SEC meeting: Spurrier makes proposal for paying players

[2Stater]

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Spurrier, Alabama's Nick Saban, Florida's Will Muschamp, LSU's Les Miles, Mississippi's Houston Nutt, Mississippi State's Dan Mullen and Tennessee's Derek Dooley signed the proposal.

SEC Commissioner Mike Slive called it a "generous gesture."

"A bunch of us coaches felt so strongly about it that we would be willing to pay it -- 70 guys, 300 bucks a game," Spurrier said. "That's only $21,000 a game. I doubt it will get passed, but as coaches in the SEC, we make all the money -- as do universities, television -- and we need to get more to our players.

"We would like to make that happen. Probably won't, but we'd love to do it."

The total cost would be less than $300,000 for a coach whose team plays 14 games. But Spurrier acknowledged that not every coach in the country would be able to do the same, and there certainly would be potential Title IX implications and other hurdles.

Interesting concept. I think a lot more noise about this will need to be made to gain any steam.

[Jamos]

If you pay football players $300 a game, the atheletes in the other sports will demand the same payment per the NCAA guidelines.

[ricky023]

If you pay football players $300 a game, the atheletes in the other sports will demand the same payment per the NCAA guidelines.

 , had to give ya one on this. I think you are dead on and what about other sports, Golf, Softball, Baseball, and gymnastics. You can't show preference to one sport and not make restituion to the others that is just not fair at all. RTR!

[Crimson Phoenix]

I think there is nothing far out about this proposal from Spurrier.  College football has become big business....

[pmull]

IMO it will never happen as long as SEC football is a member of the NCAA.

Paying player's $300 per game is not an issue for BCS Conference schools. But UAB, Troy and other schools like them can not afford this additional cost. You also get into the Title 9 issues of gender equality.

CSS talks about paying 70 players. There are 85 on scholorship plus walk ons. Who decides who gets paid?

[Crimson Phoenix]

Cecil's (this morning's) article about it.
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"There is one thing the idea most definitely is not, however: airworthy. It won't fly. It wouldn't make it past the NCAA, or the IRS, or the DOE (administrators of Title IX) or a half-dozen other acronym-bearing agencies that regulate such things. The simple idea would have complex ramifications that could never be resolved. And even Spurrier knows it."

"There actually are proposals out there to facilitate extra financial aid for athletes. The most-discussed idea at the moment is the full-cost or cost-of-living scholarship, a proposal that the Big 10 is pushing and the SEC is looking at in an intrigued way."

[SUPERCOACH]

Sorry guys, I accidentally moved this thread to a private admin area for a couple of days.  Talk about hijacking a thread...

Thanks to ssmith for pointing this out.

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