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They don’t need a side job to earn a little spending money. They are rolling in cash with the NIL coffers being filled to the brim and overflowing. They get all the Powerade they want, anytime they want, and live as comfortably as anybody in Clarke County.

If you reflect on the past, has there ever been a greater circumstance to be able to play a sport and get a free education in return? That was the way it was originally, but greed and selfishness have gotten in the way.

Now we have entered the age of professionalism. The National Football Foundation gives an award through its local chapters throughout the country each year: Contribution to Amateur Football.

There has been a need to change the name of the award which now is called Contribution to College Football Award.

There is no such thing as amateur football anymore. Are we going to see players at the high school level getting money to play? Then will the grade school level be next? Where will it stop?

Playing for the love of alma mater? Forget that! That is as unlikely as a helmet without a faceguard.