The future of NIL and paying college football players (02/23)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew talks NIL, paying players and the future of college football. First, analyzing what went wrong with College Football Playoff expansion efforts (1:00) and the latest from Arizona State with its star quarterback entering the transfer portal and an NCAA investigation ongoing (17:30). Then it’s on to the future of player compensation in college football (29:25), with a specific look at the value of the scholarship (40:00), the cost of a recruiting class in the current NIL era (53:00) and whether the NCAA will roll back any of the NIL rules after its review this spring.
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| 1:17.4 | We are just |
| 1:18.8 | Flexing our multi-platform excellence all through the offseason and on into the 2022 season |
| 1:26.3 | That's that's kind of what we're about we're about growth or about reaching people in more places |
| 1:30.0 | We are excited that you are joining us for today's show one of the topics that we kick around a lot in in small pieces is |
| 1:38.0 | You know player compensation. Oh, hey, I think that with this development and this development players will be paid one day |
| 1:44.4 | Well, let's dig into it. We're gonna do that and we're gonna see you know |
| 1:48.3 | How we got here what's next programs that could benefit all of that coming up in just a little bit |
| 1:54.0 | But there is one story that we just we're so good, you know |
| 1:59.4 | Guys, we're just a really really good at being able to predict exactly what's gonna happen and talking about it before the news actually comes down |
| 2:06.9 | Because in in one of last week shows |
| 2:09.6 | We discussed the future of the college football playoff |
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