{"id":31800,"date":"2022-01-13T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31800"},"modified":"2022-01-13T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:01:40","slug":"should-uga-football-players-earn-154000-per-season-some-fans-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=31800","title":{"rendered":"Should UGA Football players earn $154,000 per season? Some fans think so"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following the Georgia Bulldogs epic win<\/a> in Monday\u2019s National Championship Game, Georgia football fans clearly believe their players should also be rewarded for their efforts financially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, any college football fan would have picked up on the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark decision last year, which upended a decades-old NCAA model that considered college athletes as strictly amateurs, unable to be remunerated for playing their chosen sport. While the ruling still forbids salaries, it does allow college athletes to benefit financially in other ways. This could end up meaning athletes capitalizing monetarily on their celebrity status. Supreme Justice Kavanaugh described it as “an important and overdue course correction<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the court\u2019s decision did categorically rule out salaries, it does beg the question\u2014hypothetically, if they were to receive salaries, how much would be fair? FANDUEL.com<\/a> posed this question to 3,000 college football fans in a poll, which revealed some interesting results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study revealed that, on average, fans believe college football<\/a> players should receive a yearly salary of $170,815. Not a bad salary for a 20-something-year-old, but some may be surprised that it is a little on the low side, considering that many of these athletes play in front of huge audiences, and have celebrity status themselves. However, when comparing against a median NFL salary, the survey result starts to make more sense. In fact, many are surprised to learn that the median NFL salary is \u201cjust\u201d $860,000. Many fans\u2019 perceptions of NFL salaries are perhaps swayed by the big money contracts offered to starting quarterbacks, the average being a cool $5,766,000<\/a>. And a few have contracts of over $30 million a season! For context, the median salary for a running back in the NFL is $630,000\u2014not a shabby income, but these guys tend to only last around 3 years playing in the league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, different college football fans have different perceptions on what their players should be paid. The survey found that Florida fans of teams such as the Florida State Seminoles, the Florida Gators, and the Miami Hurricanes topped the salary expectation league. Fans think their players should receive an average salary of $228,920 per season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The survey found that fans of the Georgia Bulldogs would want their players to earn $154,800 per season. Those supporting the Nebraska Cornhuskers, however, think their players should only receive a salary of $91,160 per season\u2014still not bad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infographic showing a breakdown of salaries per college team<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALABAMA: Alabama Crimson Tide + Auburn Tigers – $190,429<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARIZONA: Arizona Wildcats + Arizona Sun State Devils – $215,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARKANSAS: Arkansas Razorbacks – $152,889<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CALIFORNIA: California Golden Bears + UCLA Bruins + USC Trojans + Stanford Cardinals – $203,273<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLORADO: Colorado Buffaloes – $132,909<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FLORIDA: Florida State Seminoles + Miami Hurricanes + Florida Gators – $228,682<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GEORGIA: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets + Georgia Bulldogs – $154,800<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ILLINOIS: Illinois Fighting Illini + Northwestern Wildcats – $144,593<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INDIANA: Indiana Hoosiers + Purdue Boilermakers + Notre Dame Fighting Irish – $181,297<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IOWA: Iowa Hawkeyes + Iowa State Cyclones – $137,600<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KANSAS: Kansas Jayhawks + Kansas State Wildcats – $201,563<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KENTUCKY: Louisville Cardinals + Kentucky Wildcats – $188,863<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOUISIANA: Louisiana Tigers – $219,778<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MARYLAND: Maryland Terrapins – $138,710<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MASSACHUSETTS: Boston College Eagles – $174,263<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MICHIGAN: Michigan Wolverines + Michigan State Spartans – $154,800<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MINNESOTA: Minnesota Golden Gophers – $180,323<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MISSISSIPPI: Ole Miss Rebels + Mississippi State Bulldogs – $152,889<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MISSOURI \u2013 Missouri Tigers – $144,024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEBRASKA \u2013 Nebraska Cornhuskers – $91,160<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW JERSEY: Rutgers Scarlet Knights – $223,600<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK: Syracuse Orange – $205,444<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NORTH CAROLINA: Duke Blue Devils + North Carolina Tar Heels + NC State Wolfpack + Wake Forest Demon Deacons – $221,973<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OHIO: Ohio State Buckeyes – $200,115<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma State Cowboys + Oklahoma Sooners – $113,029 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OREGON: Oregon Ducks + Oregon State Beavers – $172,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh Panthers + Penn State Nittany Lions – $155,619<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOUTH CAROLINA: Clemson Tigers + South Carolina Gamecocks – $174,966<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TENNESSEE: Tennessee Volunteers + Vanderbilt Commodores – $154,800<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TEXAS: Baylor Bears + TCU Horned Frogs + Texas Tech Red Raiders + Texas Longhorns + Texas A&M Aggies – $181,096<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UTAH: Utah Utes – $166,267<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VIRGINIA: Virginia Cavaliers + Virginia Tech Hokies – $152,581<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON: Washington Huskies + Washington State Cougars – $164,412<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEST VIRGINIA: West Virginia Mountaineers – $176,914<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WISCONSIN: Wisconsin Badgers – $147,813<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile salaries for playing football at college are still not permitted under the NCAA model, should this rule ever be changed, our survey at least provides a good benchmark of what college football salaries should be,\u201d says a spokesperson for FANDUEL.com<\/a>. \u201cWe had a lot of fun working on this hypothetical study!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=9]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the Georgia Bulldogs epic win in Monday\u2019s National Championship Game, Georgia football fans clearly believe their players should also be rewarded for their efforts financially.  Indeed, any college football fan would have picked up on the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark decision last year, which upended a decades-old NCAA model that considered college athletes as strictly amateurs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8225],"tags":[10284,8790,10789,8473,10778,8777],"class_list":["post-31800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-media","tag-national-championship","tag-uga","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}