Former NFL star Jj Watt On Monday, he called on NCAA on Monday to call for collegial athletes as students.
Watt, in the post on X, pointed to the money that the organization earns, the appearance of names, pictures and similarities (NIL), portal portals and passenger teams.
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The defensive end of Arizona Cardinals JJ Watt, #99, responds after the loss of Patriots at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, December 12, 2022. (Patrick Breen / The Republic / USA Today Network)
“At some point NCAA needs To throw out the ‘first student, Atlete Second’ Charade, ‘the former Wisconsin Badgers star wrote.’ Billions of dollars, Nil, transfer portal (free agency), traveling in the middle of the Games …
“Education is not the main focus. Admit it and call it what it is. Business. Take it as such.”
When one X user noticed that Watt’s point only refers to the best players in the best programs, Watt agreed.
“That’s just my point,” Watt added. “We have children who do not make money and will never go professionally, but they travel all over the country in the middle of the week for” conference games, “they transmit schools, sacrificing sports studies, etc. None of this is what works best for a student.”
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Defense midfielder Arizona Cardinals JJ Watt, #99, goes out to the field before the game against the Patriots at the Stadium Farm stadium in Glendale, Arizona, December 12, 2022. (Patrick Breen / The Republic / USA Today Network)
Many coaches at the college at NCAAs have echoed Watt’s point.
Former Alabama Crimson Tide Football coach Nick Saban, in February 2024 in February 2024, threw out Nil College Sports treatment.
“What we have now is not college football-not college football as we know it. You hear that someone uses the word” student-athlete “. That does not exist,” Saban said in an interview with ESPN.
He added that collectives at college sports had “nothing to do with name, image and similarity”.
Analyst ESPN Nick Saban before the game between Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Penn State Nittany Lions in Orange Bowl at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami January 2025. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images)
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“Just as the NFL player has a contract or a coach has a contract, something in place, so you don’t have all these census raids and a mass movement,” he said. “I wonder what fans will say when they do not know the team year after year, because there is no team development, just making new players every year.”
Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
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