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In an effort to keep this out of SZ, I'd like to discuss the ramifications of paying student athletes. I have a girl in NCAA athletics and my first take on it is that this would create a segmented market of kids. Those very large group of NCAA kids in non-revenue sports, vs the very small group of kids in revenue producing sports. Not all Div 1 football programs make money(ex; Ball St), and not all Div 1 basketball programs either. N Dakota st has an outstanding men's hockey team, but they no way produce any revenue over expenses to field the team.
I guess I can understand the big money doled out to the big football programs getting to the kids who are out on the field playing. But - I also understand maybe more than others that the NCAA program are for student-athletes. They are compensated for play by getting a scholarship, and living expenses and that is the way the system works, where they subsidize many of the kids who are not in revenue sports, like women's rowing, men's LaCrosse, etc.
So, what do you think? Should the kids who bring in the revenue from college sports get a cut? If so, what happens when a revenue team plays a non-revenue team? Should players have to share their income with the other team? Should they also still fund non-revenue sports? How would it all be allocated and who gets to decide? NCAA, team, school, boosters, etc?
I guess I can understand the big money doled out to the big football programs getting to the kids who are out on the field playing. But - I also understand maybe more than others that the NCAA program are for student-athletes. They are compensated for play by getting a scholarship, and living expenses and that is the way the system works, where they subsidize many of the kids who are not in revenue sports, like women's rowing, men's LaCrosse, etc.
So, what do you think? Should the kids who bring in the revenue from college sports get a cut? If so, what happens when a revenue team plays a non-revenue team? Should players have to share their income with the other team? Should they also still fund non-revenue sports? How would it all be allocated and who gets to decide? NCAA, team, school, boosters, etc?