View Full Version : ESPN & Fox's college football pregame shows ignored the biggest story in sports


TMC
10-07-2019, 07:51 PM
...last week

https://theathletic.com/1272046/2019/10/07/bubble-screen-saturday-silence-on-fair-pay-to-play-act-raises-a-lot-of-questions/

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the “Fair Pay To Play Act" (https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/09/30/california-governor-signs-fair-pay-play-act-lebron-james) last Monday, allowing the state's college athletes to strike endorsement deals and hire agents. It may turn out to be the most revolutionary game-changing legislation in college athletics since Title IX was passed in 1972, yet it went unmentioned during ESPN's College Gameday's three-hour broadcast and on Fox's Big Noon Kickoff on Saturday morning. The legislation was signed because college athletics has become a billion-dollar business with athletics unable to profit. Yet as John Walters points out, the stars of the two pregame shows make a lot from endorsements from being connected to college football.