To be clear — I am all about college athletes getting paid. In fact, whenever the topic comes up about how much these athletes (including professional athletes) are making I generally always respond with some form of “somebody is getting paid anyways so it might as well be the players.”
The money is there and it’s either the owner getting the money or the players. In college football, it’s the schools.
STILL. With that said, I was put off about the idea that some of these recruits are demanding money simply to visit a school.
Ohio State AD Gene Smith will say the quiet part out loud in today's NIL hearing on the Hill during his testimony.