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The whole issue was created by ESPN who is now the industry leader in destroying sports by their policy of interjecting every social issue they can onto sports. If allowed to continue this will hurt the athletes immensely. In appeal the schools will force the exact qualification for employee and then modify how they do things to avoid that threshold but if they don't the effect on other sports will be horrific. The talking heads seem to not consider that of all the college athletes nationwide there are less than 20 players that really have any national appeal that could have any potential impact to revenue that the school wouldn't get without them. That leaves out about 419,980 college athletes left unconsidered. Most go to small college and compete in sports that don't make a dime. What is next. Highschoolers thinking they deserve a cut of the Friday football concessions. Perhaps the colleges should pay the football players. Then make them pay for their own tuition, board, meals, medical, a % of the cost the school incurs to provide the national exposure they get now for free, access to the gym facilties and trainers, % of coaches who provide their instruction. In the end the football players may end up taking loans to cover it