The exploitation of College Athletes

[College Wolf]

I find it rediculous of all the money that the NCAA makes off its student athletes. Yet, these students are expected to play FOR FREE, while their colleges make millions of dollars off them from such events as the BCS bowl games, the Final Four Tournament, to name a few.

When a student takes a couple hundred bucks from a booster and gets caught, he gets ostracized in the media and usually suspended. It's rediculous how much money universities are making. It's a meat market, plain a simple. No wonder they don't want anything to change, I wouldnt either if I were them. I think at the very minimum student athletes should get some kind of stipend, something to pay their rent at least.

I was at a sports memoribilia store in a mall downtown here today in San Diego and saw authographed footballs, pictures, and jerseys of college stars like Bush, Vince Young and etc and they were selling from anywhere of $200 - $1000 depending on what it was. The students can't sell their own autographs yet these stores can??? How rediculous! Such a small percentage of these players are going to hit it big some day...I really think they should get paid something by the NCAA or their own university. It's just rediculous to not expect them to get any money back from the vast amount of monies that they earn for the universities.... Such terrible exploitation.

[Ryan]

They get scholarships worth thousands of dollars.

Believe me I would LOVE to get a full ride to college just to play basketball. Unfortuantly, even the small Mid-Con conference school I go to doesn't have a desire for a 6'1 guy who can't even play a pick-up game anymore without hurting a shoulder or knee.

[College Wolf]

They get scholarships worth thousands of dollars.

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So they go somewhere for free. There is lots of places they can go for free. There are still expenses that they must pay which the scholarship does not cover. What would it hurt for the college to give them a few extra bucks for living expenses when they are making millions off them??

[60 Cent]

So they go somewhere for free. There is lots of places they can go for free. There are still expenses that they must pay which the scholarship does not cover. What would it hurt for the college to give them a few extra bucks for living expenses when they are making millions off them??

I think paying student-atheletes a stipend for living expenses or for necessities is completely acceptable. The only CATCH is that any violations or sancations that schools commit with student-athletes being paid results in significantly more severe sanctions.

[College Wolf]

Yeah, that's what I've been saying. Maybe they could do it based on a % of what the school has earned directly from the students in that sport... That way, if they are a sucky program the school won't have to give out too much and wont go broke. However, for the dominant schools in D1 Basketball and football, there would be a cap, so no matter how much the school wins or takes in, their won't be a penchant for abuse.