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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fr. John L. Jenkins, president of Notre Dame, stands firm in his belief that college athletes should not be paid, he tells &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt;\u2019 Dan Barry.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201COur relationship to these young people is to educate them, to help them grow,\u201D Jenkins says of his alma mater. \u201CNot to be their agent for financial gain.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If college football ever reached the state of paying its athletes, Jenkins says that Notre Dame would leave the league, regardless of what boosters would think, and join a conference with other universities that share the same stance on pay for play.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CPerhaps institutions will make decisions about where they want to go\u2014a semipro model or a different, more educational model\u2014and I welcome that,\u201D Jenkins said. \u201CI wouldn\u2019t consider that a bad outcome, and I think there would be schools that would do that.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notre Dame would also consider leaving if sports lawyer Jeffrey Kessler wins the pending lawsuit filed against the NCAA and Power Five conferences that argues that the value of student-athletes is limited by athletic scholarships. Jenkins views that fallout as the end of college football as we know it and a foray into semi-professional athletics.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, Jenkins tells &lt;em&gt;The Times&lt;/em&gt; that he would be willing to support a quarterback\u2019s selling his autograph or hiring an agent to help him monetize his fame. Notre Dame would not have any part in the athlete's financial ventures.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are ranked ninth is the first Associated Press college football poll of the year following their 38\u20133 victory over the Texas Longhorns on Saturday.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Christopher Chavez&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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