It's become very clear that college athletics has entered new territory. After the House vs. NCAA settlement was approved last week. That settlement allows for student athletes to be directly paid by the universities.
It will officially go into effect beginning on July 1. It has become a new talking point for former Spartan basketball star and legend Greg Kelser who starred alongside Magic Johnson on the 1979 Michigan State basketball team that famously won the NCAA Championship over Larry Bird's Indiana State team.
Kelser's era certainly is far from what college athletes are going through now, and it was a major talking point for Greg on his recent appearance on Jack Ebling's show ''The Drive with Jack.''
"It's not the college template (today) that I think any of us prefer," Kelser said. "But I'll say this: I can go back 40 -- almost 50 years -- when I first started playing at Michigan State, I always felt we should be compensated. I knew that there was tremendous amounts of money that were being generated on the backs of those athletes in the revenue of sports. And yet people said for the longest time, 'Well, you're getting a free education.' Well, you know what? I didn't think that was efficient enough."
Kelser certainly made fair points about both the positive and the negative. He was more bothered by the fact that whoever is going and compensating players from 10 years back or whatever it may be, why they can't go even further back.
"I guess there's no fair way; you got to cut it off at some point, but it would have been nice to have been included in that," he said.
No matter how you slice it, the flood gates are open, and everyone wants their slice of the pie. It does beg the question how far back is to long especially when it comes to paying the athletes.