Seattle Adult Entertainment: Privatize college football? Let’s treat sport for what it is – professional
… The agents that do this, and I hate to say this, but how are they any better than a pimp?” Alabama’s Nick Saban so memorably put it last month. “I have no respect for people who do that to young people. None.” And Florida’s Urban Meyer said that the problem is “epidemic right now” and that agents and their associates should be “severely punished.”
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• Coaches could focus strictly on coaching. They would be employees of the corporation, not the university. Lane Kiffin wouldn’t have to worry about monitoring every player’s vehicle of choice or whether a booster is buying meals for his quarterback. And Nick Saban wouldn’t have to waste his time discussing “pimps.” In this system, players could take money from agents or marketers because their amateurism wouldn’t be at stake.
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