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What are the recent changes in college athlete compensation?
With playoffs kicking off Friday, it's a bigger than usual week for college football, but it's also been a huge year. College athletes have been getting paid. Arch Manning, 3.1 mil, I believe.
There's an athlete, currently a high school prospect, unnamed, apparently getting an $8 million NIL deal.
So I got to talk about Cam Ward, man.
About a $2 million deal with Adidas. The biggest deal of the year was a whopping $10 million reportedly paid out to quarterback Bryce Underwood to change his commitment from LSU to Michigan. But what's kind of weird about these deals is that the schools aren't necessarily the ones paying out.
Bryce's millions apparently came at least partly from the tech billionaire Larry Ellison, all because his fifth wife went to the University of Michigan We're going to figure out what's going on in college sports on Today Explained.
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