[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

This is not pro football, this is for most of them just kids trying to get a hard fought education.

College football is the farm system for professional football. The players should get paid. And not with a worthless piece of paper.

[LowOiL]

College football is the farm system for professional football. The players should get paid. And not with a worthless piece of paper.

Opens too many cans of worms.. Only a select few colleges actually profit from sports. Can colleges competitively bid on players? Should you pay other sports players as well, if not, why not? Nope, hope it never happens.

[JohnBrowdie]

first of all, a college diploma is not, I repeat, NOT, a “worthless piece of paper”. that may be the dumbest thing that I have ever read on the Internet. EVER.

what do you think you would be accomplishing by paying student athletes to play football? do you have a reason? What problem are you fixing?

[LowOiL]

Perhaps you are onto something. Perhaps it is time for the NFL to just make it’s own minors leagues.

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