Ex-NFL player speaks out against college athlete revenue sharing with landmark Supreme Court ruling pending

The property of jock compensation successful assemblage sports could get a batch much analyzable with a pending Supreme Court decision. 

A colony successful the lawsuit of House v. NCAA would let each Division I schools to stock gross straight with pupil athletes if it receives last support this month.

The existent strategy of NIL compensation, successful effect since summertime 2021, has faced its stock of scrutiny. But universities paying athletes straight would each but erase the "amateurism" that historically defined American assemblage sports. 

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Former NFL and assemblage shot subordinate Jack Brewer is heavy opposed to the concept. 

"We request to get backmost to student-athletes," Brewer told Fox News Digital. 

"If a idiosyncratic wants the state to marque arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic they privation and tin leverage the athletics to bash that, they should perfectly beryllium capable to — and they can, successful our nonrecreational leagues. But there's nary spot for an unlimited magnitude of wealth to beryllium paid to radical successful assemblage sports. They should beryllium student-athletes, which is what they signed up to be."

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Brewer argued that gross sharing would worsen a occupation created by NIL since its 2021 legalization — declining graduation rates.

"You’ll proceed to spot students who are nary longer focused connected schoolhouse due to the fact that their inducement for going to assemblage is nary longer to get an education, but to marque money," Brewer said. "It’s not close for universities to exploit this loophole, recruiting student-athletes who nary longer person to absorption connected being students."

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