The full boat scholarship is not worth that much—the students are given easy passes and learn little that will help them in later life.
Time to end the farce and make them professionals.
“The full boat scholarship is not worth that much—”
It can cost $200,000 or more to attend a 4 yr top ranked college. Even if the school passes the Football player for doing nothing it is still worth $200,000 to get in the door without a scholarship.
“Time to end the farce and make them professionals.”
I don’t watch professional sports now but am fully engaged in college sports, especially those smaller schools which upset the historically great schools. Most NCAA teams are not high dollar schools. If they must play players, or recruit for players against colleges that do pay, it will end varsity sports in hundreds of schools. They will not be able to handle the additional costs of salaries. And that is just not right. Few schools provide crip courses for players. Or as UNC basketball did, they could just sign the class roster and leave. That is criminal (fraud) and just does not go on elsewhere.
Basketball is a problem that needs fixing, but paying them is not the fix. They play too many games, two or sometimes three games a week is too many. Either rearrange the season to coincide with the semester and have the players drop out of classes for the semester, or limit the season to one game a week, on a Saturday. I know your reply will be “never happen.” And I agree, but the point is making them professional is not the answer.
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Nevertheless goodbye NCAA. It was born out of cheating institutions hiring pro-athletes. Back to the future.