Posted on 12/08/2021 7:54:53 PM PST by Enterprise
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Every Texas Longhorns offensive lineman on scholarship will get $50,000 annually for use of their name, image and likeness to support charitable causes, a new nonprofit entity announced Monday.
Horns with Heart said “The Pancake Factory” would start in August 2022. The organization said it hopes to expand the program to other football position groups and Longhorns athletes in the future. The name comes from the “pancake” blocks linemen sometimes do during play.
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Why not? Especially since Brian Kelly gets paid 10 million dollars to coach at LSU.
$100,000 if they take a knee.
I’ll bet the Defense loves this.
Sweet!
What a good non profit.
Not.
That’s more than the SMU players used to get paid.
So a college alumni organization can now start up a nonprofit and pay that great high school quarterback to come to their college? Seems like colleges used to have their programs destroyed if they got caught doing that. I’m not sure the NCAA thought this out.
I think that is only for center field.
Pretty offensive
Maybe half what Alabama players get... But it is a start...
“That’s more than the SMU players used to get paid.”
Wasn’t Alabama the cash king for a good while? I wonder about Oklahoma and Nebraska back in the day.
I know the fellas at Clemson used to get nice “pocket change.”
I don’t have all the articles for now, but to the best of my knowledge, this is happening because it has already been decided upon the by the USSC. It ruled that athletes can bargain for pay. Part of the reasoning was that the schools make billions of dollars off the teams and the images of the athletes. I believe that the NCAA did not support this ruling. The bidding war has begun!
Only songwriter to be inducted into the BB Hall of Fame.
That’s a lot of dough. Wonder what the good O lines are going to want when they see this.
Not NCAA decision court decide
Well there’s a signing bonus.
This is just the start. And it’s just football. Wait for the sparks to fly next year with basketball!
...and so it begins.
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