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alp227

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7. The problem is that if they're paid as employees the universities will be on the hook for much more.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 28, 2014, 03:27 PM

Jan 2014

Like worker's comp, health care benefits, etc. And then you have the "minor" college sports like any women's sport or cross country. How will they be paid? While the current NCAA system is worth of criticism, let's not create a new set of unfunded mandates.

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