Should College athletes should be getting paid?
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I think they should get some sort of stipend when they are there. Nothing too big, but enough to let them live comfortably, and possibly avoid a bad situation like accepting $ from boosters. It's a sticky situation though. How would you determine who gets what? Do you base it on income? Do football players (highest income sport) get more than baseball players? Do stars get more than benchwarmers? NCAA doesn't have an answer, so they'll just keep the money for themselves. They are definitely a money hungry monopoly. How else would you explain the college bowl / BCS system?
i never really thought about that.
if you think about it, sport games @ schools (especially football) bring in alot of profit to the school. im interested in finding out wat (if anything) do these players get.
In a sense, they are. An athlete playing on a scholarship at some universities (Northwestern, for example) is in effect being paid $25, 000.00 and up in tuition alone. Add in room and board, books, etc., this goes up another $3,000.00 or more. This is on top of the "jobs" that are arranged for which they do little or no work and whatever they are getting under the table from wealthy alumni.
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