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South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier is making waves at SEC meetings in Destin, Florida with a proposal to pay SEC players $300 per game for expenses. Giving 70 players a stipend for 12 games would bring a price tag of $252,000 and Spurrier says he would pay that expense out of his own pocket. A total of seven SEC coaches including Spurrier signed the proposal.
“They can give to their parents for travel, lodging, meals,” Spurrier said in this article from twackle.com. “Maybe they could take their girlfriends out Saturday night and so forth. A bunch of us coaches felt so strongly about it we would be willing to pay 70 guys 300 bucks a game,” Spurrier said. “That’s only $21,000 a game. I doubt it will get passed, but as the coaches in the SEC we make all the money as do the universities with television [deals]. And we need to give more to our players. That was something we need to get out there.”
Here's the AP story below:
Spurrier, others propose paying football players
DESTIN, Fla. (AP) - Steve Spurrier has a plan to pay players - and it wouldn't cost schools or conferences a dime. South Carolina's head ball coach offered an interesting yet far-from-feasible proposal Wednesday that would give 70 players $300 every game for expenses. Spurrier acknowledged that the plan probably won't get very far at the Southeastern Conference's annual meetings or in the NCAA realm, but it could open the door for future dialogue on the issue of sharing millions in college football revenue with the guys who really make it happen. Spurrier, Alabama's Nick Saban, Florida's Will Muschamp, LSU's Les Miles, Mississippi's Houston Nutt, Mississippi State's Dan Mullen and Tennessee's Derek Dooley signed the proposal. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive calls it a "generous gesture."
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