[MinorityRepublican]

If you have a million dollar arm, and the University only gives you $50,000, are you compensated fairly? There’s going to be a case soon and players are going to win. The last time I checked, this country doesn’t support cartels. NCAA is one big cartel that controls their players.

[Red in Blue PA]

Huh?

If they have a “million dollar arm”, let them try to make it in the NFL. There is no “right” to get paid to play sports That is ludicrous.

[BwanaNdege]

Without college football, the NFL would never know about your “million dollar arm”.

Without college football, these players would have neither the knowledge nor the skills to be worth their exorbitant signing bonuses.

Why not have the colleges pay their players at, say $30/hr but the players pay their tuition, books & fees and other expenses?

Or the college pay for tuition, books, fees, room & board against 10% of the players earning for the five years after graduation?

Willing buyer, willing seller?

This whole “pay the athletes” movement is being pushed by ‘community organizers’, ‘social justice warriors’, salivating ‘agents’ and ‘journalists’ looking for easy stories.

Folks wanting to be airline pilots spend a ton of money getting their ratings. Then they get hired by regional airlines for a pittance while they build enough flight time to get the ATP rating needed to qualify for the major airlines. These “poor, exploited” football players have none of those worries or debts.

[driftless2]

Very few qbs coming out of high school could make it in the pros. It takes several years at least for most of them to become pro level talents. If they think they can get the money, they can always forego college and try out for the pros.

I don't know if the pros have a restriction (age) clause that forces young adults to wait, but nobody is forcing them to go to college. They get a good training in college. It works both ways.