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Yea, they go through so much just for the slightest opportunity to make it to the pros.
Technically they are paid in kind (transfer payments for scholarships cost real money), before one even includes boosters, agents, and alumni actually distributing money and favors. One thing they could do is say that if you give someone a scholarship for athletics that scholarship is open until they graduate, not when they just leave school to go pro. Schools would have more incentives to recruit people who might stay and complete their degrees on college time as it were.
And then let the actual or immediate pro athletes go pro and get paid. Another option is to have a more extensive minor league system the way baseball has with some people going into college and some going pro straight out of high school. Basketball and football do not have any serious development programs like this outside of college athletic programs. Of course, at this point they have no major incentive to try either.
No. Their scholarships plus all the bonuses they receive off the field/court/etc is more than enough.
they already do in scholarships.
I agree with Jeremy.
College athletic scholarships are the golden dragon as far as high school athletes are concerned.
Considering the cost of attending a good college and graduating is somewhere in the stratosphere in today's money, athletic scholarships are enough of a paycheck.
FYI – less than 10% of all college athletes make it to the pros.
Just my not-so-humble opinion.
Papadawg & Jeremy,
EA sports is a 4 billion dollar industry! Now is it fair that there are individuals out there make millions off of these athletes' "likeness"? 90% of which will not play professional at all and have no hopes of making money off their athletic skills. The schools like OU, USC, and Texas, make millions of dollars off from BSC bowls….
And Intercollegiate student athletes do not receive bonuses. Extra benefits are illegal by the NCAA and they would lose eligibility for that. Now some cases my actually slip under by, Reggie Bush and his family, but that's what we're proposing here. Should they be paid?