Reggie Bush Says College Athletes Could Make Millions Off NCAA Name, Image, Likeness Rule

Joe Burrow went from not being paid to not having an indoor facility in one year

Reggie Bush was the athlete of my childhood

Reggie Bush is the reason I woke up early on Saturdays and watched College Game Day! Also the reason I stayed up until 1am on the east coast to watch USC games!

Reggie Bush, Vince Young, Tim Tebow and Johnny Manziel were some of the most op players in an NCAA football video game

If college players can actually make money in college, I get the feeling that we'll see a lot more players stay for 4 or 5 years so they can get their degrees and make a run for the natty. If this works out, good players won't HAVE to go to the NFL as soon as possible just to support their families.

Remember when Reggie jumped from the 5 yd line to score a TD vs. Miami in 2009?
Chris Berman: Whooop!
Those were the days....

We better get a new NCAA game lol

And the NCAA should have no connection to the university system. It should be it’s own semiprofessional league

How is the new image and likeness rule gna affect transfer are the endorsements contingent on the school you go too?

USC donated some their old equipment to my HS back in 03 where I wore number 5 as he did his freshman year. I was no reggie Bush but he turned out to be my cfb hero. It's a shame the NCAA did to him.

Most or near most will loose all their money they make. The real problem is needing to teach young guys what to do with their money.

I have a hard time seeing many players making much off of a video game (the number of players having to be paid alone ensures that) but I could definitely see some sponsorship deals happening in a players local market.

Reggie Bush was the biggest college football player I can remember. Him and Tebow.

Reggie was incredible in USC the speed elusiveness Iris highlights was unreal something we never seen before he had 500 yards in 1 game think about that

*Reads the title, shouts to the sky* "AAAANNNDDDD MIIILLLIIIOOONNNSS"

Speaking on behalf of Who Dat Nation it was an honor to watch you play for our team and we wish you the best always. Love you Reggie so much

Bush said it himself, players in New York or Los Angeles could make millions, but that gives an obvious recruiting advantage to those schools in the big market areas

The issue is good players not going to mid colleges because they won’t make as much...

College players getting paid might incentivize them to stay in school instead of going pro at the earliest possible opportunity bc they don’t NEED to go pro for their family to survive.

He used Kim Kardashian the right way. Not marriage material at all

Letting the players make money. a lot of 3-4 round draft pick types bubble players can stay on the team and actually get the education. But if you are good but not great, right now you have to turn pro and it hurts the on field product. All to keep the NFLs and NBA free farm system

NCAA online was 🔥

"this is life changing money"

I may have wanted to buy a USC jersey. But if I did, it certainly would have been a Bush, Leinart, or Seau version.

90-95% of the kids aren't worth paying. The $50,000-$100,000 scholarship is all they are worth (from a business perspective). Most schools don't make that much off of football and it is only a handful of universities that rake in serious cash.

Clickbait like mad. NCAA still forbids group licensing which makes the video games impossible

Reggie Bush in NCAA Football 06 was a beast

Can they give deestroying and everyone else who got messed up their scholarship back

As much as Reggie was my childhood I still can never forgive “the bush push” and watching them beat friend of the show Brady Quinn’s Notre dame Irish.

Nobody can take away what you did for college and pro football.

Can we just get a dam NCAA 22 football game, basketball game etc

Wait, how much do pro players earn by their Madden likenesses?

Why don’t we just pay college athletes and not them go to school. The football program will not be related to the schools

I'm not opposed to college players receiving compensation for their image and likeness. However, I think the amount they receive while still in college should be capped at a certain amount. Put the rest in an account or some type of trust fund that they can acquire upon graduation.

WHO-DAT!!! ⚜⚜⚜

I’m all for college athletes making money, but I think if they’re getting paid then they need to cut full scholarships and give more to the students who are in debt for years and not getting paid by universities

beginning of the end of college football.

Running backs and QBs making millions, while the Offensive Linemen make nothing.
What if the OL boys say "stick it in your ear" and leave the team?
You will have smashed QBs and RBs with negative yardage.

The argument is that they just got a better life. Free school, food, and rent. Now. We must pay you for this privilege. And you think this gives you power over me.

They give you an education...well at least they're supposed to, so you get so that the school can get profit and continue to educate future generations, but as I can see educators have failed to educate you and you have failed to educate yourself....as has most of this country which is evident right now

It would sure help stop people like him from taking money, houses and cars from agents and boosters.

This likeness rule is going to kill colleges that aren't in large markets or have rich connections. Go to Oregon and have Nike use your likeness for $200,000 or go to Oregon State where you get to promote a burger joint for $200. You could sit on the bench and get paid more than a starter at another school. You think Alabama doesn't have a bankroll of large "sponsors" ready to outbid for players? I'll pay you $100,000 endorsement for my car lot as a talented freshman for two years, just to make sure you don't go to Auburn. Player wants more $$$ sophomore year, threatens to leave. $300,000? You got it. Then the fan anger builds as 19 and 20 year old kids make more than 40 year old blue collar worker going to the game.

Ok pay them but no free school, meals, housing, anything. Athlete's now pay for everything like regular students. No more taking finger painting, water color painting, bowling, signing. You take real classes and if you don't pass you are off the team.

Can’t fathom all the money he made the for the NCAA

We will never have another NCAA Football game. I’m stuck playing 14 for the rest of my life

you do realize that the students who spend their lives in debt are the ones footing the bill, right? when will pro athletes finally feel like they get enough? or is it always "give me more"?

Do you want thousand dollar ticket prices? Because this is how you get thousand dollar ticket prices.

Wdym? Zion been getting paid millions 😂

You went to one other nation championships, LSU won the other. There is only one crystal football that year and it's at LSU

So only mens colllege football and basketball players would be making money. As if there isn't enough problems with Title IX

Make players pay for college, let them make money off their image and spread the scholarships to other fields like science and medicine.

The band will want millions next.

College athletes think they're worth so much more than they actually are. Just quit if you don't like the arrangement of it and go train for the pros or the Olympics. Nobody is forcing anyone to play college sports.
Athlete receives: tuition, housing, food, stipend check, facilities, tutoring, coaching, platform to showcase skills, gear, top of the food chain on campus both socially and administratively, brand building, baked in fanbase
School receives: talent, time, chance to win, press
Now yes, they don't get time to pursue the education they want, and they shouldn't have to put so much time into their sport. And they can't get jobs because of the time constraints too, so it is a little ridiculous at some of the rules (like you can't buy a kid dinner? Cmon) but I'm sick of this "wahhh we can't get paid wahhh they make millions off us" like yeah if you take the collective of 10,000 players in FBS there is some money being exchanged. But at 25K per full scholly that's $250 mil just to players. For every prime time STAR there's 40-50 guys who don't move the revenue needle at all.

Anytime I hear "California" anymore I cringe. Such a bummer on what it's turned out to be.

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