Are College Athletes About to Get Paid?

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🗓️ 18 September 2019

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A star college athlete can help rake in millions for the schools they attend but never see a cent for themselves because of existing NCAA rules. California lawmakers just passed a bill that would allow collegiate athletes to profit off of their name, likeness and image in a step to rectify the discrepancy. The Fair Pay for Play Act is just a piece of the larger conversation about paying college athletes. Is the NCAA being pulled closer to paying its athletes? Guest: Bomani Jones, Co-Host of ESPN’s High Noon and host of The Right Time with Bomani Jones Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's April 7th, 2014, Arlington, Texas.
0:09.0	Mark Madness is just about to end.
0:15.5	The 2014 National Championship game, Yukon wins the championship, which by the way none
0:26.2	of us expected to happen.
0:27.2	Like it was a pretty big surprise at that team, managed to win the National Championship.
0:31.4	ESPN's Bomanie Jones can still remember the Cinderella victory Yukon pulled off that
0:36.9	year.
0:37.9	They were as unexpected a National Champion as I can think of off the top of my head.
0:42.4	But the reason Bomanie still thinks about this game, it isn't because of anything that
0:46.6	happened on the court that night.
0:49.0	Instead, it's because of what happened afterwards.
0:52.5	Honestly, I want to get everybody's attention right quick.
0:59.2	That's when an announcer put a microphone in front of a player named Shabbaz Napier.
1:03.2	And you can tell that Napier had something that he had planned to say and he said that
1:07.7	we are the hungry Huskies.
1:11.0	But the hunger was not simply in their desire to win a championship.
1:17.0	He meant that we are literally hungry.
1:19.0	And he talked about the nights of those guys go where they, you know, hungry at night
1:22.6	and don't have anything to eat.
1:28.2	Hungry had become this way Napier talked about himself.
1:32.5	A few days earlier, he had been asked whether players should organize, demand that colleges
1:37.3	pay for their athletic work.
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