Mack Brown hoping for player stipend

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    The new playoff system means big money for major college football, as much as a half-billion dollars per year just in television rights alone.

    That has Texas coach Mack Brown -- among others -- wondering if some of that windfall should be heading the players' way.

    "In my opinion, with the amount of money the playoff will generate, I hope we can revisit the student-athlete stipend," Brown tweeted soon after the new, semifinal format was approved by university presidents Tuesday in Washington.

    "It will be a very lucrative event and those young people are the ones that make it all possible," he added.

    Read more: http://espn.go.com/college-football...nghorns-hoping-playoff-reignites-stipend-talk
     

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