The NCAA should allow pay for play

How are you going to pay all the other athletes?

You think this ends with paying just football players?

Some of you will never learn.

And what happens when a player transfers?

I guess you've missed the recent SJW ads from Nike & ESPN about "muh equal pay"?

Even if you get beyond all of the insanity regarding contracts and the like, the people who continue to say this don't understand:

All they will do is say, okay, let's check out your paycheck:

Just for the sake of argument, how much do you guys think Dan Mullen would charge to mentor a Quarterback, one on one? I'm going to say it'd probably be in the ballpark of a couple million.

After that, what about lodging, food access to hospitals? Probably a lot of money.

Scholarship? At Florida it's a lot.

Connections to the NFL as well as programs just in case you don't make it? Almost can't have a price put on it.

We're not even getting into facilities (bought and paid for by the university) and the rest of the coaching staff -- nutritionists, S&C, general sports consultants.

So what's going to happen? They're going to come to the negotiating table, thinking about all of this money that they're going to be making and then they're going to see how much they have to pay the school to partake in all of these benefits -- and it will be zero.

And every school will make sure it is zero.

People who want these athletes to be paid don't understand that they're already making millions of dollars without even realizing what they've got access to. If you go to a smaller school where you don't have access to these things -- pity, you should focus on your education.

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Players getting paid is as free market as it gets. (Kind of ironic coming from a commie state like California)

A compromise would be to pay players a reasonable amount of money but put a cap on how much a player/team can receive each season to even out the playing field for smaller budget schools.

4 million per team with no player allowed to receive more than 40k per season seems incredibly doable.

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Does this mean Bama gone be buyin' up all the good players?

I guess details like retirement plans and insurance coverage can be worked out at a later date. I wonder if the insurance will cover the whole family or just the employee?

Notify me when the first strike happens for mo' money. Bama will send in strike busters while the other teams get punked out for bigger salaries.

One good thing is that the employees will be required to work 40 hrs. a week. That is really going to help the workers develop into better athletes. Overtime pay will probably be great.

How long do we think Ole Miss will field an athletic program of any kind if the school has to bid for athletes in an open market, or Mississippi State, or Vanderbilt? Even with caps, for which professional sports leagues have antitrust exemption, the political climate may force schools to treat all athletes, stars or not, revenue sports athletes or not, equally on pay. The argument that the market will determine which athletes should be paid and which should not will not survive the onslaught of demand that women should be equally compensated. Just remember Title IX. Paying college athletes will ultimately end college athletics as we know it. The unintended consequences will see to it.

If it is a public university, it will ultimately be the state that pays.

only a lib reb would see this as a good idea. it does nothing but RUIN college athletics.

You forgot medical attention.

Lets say you fall and get hurt at your job. Your insurance must pay for any surgery related things that go with that. Players now get the best medical attention there is and its all paid for by the program.

I dont agree with paying them. There are just too many bad things that can happen from it

The only way to get around tittle 9 is to give them a percentage of jersey sales.