Should Players Get Paid?

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.

The whole system is broken. The NCAA is a mess, the BCS and bowl system is flat out stealing money from the universities, and in my opionion the revenue generating sports are punished by both title 9 and having to finance all other athletic institutions.
 
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."




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I've always thought there was a good way to do it responsibly, and it reflects directly what their performance on the field is. NCAA should put in place a rule where the School takes 1% of ticket office sales and says they have to give it to the respective team to divide EVENLY amongst the SCHOLARSHIP players. If 1% is a make you/break you deal for the school than there's a larger issue than that 1%. This also adds the incentive to the players that, the more they're involved with fans, and the better they play, the more tickets are sold, which means the more $$ for them at the end of the season.
 
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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how do you have any clue what percentage of them could not go to college? That has to be one of the most judgemental statements i have ever read on this board
 
"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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There is not one valid reason to prohibit them from being paid.
 
how do you have any clue what percentage of them could not go to college? That has to be one of the most judgemental statements i have ever read on this board

Have you heard them talk? Stop kidding yourself.
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Scholarship = payment. What else would you call it?
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So 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.

Another freedom hater.
 
So 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.
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so you believe they could not get into a university but they are there to learn....you sir need to quit kidding yourself
 
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.

It seems like every day that I'm surprised by just how many people here are completely clueless.
 
Quite the rationalizing freedom hater is rc.

God forbid adults be able to be compensated for what they actually produce.

I graduated with a 3.9 and went to law school. Nobody paid me to do it. I got paid later. Same concept. The people who are "exploiting" these poor athletes earned degrees and their positions in the hierarchy that regulates college football and the NCAA. They earned that right.
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