Hey, what's up, everybody? It's Tom Curran, and this is Tom Curran's Patriots Talk podcast. Today, real special guest, it's Don Yee.

Better known as the agent for Tom Brady and Julian Edelman. He has a proposal, and it's about to get off the ground that is going to help young football players,

college age, find a path to the NFL that doesn't necessarily mean big-time college football.

We're going to talk about this plan, proposal, how he got to this point, and what it means right now is COVID-19 is wreaking havoc with the 2020 college football schedule.

I'm out of bit of Terry.

This time, world champion, and there ain't nothing you can do about fine.

Before I bring Dawn in, let's get the lay of the land.

I don't need to tell you that college sports are in jeopardy right now, especially big-time college football.

The Pac-12, Big Ten, all the Power Five conferences are debating

how or whether or not they're going to have a season. The athletes, as of Sunday night,

began to exercise some of the power that they have. And Don Yee is someone who is agitated

for players to recognize their power at the college level for a long time.

In January of 2016, on the eve of the national championship, he had a column an op-ed in the Washington Post that really just pointed out the inequities of the college sports game.

It's nothing new.

We all have understood it.

When I was at Emerson College in 1990, taking the class,

I wrote how college athletes should be paid at least a stipend.

Well, here we are 30 years later, and the same issues are very obvious.

But as the billions stack up for college programs, ADs, coaches, a strength coach at Alabama

will make $600,000. And players, especially in 2020, are student athletes, not players,

young men who have been in these programs and promised an education for a period of time and also the opportunity to prepare themselves to perhaps play in the national football league do this as a career are finding themselves dangling at the end of a string because the NCAA can't get its plan together and we all understand the dangers of COVID-19,

but to jerk around the individuals this way

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