[jimmyray]

FWIW, my daughter is in a major SEC university marching band. During fall, she report to the campus a week early, gets the privilege of practicing 3 hours every weekday, and is obligated to 4 hours before a home-game, plus the game itself. I get to pay for uniform cleaning and gloves.

For all this effort, She (I) gets a $500 scholarship each semester. Woohoo!

Nevertheless, I consider it a great opportunity for her, as I consider it a great opportunity for the majority of football "scholarship" athletes. If it were not for football, they would have NO opportunity at all! Shame that the majority get worthless degrees, and have no opportunity afterwards.

but, are they robbed? One cannot be robbed of that which they never possessed. The future it intangible.

imagine they glory of saying "I was on the 2015 Alabama NCAA championship team?!?

[Will88]

This entire proposal is just nonsense. It is a dream come true for most families if a son or daughter wins a college scholarship and saves the family part or all of the cost of a college education.

But some people want to look at this issue as if every college football player is a future pro and is helping to make their school millions. Nobody ever explains what is to happen with the big majority of schools that lose money on football and all other sports.

[Will88]

I don't know if this is a definitive report on the profitability of college sports, but I've seen several articles that are in the same range.

Jim Moran says only 20 colleges make a profit from sports

Some very relevant information in a short article. All those who want to pay college athletes need to open their checkbooks and chip in.

In view of the below, I don't see how anyone thinks colleges should pay any athlete beyond the scholarship benefits.

Median revenues generated by athletic departments increased by 3.2 percent from 2012 to 2013, while expenses went up 10.6 percent;

Of the 20 schools that made money, the median profit was $8.4 million;

Of the 103 schools that lost money, the median deficit was $14.9 million;

The highest total revenues generated by an athletic department was $169.7 million;

The highest total expenses by an athletic department was $146.8 million.