Paying college athletes

[aflyingmonkey]

They should not be paid a wage.
They should get Tuition & a monthly Stipend covered.

Seems unfair to the athletes that the school is making so much money off them that they shouldn't get paid something; but in the grand scheme of things they are in college for an education.    Some of those professors/college coaches are making some insane money off them, too.  They retire with hundreds of thousands in bonuses, or whatever they call it, & get an average of $26.000 a month for retirement - yes, that is not a typo it's A MONTH.  Penn State disclosed all this information when they had their scandal going on. Turns out it was quite similar to other big name college sport teams.

[countrygirl12]

Should they be paid?

They do get paid.  They get a free ride to college and get away with murder when they are arrested for crimes because they play football.

[misi49]

College athletes are already being paid.  A free college education is worth a lot of money these days.

[michele2042]

When I first read this post I was a bit concerned because people were saying yes, then I kept reading.  Whew, glad so many say no.   They are not there to "play sports", they are suppose to be getting an education and I say "suppose to" because so many are not getting the education they should be to prepare them for life after college.  It is a very small percentage that go on to play professionally, actually baseball has the most that go on to be professionals (11.6% as of 2012).   As many have said, the ones that are getting all the attention are already on full ride scholarships.  There is already too many scandals involving college sports, paying the athletes would only cause more.   There should be much more regulation on college sports we don't need to be considering paying them.

[timvolley]

I don't believe they should be paid A lot of times they have gotten scholarships for school already

[Tresbn00]

I think that most of them already are in one form or another.  D1 schools give full rides to high level athletes to play at their schools...and occasionally the exceptional student.  That full ride includes food, lodging, trainers, and tuition. My daughter has been accepted at several high end schools because she has never received less than an 'A' in her scholastic life. All of her classes in High School were AP classes (college equivalent classes) and her grade point is a perfect four point five. Captain of the Tennis Team/#1 Seed for the last three years. National Honors Vice president, Student band Manager. Deca National invite four years running.Syracuse offered her five thousand dollars towards a $63,000.00 tuition. Carnegie Mellon offered $4,000.00 towards $65,000.00 tuition.  University of Colorado offered her $16,000 towards $35,000.00. Boston University $4,000/$52,000.00.  College athletes are getting over $250,000.00 if they stay in college for four years...paid to get an education.