Should College Athletes Be Paid?

[grampahol]

Another question not asked nor answered, what's the cut off? Football players only? Basketball ? College baseball programs already have the minor leagues so paying college baseball players is already a dead end which is really unfair. 
Then there's other sports, volleyball  wrestling swimming and on and on. If you're going to pay only college football and basketball players every other sport is going to want a cut and most are money pits anyway like paying a guy to bail water out of a sinking ship in a hurricane. The simple answer that's never going to happen is to end the big football and basketball programs and force the professional leagues to form their own farm clubs and the college sports programs to all go back to what they once were when they were all intramural sports open to all students regardless of talent kind of like high school and stop charging fans admission and stop the lucrative television rights..  of course there's billions upon billions available and when there's so much money available to be skimmed it's always going to be corrupt and it most certainly is corrupted.