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Old 01-24-2014, 09:27 PM   #1
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Old 01-25-2014, 02:29 PM   #2
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Absolutely. They play just as hard or harder then pro players, the NCAA is and schools are just being greedy to make sure they make as much money as possible. Just because someone is in college shouldn't stop them from being paid.
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Old 02-01-2014, 04:39 PM   #3
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They already get paid for what they do. They live, eat, travel get an education all for free. Why should they be paid on top of that?

If you say you are gonna pay them, then what do they make? What is fair? Does everyone make the same amount? Is it like the pros, you hire an agent and go to whoever offers the most money? What about smaller schools that don't have the same kind of money as the bigger ones do?

Way to many issues to even start considering before you could pay them. There would be issues at the schools themselves between their own teams. The football players would think they deserve more then the basketball players and the other way around. The women would be upset about not being paid the same as the men if the weren't.

Where do you start with it.? Where does the money come from? Yeah the schools make money off the students, but they have too. The schools pay for everything. This is a dumb issue, period. If the kids don't like it then they don't have to go play for the schools. They can go over seas and play or whatever. There are lots and lots of other issues that would have to be considered before they could do it.
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Old 02-13-2014, 11:41 PM   #4
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NO way! They get enough. They get new shoes. They get money to eat ,travel and more. 4 year education. That is about 45,000 a year. I sure don't feel sorry for them. Some of the kids couldn't afford to go there other wise. They have a great deal. I agree with cusefan74.
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Old 02-17-2014, 11:15 AM   #5
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When you are 17 and walk into a school store and see a lifesize poster of you selling for 100 dollars as you are going to eat terrible cafe food puts things into perspective. You say "oh they get free education and college" which is exactly what they want you to say.

Firstly, college isnt for everybody. And colleges make BILLIONS off of merchandising amateur athletes, then say we are letting you go to our school for free. But the university benefits WAY more than the athlete. Sure the athlete goes to school for free, but the university pockets billions.

Your using my person to make gargantuan profits, and I have no say or benefit from it. Sounds very fair.

So Im not sure about every athlete but guys like Tebow, Manziel, Clarett, Reggie Bush, etc who were college superstars should receive compensation or the university cant use their person for profit.
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Re: Should college athletes be paid?

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Originally Posted by cusefan74
They already get paid for what they do. They live, eat, travel get an education all for free. Why should they be paid on top of that?

If you say you are gonna pay them, then what do they make? What is fair? Does everyone make the same amount? Is it like the pros, you hire an agent and go to whoever offers the most money? What about smaller schools that don't have the same kind of money as the bigger ones do?

Way to many issues to even start considering before you could pay them. There would be issues at the schools themselves between their own teams. The football players would think they deserve more then the basketball players and the other way around. The women would be upset about not being paid the same as the men if the weren't.

Where do you start with it.? Where does the money come from? Yeah the schools make money off the students, but they have too. The schools pay for everything. This is a dumb issue, period. If the kids don't like it then they don't have to go play for the schools. They can go over seas and play or whatever. There are lots and lots of other issues that would have to be considered before they could do it.
Ding ding ding!! Does everyone forget that they get free what every other college student has to pay ten's of thousands of dollars for?
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Old 02-27-2014, 11:48 AM   #7
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Ding ding ding!! Does everyone forget that they get free what every other college student has to pay ten's of thousands of dollars for?
Seriously...the entitlement some of these athletes have is ridiculous. I wish that I could get a full ride scholarship to my dream school, to play a game I love, and not have to accumulate tens of thousands of dollars of student debt to get my education in the process. It drives me insane to hear a Reggie Bush, Johnny Manziel, Terrelle Pryor, or whoever complain about not being paid for their services. They are being "paid" roughly $40k per year for playing their sport. That money is going towards bettering their future, giving them an education, and making it so that if they blow out their knee in their rookie season and get cut/fall out of the league, they have a degree and can get a job in the real world after sports and father time come knocking.

Also, as many have said in the past...there's way too much confounding this idea. How do you definitively determine who makes what? How do you decide how much to pay to each athlete? How much do the non-premier sport athletes make? It's illegal to compensate one and not the other (I believe, I'm not super up-to-date on Title IX but I seem to recall that being the main reason why this will never happen.)

I don't see why this is even a debate honestly.
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Old 02-27-2014, 02:43 PM   #8
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Re: Should college athletes be paid?

There are non-athlete students that are on scholarship.. full-rides even.. that are able to make money off of their talents.

Why the hypocrisy?

Make it a free-market, and allow the players that can make money off of their abilities to do so.
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