Do college football players now have more leverage in the pay-for-play fight?

Do college football players now have more leverage in the pay-for-play fight?

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PETE THAMEL: Just do think-- again, this is like the ultimate "Fantasyland" pod topic right now. You have heard over the years that it was the UNLV, one of the UNLV Final Fours in the early '90s where players were thinking about holding a strike, for holding out. Now, it would be inopportune to do it now because of the COVID situation, but the players have never had more power. The power of king football has never been more apparent than right now.

And if the players who are likely going to be shipped onto moderately empty campuses, perhaps quarantine, and then played in front of no fans, if the players basically looked at this risk and said, wait a minute, this is like we're almost professionals, which they are and we all know they are. They are the very important cogs in a billion dollar business. I think there has never been a time where they have more leverage, when their value has been more apparent, where they could leverage and ask for more.