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[quote="Jarons" pid="2403444" dateline="1683142246"]
North Carolina just passed a bill allowing high school athletes to use their name, image, and likeness. 
Is Kentucky considering this? How do you feel about high school athletes using their name, image, and likeness? 
https://www.witn.com/2023/05/03/nchsaa-p...-athletes/

I think this will get very ugly and it will end amateur sports. If this keeps going the way it’s going you will see the end of high school sports all together. Club sports will pop up everywhere and kids will be paid to play at a very young age.

The quality of high schools sports is already spiraling toward a crash because of KHSAA transfer rules being haphazardly enforced. I am not going to accuse any coach or school of illegally recruiting players but it is obvious that transfers of top tier players among the better programs is becoming more common every year.

I am fundamentally in favor of eliminating rules regarding transfers, but the rules are on the books and I am also fundamentally opposed to the failure of the KHSAA to enforce those rules fairly across the board.

As far as payments to high school athletes, I have never understood how governments and athletic associations can prevent players from profiting from their work. If a kid wants to endorse some product and a company is willing to pay for the endorsement, then I don't see a problem. I am sure that companies will be trying to identify future star collegiate and professional athletes and sign them to contracts as early as possible, but I don't see that happening often enough to destroy high school sports.


THIS EXACTLY!!!! GREAT POST