Steve Spurrier proposed today that college football players ought to be paid a stipend out of the coaches' salaries. He suggested $300 a game, to perhaps 70 players, $21,000 a game from the coach. Seven SEC coaches, including LSU's Les Miles, signed his proposal.
Spurrier appears to have intended it as a conversation starter, and as such, it's a good one. The President of the NCAA, Mark Emmert, had a strongly negative reaction, calling the idea "the death of intercollegiate athletics as we know it."
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