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For years South Carolina head football coach, Steve Spurrier, has been a huge advocate of paying student-athletes to play big time college sports. The topic has definitely been met with a variety of mixed opinions, but since the decision to move from the BCS to a playoff system the conversation seems to be picking up steam.
Joker Phillips made a [URL=”http://vaughtsviews.com/?p=21946″]statement[/URL] about paying students to play sports:
“You don’t want to know what I think. I’ve had kids come up with a new tattoo on their arm and ask them what it cost and he’s told me $250 and it wasn’t finished yet. I would like to put money aside for retirement for them. But I am not one that wants to give $2,000 more and now a player will have four body tattoos and two bulldogs. I would love to see the money put aside for retirement or something.”
