Whether college athletes should be paid or not has been widely debated for the past couple of weeks or so. I, for one, think they are already paid. They are paid with a college education. That is why they are called student athletes.
It is not the college's fault or the NCAA's fault if they do not finish their degrees or do not take their education seriously. In some of the top flight educational institutions, that education is worth $200,000 or more. A non-athlete almost has to have an Einsteinian IQ, grades that are off the charts, and have extra curricular activies that guarantees no sleep while they are in high school in order to qualify for admission.
The NCAA is a major business enterprise and they are only kidding themselves if they do not believe that. The TV contracts, licensing contracts, and sponsorship money rake in millions and millions of dollars for the NCAA and their member institutions and it probably is disproportionate to what the cost of a college scholarship is. The athletes are still being paid with that education.
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