>College Athletes should be paid

Not even a portion of their own jersey sales?

>>75069599
they should be. colleges are getting billions from free labor. if you start a business in college you will get that money

>>75069599
SKEEYUP

SKEUUUUUP if mah dag had a squared ass he would poo boxes

Honestly the root of the argument needs to start elsewhere. What ARE these players actually? Are they just college students who happen to play sports? Or are they valuable workers in a profitable business, who will likely go on to become future professionals?

The first kind are student athletes (most of them are) and shouldn't be paid.
The second kind are athlete students (the ones that actually matter) and should be paid.

>>75069833
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College is not a Pro Sports League

I agree and have been arguing this for years

problem is really only top 50 mens fb and basketball players are worth anything, so with the communists on college campuses you'd never get away with not paying women exactly the same

really amateur sports should be handled by pro leagues and left out of college academia all together, too many politics

>>75069796
No unless its a manziel, tebow, newton caliber athlete when a fan buys a college jersey they just pick a number they like or there favorite current player. Chances are if that player never went to that school that fan would still by a jersey of a diffent player. The sell is mostly dependent on the school and not the specific player. The problem is when you have the manziels of the world that neutral fans who dont care about a&m but mainly manziel in that case you could argue he made a direct impact in making someone buy a a&m jersey who isent necessarly a fan. Obviosly theres no way to properly measure this so i feel maybe the best step is to out some minimum sale requirement where if they sell that players specific jersery to a set amount that you could tell its because them and not the school they should get a cut

>>75069917
Agree here or just drop the for profit aspect and stop selling tickets and just let people come free and use tution and or grants to fund operations.

But i always wonder why nfl and nba dont go with a nhl or mlb style so this discustion can just end

>>75069896
MUH GRANDMU SAYD HE WHO LUAGHS LAST LUAGHED LAST

KIKIKIKIKIKIKI

BRON BE LIKE : "POP POP!! " OOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE KIKIKIKI

This guy is seriously on TV.

>>75069913
then put if in a trust for later on. it not right to have the people who are putting in the most work get nothing

the problem with abolishing college sports as the de facto amateur system for some sports is that college athletics came first in america, and now has gotten far too big to switch over entirely. if we were gonna do it we should've done it like 70 years ago. now it makes too much money for them to give it up, which is the only reason why paying players is even an issue.

>>75070018
The problem with the logic behind that is that it still incentivizes top level talent, meaning that the best universities can still sweet talk top recruits with how much they stand to earn there compared to elsewhere. The competitive dynamic is identical, it's just only a minor functional difference in that they receive their pay after they leave rather than while they're still there.

Which is to say, opponents against paying players are not so much against them receiving money, as they are against having the work that athletes put in be treated as something that earns pay. They don't care if it comes now or later, it shouldn't merit compensation, apparently.