Should College Athletes Get Paid?

People use to ask me around the end of the college football season or the end of the college basketball season should college athletes get paid? And I use to say no way they already get tuition, room,board, and books for free isn't that enough on top that they get free food most of the time and get to play the sport they love while some these students with full academic scholarship still have to pay for room and board. Students that are inspiring to be doctor or lawyer they can't even afford to go law school or medical school without building a load of debt along the way. So why should college athletes get paid? Well let me tell you.

It's simple when the NCAA makes a deal with CBS/Tuner Sports for March Madness between 2011 to 2024 for 10.8 billion dollars, not million, billion dollars for only three weekend out the year. This doesn't include what each school makes during March Madness and whole the college basketball season. On top of that the BCS made a four year deal with ESPN wroth 500 million dollars once again that doesn't include what each school makes the whole football season. So combined those two deal which would be around 11.3 billion dollars that could help out with the national debt. Why not take off 1.3 billion dollars off the top and pay these athletes that are bring in all the money.

Some would say how would you determine which sports gets paid? Easy, obviously basketball and football would make the most money then you would have your second tear sports like baseball, lacrosse, volleyball, field hockey etc. that would get least money. Now if you are a basketball player at Duke or a football player at Alabama you would be making more money than anyone else at your school. Its simple which every sports team brings in the most money to that school that team is going to be making more money. Now some  say that may not be fair well that capitalism for you.

What's not fair is these college coaches making millions of dollars while its the players out there busting thier butts for their school and coach but yet not seeing a dime. Taking that 1.3 billion from the NCAA, and remember not from the schools, would be the easiest situation but the NCAA is way to greedy for that. In my eyes the NCAA and these college are using these athletes like cattle using them for billions and billions dollars to fund everything including their own pockets.