Dallas Cowboys Star Micah Parsons blasted the State of College Football in the middle of control of Tennessee Volunteers Quarterback Nico Iamaleeava Friday.
Iamaleeava was reportedly a teamout in practice this week as he tried to renegotiate his name, image and equality from $ 2.4 million to $ 4 million a year. He had 2,616 passing yards and 19 touchdown passes when Vols finished 10-3 during the 2024 season.
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December 29, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dallas Cowboys Linebacker Micah Parsons (11) against Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. (Eric HartLine-Misted Pictures)
When the discourse entered social media, the former Penn State star was unhappy with what college football has become.
“College football a joke now! You mind well just make college for a semi -pro league! Hold actually players in charge of the contracts they sign!” He wrote on X.
Then he answered another person at X who claimed that college football had always been a semi-pro league and that the players were paid just illegally.
“Nah College was never about money! College is bout building character!” Parsons wrote back. “I am the man I am today because of the fraternity and the amazing coaches I have had in my time in Penn State!
Tennessee Quarterback Nico Iamaleeava (8) goes off the field after the victory over Kentucky after a NCAA College -Football match on Saturday, November 2, 2024 in Knoxville, Tenn. (Saul Young / News Sentinel / USA Today Network via Imag images)
“We failed children now because life is not easy and we allow them to quit!”
Iamaleeava is just the tip of the iceberg of what could happen in college athletics sooner than later.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, BIG 12 -Commissioner Brett Yormark and Big Ten -Commissioner Tony Petitti were at Capitol Hill last week to lobby the congress to get help to legislate zero in college atletics.
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Yormark told Bret Baier about “Special Report” Thursday that “We need help from Congress.”
“From where I sit today, federal pre-emission, having a standardized platform that oversees and manages zero is critically important,” Yormark said. “Today, 34 states see it very different and it is relatively irregular.”
December 15, 2024; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Dallas Cowboys Linebacker Micah Parsons (11) goes on the field during the first quarter against Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium. (Jim Dedmon-Preferred Pictures)
“The amount of laws adopted at state level makes it really difficult for us to regulate and compete nationally,” added the Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti. Every time someone doesn’t like a decision, or something comes from NCAA, we end up in litigation. These rules are then gathered and we are back to the start.
“We are hopeful that the combination of what we have done in the settlement will give us an opportunity with some help from Congress to really place a system in a place that has some stability.
“We have crossed the bridge to be willing to give revenue … but we have to have some structure. We cannot have a system that has completely unregulated movement.”
