07-05-2012 04:31 PM

Money is always a concern for Georgia Southern athletics director Sam Baker.

So when a four-team college football playoff was announced for Football Bowl Championship teams last week, prompting officials to speculate about paying players with some of the additional money from the event, Baker understood the trickle-down effect for the Eagles’ future athletics budget.

“It’s going to be a perplexing question. If it’s mandated (and) we have to do this, what are we going to do?” Baker said.

Southern recently announced the football program would seek to play at the FBS level.

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