. It doesn't matter what private business want to do, if the NCAA says the players can't accept money from the private business. And if the NCAA decides to let the private business pay the players, then the women will want equal pay. They will cry "sexism" when the men inevitably make a gazillion times more off their likeness than the women do. That's where Title IV comes in.

You want to avoid that? Get rid of Title IV. I'll get right behind anyone who wants to eliminate that sham.

There are other problems, though. If players start receiving any kind of payments other than a stipend, it's no longer amateur athletics. It's completely naive not to realize that this opens the door for far more than just making money off of their likeness. And if that happens, the college system is dead, and gone will be the days of 100 plus players on a football roster, with under the radar kids getting far fewer opportunities.