NFL on college football
2019-03-21 22:34:39.705264+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
RT Robert Klemko @RobertKlemko
Was talking to an NFL exec for another story and he went off on this tremendous rant on college football and amateurism that I have to share.
"This whole thing stinks..."
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"This whole thing stinks. There's so much money at the college level, and if the good guys aren't gonna pay you , then the bad guys are. The college coaches are always on us about their kids leaving early, and I tell them, until you start paying them, they're leaving. You have these huge TV contracts and you can pay 10 coaches on the staff $1 million but you can't pay the players? It doesn't make sense. It's garbage. And everybody knows it's garbage. The NCAA, they're all crooks. It's extortion of these players, because they're all beat up. In April I see 360 physicals and listen to all the injuries and it's just brutal. They're 22-years-old and we can't draft him, or we knock 'em down the board and the doctor says we might be able to get one contract out of him. They're never more marketable than the our years there in college. Their stadiums are bigger than ours and everyone paid $100 bucks to get in and $50 to park and the conference has a TV contract and there's national TV and the players don't get a dime? How in the world is this legal? If you or I were real talented at singing or playing a guitar or rap, we could just go and make a bunch of money. It's not like we have to go to some music school and let them reap millions off of us first. We can go off on our own. These kids don't have that option. You throw in the fact that the average NFL career is three years, and it's just a travesty."