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The NCAA will let athletes wear social justice messages on their jerseys but still won’t pay them

It’s time to change this.

The year is 2020 and the NCAA is still doing absolutely any and everything but paying the athletes.

The NCAA is allowing its student athletes to wear social justice messages on the backs of their jerseys throughout the upcoming college sports season, according to a report from The Athletic’s Shams Charania.

The NCAA’s new policy follows in the footsteps of different professional sports leagues who are allowing their players to do the same, including the WNBA, NBA and MLS.

The athletes will be able to replace their last name with words celebrating or memorializing people, events or other causes they support.

That’s a great thing! It’s nice to see the NCAA allowing these young athletes to support causes they feel strongly about on a big platform.

But. Question. Can they put “pay us” on the back of their jerseys? Because that absolutely falls under the umbrella, though it’s probably not a cause the NCAA sees as valid.

The NCAA is an organization worth billions and it’s all on the backs of these various student athletes who aren’t paid a dime for it. This initiative is beyond hypocritical.

The internet took the NCAA to task for it.

Yeah, the NCAA absolutely had this one coming. They can fix it, though. They just need to pay their athletes.

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