No one is naive to think way before college athletes were able to profit from NIL, that players were getting paid, especially star players at big universities.
Cris Carter went to Ohio State in the 80s.
While the story of him making $500 a month from some agents might not seem like a lot of money in 1984, that was a hell of a lot of money for an 18-year-old college freshman.
Carter spoke about that lifestyle on Bleacher Report’s “Untold Stories” and how that led to him doing crack while in college.
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