If the players are earning billions then they should be getting paid. There’s never been any problem with coaches getting multi-million dollar paychecks so why not pay the players?
Yeah, but the $NCAA$ and $colleges$ would want to continue to reap the same profits as before. Therefore ticket prices and advertising costs will have to climb significantly.
But, ho-hum, not my problem.
By the time you line this idea up....how do you handle a team of 50-odd football players (ages 18 to 21), and suggesting that five players will be getting $60k for a season, while 15 of the least will get no more than $18k for the season?
The soccer players getting a equal chunk of what football players get? Volleyball players getting equal of what basketball players get?
I see this generating a lot of turmoil for three years, and players start refusing to play unless their pay is increased. Go explain strikes around a NCAA campus.
—”There’s never been any problem with coaches getting multi-million dollar paychecks so why not pay the players?”
Only AFTER a full accounting of the costs, including permanent injuries. A football player I knew had lost ALL of his teeth before he finished college and had numerous ugly scars from repair surgery...
And clearly the players, coaches, trainers... need a FULL SERVICE UNION!