Kentucky plans to award academic bonus money to athletes but no timeline or standards in place yet
Colleges now have the option to pay athletes up to $5.980 per year as a reward for academic performance thanks to a federal ruling in August, 2020, that was upheld by the Supreme Court.
According to ESPN’s Dany Murphy, only 22 of the 130 FBS-level schools have plans now to provide academic bonus payments to athletes and nine of those schools — Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee — are in the SEC. Notice that Alabama, Georgia and Texas A&M don’t have plans in place even though all three schools never seem to have a shortage of money to spend, especially on football...... https://www.yoursportsedge.com/2022...dards-in-place-yet/vaughts-views/larryvaught/
FULL STORY HERE ........... https://www.espn.com/college-sports...allowed-academic-bonus-payments-athletes-year
