Should NCAA players be paid? 

Lol thank u for saying that. I used to play ball in HS n was almost feeling bad cause I didnt in college but I figured it would be that way and decided it wasn't really worth it that athletic grind the all time hardest shit right up under the military.

BraveNewWorldSH I agree 💯

You think these colleges should make billions off these athletes?

The SEC made 540 million from the SEC network on the backs of the so called student athletes and as an American you are not them getting paid. Everyone is making a lot of money we’re talking a billion dollar industry and college tuitions are still rising. The money is going to old white guys and y’all are riding for them. Its out right wrong.

The scholarship part makes this a tiny bit more unclear, however it doesn't make the whole situation go away. To start of there are players who don't have a scholarship and also don't get paid, they pay for their housing,food , transport, etc yet they don't get paid that obviously doesn't make sense. However even a scholarship player should be paid something, because it's not like these school aren't getting any benefit from these players. In a way it's kind of like if an unpaid intern was to invented something that ends up making millions of dollars while working at your company, the company obviously deserves some money, because the worker invented that object as a worker for that company, while working for that company, using the company's tools, computers, knowledge, facility etc. Now the company could take all the money from the invention and say, that they are entitled to all the money because your pay/reward for working at that company was the work experience or so you have something extra to put on your resume for when you are looking for a paid job later. Of course, that doesn't seem like the right thing, the much better situation is if the company earned some of the money, because after all they were part of the invention process and the inventor deserves some money. These schools have some cost associated with having these players, the most obvious one is scholarships, then there is the training and related cost, they need to pay coaches to teach these kids how to play, they need facilities for them to train and play at, they need to pay for the uniform, the gear, transport,upkeep, etc. The other side is that the schools earn a lot of money from these players, there is a major gap between how much the cost is as opposed to how much the earnings are, it's not like there isn't money to pay these players, it's just that the schools choose to not do so. Nobody is asking to pay these players millions of dollars because after all they are amateurs (Kind of bizarre the schools feel they need to pay the coaches seven million dollars for coaches for amateurs) Also, don't these players have daily practices, which are often hours long? So they have to go to school and then afterwards they have to go to practice, both of which take most of the hours from their days, when are they even supposed to to earn some money working at a fast food restaurant, so they have some spending money? Are these players allowed to skip on practices to go to work and earn some money and just go to school?

Youre just jealous because u camt get an athletic scholarship. Some people have academic gifts, they will get scholarships with grades. Others cant, this poses an oppurtunity for those academically challenged to get an educated. Stfu

You even know the schedule of a college athlete?? They literally domy habe time to work and afford to live

good one

they don't bring in any money nice one

In undergrad students are learning the trade, buying the foundational skills, by postgraduate it's the University that's buying the skills of the students, so yes, by then the "students" do get paid! Plus, NCAA coaches are "teaching" the players as much as NBA coaches to their major league players. The players are washing their coaches and school with millions of profit but get not a cent from their own performance on the field? What sort of sick twisted slave driver are you?

They aren't risking their own bodies while they're studying

If the undergrads and graduate scientists are doing anything that earns the school money then YES. But in most cases they don't so there is no money to pay them.

I would agree if the courses they take weren't paper classes for worthless degrees and they didn't drop the scholarships once the athletes get injured.

+i0rpheus not in football and that's all what people care about in the USA