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Pay college football players? Not on my watch. That has been my opinion for years, and not one of those 51-49 kind of opinions -- the ones where I can see both sides, but if I have to pick, I'll pick the side opposed to paying college football players. Nope, not like that at all.
Pay college football players? I've been 100 percent against it. I can prove it, too. Read this story I wrote in September 2010 and tell me if you can detect even a smidgen of wiggle room. Bet you can't.
Pay college football players? When pigs fly.
Or, tragically, when Junior Seau kills himself.
And then, just like that, I change...
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