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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 4818634, member: 1559"] I apologize. I shouldn't have used Joly as an example as it obscured the point I was trying to make. The vast majority of college athletes, including football players, will not play their sport professionally. What is more important over the long run, a modest NIL payment or a college degree? Payments for college athletes is not new (weren't legal before) and there are many tales of athletes that didn't take advantage of their opportunities going to school. And, I dismiss your claim that you need to go to a P4 to get noticed by the NFL. Last year, Old Dominion had as many players drafted as Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Miami, Utah, Wisconsin, and more than Arkansas, Florida St., Nebraska, Miss. St., West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Baylor, Arizona St., Missouri,... [/QUOTE]