AP National Writer It is just about time to say goodbye, once and for all, to the amateur athlete in college sports. The final vestiges of that notion are expected to officially sputter out in 2025. The $2.8 billion antitrust settlement agreed to by the NCAA lays the foundation for players to receive money directly from their schools. As soon as April and certainly by next summer, what was once considered anathema to the entire concept of colleg…

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When 2025 arrives, so will the end of the amateur athlete in college sports

It is just about time to say goodbye, once and for all, to the amateur athlete in college sports

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AP National Writer When the page turns on 2024, it will be time to say goodbye, once and for all, to the amateur athlete in college sports. In theory, the concept held on stubbornly via the quaint and now all-but-dead notion that student-athletes played only for pride, a scholarship and some meal money. In practice, the amateurs have been disappearing for years, washed away by the steady millions, now billions, that have flowed into college athl…

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When the page turns on 2024, it will be time to say goodbye, once and for all, to the amateur athlete in college sports. In theory, the concept held on stubbornly via the quaint and now all-but-dead notion that student-athletes played only for pride, a scholarship and some meal money. In practice, the amateurs have been disappearing for years, washed away by the steady millions, now billions, that have flowed into college athletics, mostly throu…

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This will mark the final step of a journey that has felt inevitable since 2021 when the Supreme Court laid the foundation for paying college players in exchange for promotions.

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By EDDIE PELLS When the page turns on 2024, it will be time to say goodbye, once and for all, to the amateur athlete in college sports. In theory, the concept held on stubbornly via the quaint and now all-but-dead notion that student-athletes played only for pride, a scholarship and some meal money. In practice, the amateurs have been disappearing for years, washed away by the steady millions, now billions, that have flowed into college athletics

When 2025 arrives, so will the end of the amateur athlete in college sports

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