Robert Farmer was a highly recruited tailback coming out of Bolingbrook High School. He struggled to crack the starting lineup at Notre Dame which recruits high school All-Americans every year. Now that the draft is over, players will be reporting to their teams for mini-camps beginning on November 13th. Unlike the NFL, there will be no players holding out ,trying to negotiate their contracts. Individual teams do not have owners and the league is owned in part by the World Wide Wrestling Corporation, headed by Vince McMahon.
Players agree to the league s salary compensation upon signing the contract.
We have no negotiations. You have no owners in there who are going to disrupt the progress of the league, because it s centrally controlled, Meyer said. The Columbia Chronicle is a student produced publication of Columbia College Chicago and does not necessarily represent, in whole or in part, the views of Columbia College administrators, faculty or students. The Columbia Chronicle is an award-winning college newspaper written and distributed weekly by the students at Views expressed here are not necessarily those of the Journalism Department or the college.