why is the current system and process broken?
based on what? schools making money? schools cheating? athletes being paid on the sneak? athletes not really belonging in college?
that's never happened before.
i don't want to be misuderstood here. however, for the vast majority of athletes, they are getting a financial reward beyond their actual value.
They are already paid with scholarships. Plus they are being given the opportunity to actually go to college-something most of them would otherwise be incapable of doing on their own. Finally, if being a student-athlete is so exploitative, bordering on modern-day slavery, why are there 100 guys lined up simply hoping to make the teams? If it were so bad, nobody worth a damn would want to play. So no, there is no moral or market-driven need to pay college athletes.
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"They are already paid with scholarships. Plus they are being given the opportunity to actually go to college-something most of them would otherwise be incapable of doing on their own. Finally, if being a student-athlete is so exploitative, bordering on modern-day slavery, why are there 100 guys lined up simply hoping to make the teams? If it were so bad, nobody worth a damn would want to play. So no, there is no moral or market-driven need to pay college athletes."
This.
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Posted via VolNation MobileSo you agree they should be paid but also believe for some reason you are the person worthy of deciding exactly how much they are paid.
I agree that we should give them scholarships, which is a form of payment. Freedom hater? Ha! Not quite. If you want to start a minor league football system in which they are paid, that's fine. But I'm against picking and choosing which students (athletes or not) get "payments." Also, these are amateur athletes. Once you pay them, they lose that status, which sort of defeats the purpose of being enrolled in college. Oh yeah, and I almost forgot, these kids are presumably going to college to do one important yet underrated thing: LEARN. Yes folks, this is something that still happens at academic institutions.
Another freedom hater.
Quite the rationalizing freedom hater is rc.
God forbid adults be able to be compensated for what they actually produce.