In a LONG overdue announcement Wednesday, the NCAA informed the world that they would no longer be exploiting the talent and labor of young student-at

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2021-07-02 18:30:08

In a LONG overdue announcement Wednesday, the NCAA informed the world that they would no longer be exploiting the talent and labor of young student-athletes around the country while profiting in the billions of dollars.

The good news is that they will no longer be prohibiting the athletes from making money off their name, image, and likeness (NIL)!

It’s about goddamn time. Until now student-athletes couldn’t so much as charge for hitting lessons or use their expertise to earn money working camps. In which they would be passing along that expertise to kids…

The NCAA has prohibited this type of activity for decades in the name of “amateurism.” A word I suspect means something else entirely to some of these college athletes (particularly the males).

The notion that a student-athlete earning money somehow hurts the integrity of amateurism (or “love of the game” or whatever disingenuous spin zone label the NCAA wants to slap on it) was always a bullshit argument, at best, but somehow (lobbying) it’s always managed to win out.

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