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Since when did Harris or Mendozie become Outside LBs by the way? I thought they were both essentially edge rushing DEs but ok, outside linebacker it is

The Gabe Harris coming back affect. See ya later.

Yes, they move them, sometimes to the LOS - but standing or hand in dirt (edge). And sometimes back with the rest of the LB’s. Depends on what defense they are in & situation. The OLB has to be versatile and able to play both positions, a hybrid.

Defense usually run out of a 3-3-5 or 4-2-5 base.

Great news! We needed some good news.

Thank You Peyton for being a DGD that you certainly are !!

Once athletes are classified as employees the IRS will then deem all currently deductible contributions to the Hartman and Magill Society "scholarship" funds as "pay for play" and thus no longer deductible. Suspect that donations will drop significantly when that happens. The IRS is already "snooping around" and has already issued opinion letters on the pay for play subject in response to Ohio States use of non-profits for "laundering" of their collective money.

If they are employees, then colleges will be required to collect and match the "employees" FICA and Social Security contributions, collect and remit State Unemployment Insurance premiums, and will be required to provide Workers Compensation insurance for their potential "work related" injury. I spent over 40 years in the Property and Casualty Industry, and I don't believe that many insurance companies will be lining up to insure football players for work related injury. Some insurance carriers might be willing to provide the insurance if the university adheres to a strict Personal Protective Equipment policy and wraps all players head to toe in bubble wrap before each practice and game, and if the university is willing to self-insure part of the risks by taking a six figure deductible, or more, for every accident.

I have heard some of the sports show "taking heads" discussing this idea of collective bargaining, and setting up pay ranges for players based on tenure, position, etc., but they leave out that you are now discussing employees, and they never discuss the total employer's costs of employing 108 new people who happen to perform some pretty hazardous work. The 108 is what I think the new roster limitation is, and that doesn't include the hundreds of athletes in all of the other sports.

Just don't see how schools could absorb all the additional costs. Who is going to pay for it??? I am not donating more for that model, and I suspect a lot of other donors feel the same way.

I don't have an answer to the mess university presidents, athletic directors, Regents, and the NCAA have created, by selling their souls to the devil - ESPN, NBC, FOX, etc. - for money, but making "student athletes" employees to solve the problem is ludicrous.