OUR VIEW: The last amateurs | Editorials

The last amateurs will take the fields across Mississippi starting tonight as high school football season kicks off for public schools. High school football is the last remaining bastion of amateurism in football.

The college game has succumbed to the pressures, resulting in three words that have shaped the landscape of college athletics in ways we have never seen — Name, Image, Likeness. College athletes, from the star football player to a blonde-haired gymnast, are multimillionaires.

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