Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush voiced strong concerns over the NCAA’s recent support of a player endorsement plan, saying that paying college athletes for their names and likenesses is “going to destroy some people.”
Bush, whose outstanding career at USC was marred by his eventual forfeiture of the 2005 Heisman Trophy, touched on the subject of paying college athletes during a recent interview with Playboy.
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The NCAA’s board of governors announced last month that it supports a proposal to allow college athletes to sign endorsement contracts and receive payment for other work, provided that the schools they attend are not involved in any of the payments.
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