Should College Athletes Be Paid?

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(10-05-2018, 12:45 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Because the top 5 conferences each make over TWO HUNDRED AND FITY MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR in TV revenue alone.

The players are the ones who have to work out all year and suffer the injuries.  They deserve a piece of that pie.

The athletes get a piece of that pie in the form of their scholarship.

The other part of this a large percentage of the athletes from the money making sports would not have the opportunity to attend college if not for athletic scholarships.  Most of them would not be able to afford college if they even had the grades and test scores to be accepted under a normal admissions process.  Not to mention that they get extreme degrees of preferential treatment when it comes to things like tutors and the grading process.  I can name names of OSU graduates that I've witnessed first-hand that can only write at about a 6th grade level.

The athletes, frankly, aren't the main ones drawing the money.  The major Universities all have a massive built in viewing audience in the form of their alumni. If they had to go back to assembling teams out of the general student body, they would still make a fortune.