For the love of God, just pay college athletes already
Sept 27, 2017 23:40:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 23:40:41 GMT
This vain attempt at maintaining strict amateur status is about as effective as King Canute ordering the tide back. I know it's considered that their "free" college degree is their compensation, but we also know maintaining the required academic grades is only achieved through fraud in some cases. We also know you can set your watch by the number of recruiting scandals.
Considering so many leave before completing the degree, why even have them in the classroom, taking a spot that a better student could take?
Pay them as employees of the college, and if they do want a degree then figure out a way to accommodate that.
Colleges are making ridiculous amounts of money off the labor of these athletes. Way more than the cost of tuition. The athletes deserve to profit from it.
Now, either it's anything goes, the sky is the limit with what they get paid, or there's a strict scale, and we know that the latter will just be abused behind the scenes anyway.
Considering so many leave before completing the degree, why even have them in the classroom, taking a spot that a better student could take?
Pay them as employees of the college, and if they do want a degree then figure out a way to accommodate that.
Colleges are making ridiculous amounts of money off the labor of these athletes. Way more than the cost of tuition. The athletes deserve to profit from it.
Now, either it's anything goes, the sky is the limit with what they get paid, or there's a strict scale, and we know that the latter will just be abused behind the scenes anyway.