Should College Athletes Be Paid?

[fredtoast]

(10-05-2018, 02:51 PM)Whatever Wrote: The athletes get a piece of that pie in the form of their scholarship.

That is like saying slavery was not that bad because they all got free meals.  OSU gets over $20 million in TV money before they even count the money they make from tickets and concessions at the games.  Then there are million more to be made in bowl games.

(10-05-2018, 02:51 PM)Whatever Wrote: 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.  

Then why pay coaches millions of dollars per year?  The players are the ones who get broken bones and concussions.