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Continued from page 12 it ultimately means. Concerns that we share include “student-athletes…signing over their name, image and likeness rights in perpetuity.

“We’re talking about 18to-22 or 23-year-olds,” noted Carter, who agreed with me that student-athletes really have to know what they are getting themselves into, especially once they put their name on a contract and what

I mean, we’ve seen contracts that have that language in it. “I wouldn’t sign something that says ‘in perpetuity,’” he advised. The U of M Law School has partnered with a local law firm to review NIL contracts for players for free if asked. This service is also available for all Minnesota students and not just for athletes.

Educational classes on his retirement in 1998. to rest the elephant in the room issue of paying college athletes? Will it finally set up an equitable revenue-sharing plan between big-time college sports and the players who largely are responsible for all the money they make for their college or university?

NIL for Gopher players have been made available as well, noted Carter. “Since January, we’ve offered 21 different sessions for student-athletes. We can’t require them to be fiscally responsible. We can’t pull out money and set aside money for taxes in the future.

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Continued from page 12 or in the case of Minnesota athletes, hook up with a collective like Dinkytown. This might seem to be a positive, but negative potential exists out there as well.

“So, there are decisions that ultimately individual student athletes have to make,” said Carter. “But we are doing everything we can to provide them with the resources to make their decisions.”

Will NIL deals finally put championship in 1980. make the roster, it is not necessarily because they weren’t ready for the pros, but simply the limited number of spots couldn’t accommodate them to start the season.

Next week in Another View, a longtime advocate of fair compensation for college players shares his thoughts on NIL.

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”I think the first thing for me is being able to be here,”

Beal told the MSR after the Toronto contest. She pointed out that making the team is hard for everybody,” even veterans that’ve been with the team for several years.

“I definitely think this city

[Toronto] deserves a WNBA team. These people inside and outside the arena are showing love. I see a future for the WNBA here.”

“I think I’ve made a good enough impression to make the final roster,” said Soule. “I think I bring things to the team energy-wise, offensively, defensively that are different. The cards are out of my hands. I just did my job.”

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Continued from page 12 championship. Robinson was quoted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune saying “They wanted it more than we did.

We choked. It’s time to regroup.”

“That was Coach,” said Buckner, who was a senior quarterback for that Polars team and is currently executive director of Friends of the Children-Twin Cities. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Metropolitan State University.

“He was a great mentor and role model,” Buckner continued. “Being part of that team and being coached by him had a big impact on my life.”

Robinson retired as North’s coach after the 1990 season, and remained the school’s athletic director until

Beginning in 1982 after Central was closed, Robinson coached the likes of Mark Eubanks, Jerry Upton, Jeff Robinson, Jeff Williams, Ron Buck, Lawrence Coleman, and Mike Favor, while at North.

By the time my family relocated to Saint Paul from New Brunswick, NJ, when I was entering seventh grade in 1977, Robinson was already established as one of the state’s top high school football coaches at Central, a job he began in 1972.

He went on to coach such players as Charlie Walker, Rickie Davis, Wayne Whitmore, Calvin Anderson, James Holmes Jr., Russell Gary, Rodney Lewis, Jeff Byrd, Willie Roller, Charles Rucker, Tim Robinson, David Thompson, and Peter Najarian to name a few, leading the Pioneers to a City Conference