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Man, I hate to break this to you garbageplate by jt
Bama and other schools were already circumventing scholarship limits with certain preferred walk ons. Now, at this rate? No. But it was already going on.
Does this only seek to widen the gulf between the haves and the have nots? Of course. Is this a problem that could have been easily solved years ago, if the University presidents and athletic directors were not so selfish and greedy? Yes. Is this going to probably lead to a split? Yeah, probably.
At the end of the day, however, not allowing a young man to profit off of his own fame isn't legal. It looks even worse when everyone else is getting rich and the athlete has to break the rules to have some money.