Every time I hear the various talking heads on various sports shows discuss how they think college football and basketball players should be payed by the institutions they attend I can’t help but wonder how uninformed those talking heads are. Have any of them ever heard of Title IX? Institutions won’t be able to just pay players in the revenue sports like football and basketball. Anything the football and basketball players get paid the same amount will need to be paid to the student-athletes on the (insert your own team of least interest here).
With that many athletes to be paid the dollar amount the schools would be able to pay each of them would be so small it would not at all discourage the players in the big-time sports from accepting under-the-table money and other favors. And even if you could in some fantasy- Continue reading
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