{"id":896,"date":"2013-09-10T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=896"},"modified":"2013-09-10T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:46:49","slug":"oklahoma-state-paid-football-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/09\/10\/oklahoma-state-paid-football-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma State paid football players"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-897\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-897 \" alt=\"MIke Gundy's Blog\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/09\/osu.jpg\" width=\"675\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/09\/osu.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/09\/osu-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/09\/osu-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIke Gundy&#8217;s Blog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At least eight Oklahoma State football players were paid during the head coaching tenure of Les Miles and current coach Mike Gundy.<\/p>\n<p>According to report by<a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/college-football\/news\/20130910\/oklahoma-state-part-1-money\/#ixzz2eV5wTgGa\" target=\"_blank\"> Sports Illustrated<\/a> payments<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;were primarily delivered three ways: a de facto bonus system based on performances on the field, managed by an assistant coach; direct payments to players from boosters and coaches independent of performance; and no-show and sham jobs &#8212; including work related to the renovation of Boone Pickens Stadium &#8212; that involved at least one assistant coach and several boosters.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Players at Oklahoma State who were interviewed said they received anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 a year and often the determining factor for being paid was simply asking for financial assistance.<\/p>\n<p>This will clearly add more fire to the debate as to whether NCAA players should be paid to play sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight Oklahoma State football players were paid during the head coaching tenure of Les Miles and current coach Mike Gundy. According to report by Sports Illustrated payments &#8220;were primarily delivered three ways: a de facto bonus system based on performances on the field, managed by an assistant coach; direct payments to players from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[91,51],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaafb-news","tag-mike-gundy","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}