re: Senate passes College Sports Protection Act

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offer athletes assistance to complete their degrees for up to 10 years after their eligibility expires.

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How were they eligible to play if after 5 years of college they haven't completed a degree?

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provide five years of post-eligibility health care benefits

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This is an employment benefit

Sad how many supposed “Christians” worship jatarvis crimest instead of Jesus Christ

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Players should be up in arms about this. It’s a very anti-player bill.

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You got a lot of downvotes, but you're not wrong. The government isn't stepping in to place compensation caps on other forms of entertainment, and that's essentially what college football has become: a major entertainment business.

The players didn't create this system. The schools, conferences, and television networks did. Just look at the money involved. Many athletic departments now operate with budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and 13 of the 25 largest stadiums in the world are dedicated to college football in the United States alone.

The SEC by itself generates roughly $2 billion annually from football. With that much money flowing through the sport, it's hard to argue that the athletes should be the only participants whose earnings are restricted.

If administrators succeed in limiting player compensation, do we really think fans will see lower ticket prices or reduced costs? More likely, the schools and conferences will simply retain a larger share of the revenue. If anyone should be frustrated with that outcome, it's the players.

And if we're going to argue for limits on what athletes can earn, then let's at least be consistent. We should also be talking about limits on what schools can charge for tickets. Taking it a step further, we should discuss limits on the cost of higher education itself. The rising cost of education affects millions of students and families and is a far bigger issue than what a relatively small number of student-athletes are paid. Yet that's the conversation few people seem willing to have because it's the true third rail of the debate.

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Greed ruins everything.

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But but... not paying the players was RAYCISS and they wuz like slaves making money for the skoolz but aint' get nuthin. Well, except for a free college education, the best players were always getting some money under the table where they weren't struggling in the least, and they get a stepping stone to the NFL to go on to make millions of dollars. But that wasn't enough. They need that cash, dem chains, dem fresh whips and cribs now, yo!

College football is over. It's just another pro league now.

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The athletes are there to go to school and get an education.

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bullshite. It's a professional football tryout league.

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Amazing how everyone is allowed to be greedy except for the players.

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Somewhere amateur athletics jumped the shark and became minor league sports. It's well beyond the point of putting the Genie back in the bottle. The Courts, the NCAA, Major Conferences, greedy Athletes and Agents have ruined College Athletics forever. It's done , stick a fork in it

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The athletes are there to go to school and get an education.

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Interesting how you only described athletes and their representatives as greedy.

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There are no innocents in this mess, but Athletes and Agents swap shopping their services to the highest bidder goes beyond any tenet of " Amateurism " into realms of abject greed, and beyond socioeconomic classes and a poor man trying to make a buck.

Please explain the basis for this claim. I’m curious.