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Tom Edrington

Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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    baxter cepeda

    While it’s a noble stand for the athletes by the ncaa, This story highlights how reliant the college system is in college football players risking mind and body to pay their bills.

    Now college footballers may be put at even higher risk to foot the bills, which yes, the ncaa uses to support many American amateur athletes; but it also uses that money to control athletes, including football players themselves. Control by not paying or allowing anyone else to pay athletes for likeness.

    What would happen if the ncaa need to start paying athletes?

    What will happen as pro minor leagues in both basketball (gLeague) and football (XFL, albeit not in business now) increasingly threatening the ncaa model?

    How can the ncaa become less reliant on college football and basketball revenue?

    Hopefully rich alumni step up by supporting all sports more.

    At some point the USOC may need to support the ncaa, especially if college football players cannot.

    And imo We all need to support all college sports more.
    Attend more events. Watch more. Talk about these athletes more. There’s a lot more to the ncaa and amateur sports than just football and men’s basketball.

    Women’s basketball is somewhat on the rise at both college and pro levels thanks to support from the nba, Kobe and Giana, and increasing coverage.

    No doubt Golf Channels coverage is Increasing viewership for college golf. Hopefully this coverage brings more fans to the course, because fans make the tv coverage better. Hopefully all this raises revenues for college golf and makes the sport less reliant on football.

    One problem for many ncaa sports is that while The organization and its tv partners present football and basketball in first class fashion, most other sports are still covered in archaic, amateurish fashion, if at all. Not digestible.

    Every ncaa sport potentially has masses of passionate fans, but if the live presentation and/or coverage stink, fans end up watching the same old college football games, keeping everyone dependent on them.

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      Tom Edrington

      My quick question to all those who want to play athletes would be this: How much does it cost to attend college, to eat and board? Average $40,000 to $50,000? I would say that universities are basically using the old barter system where athletes get scholarships with a value of $120,000 to $200,000 over a four-year period. It would be less expensive to “pay them” as you propose, a salary of $25,000 a year and let them foot the bill for their schooling….

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