Poll: Should College Athletes be Paid in Cash vs. Scholarships?

[Manorite]

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One of my football coaches and I talked about this and we both think it’s ridiculous. It should be an honor to get to play at a collegiate level, there are a lot of guys who would kill just to play on a practice squad and get nothing (I’m one of them).

It should be an honor to generate millions of dollars in value for the school and NCAA yet not be properly compensated? This is most basically a question of workers’ rights, where the parties involved won’t even admit that the students are workers.</p>

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They are already receiving $100,000+ education for free.

I covered this in [my</a> earlier post](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/1262872-poll-should-college-athletes-paid-cash-vs-scholarships-5.html#post13669161]my”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/1262872-poll-should-college-athletes-paid-cash-vs-scholarships-5.html#post13669161); basically, the value of the education is not particularly high for the top football players. The degrees are watered down and not particularly relevant for them.</p>

<p>Further, if they are required to do some form of work (play the sports that generate tens of millions of dollars for these top programs), the education is not free. It is a form of compensation. The question is whether or not it is an acceptable means of compensation.</p>