Quote:Absolutely no reason not to pay college athletes in football/basketball. The rest of America gets rich off their unpaid labor but hey thats America for you.


I saw a poll on some well respected news site the other day, forgot where. that white people favored not paying players 75:25 and minorities favored paying them 55:45 or something very similar. Not surprising results at all, but something interesting to think about.

This is not a race issue. Please stop.


It isnt unpaid labor. One of the main arguments from NW was that they are already being paid. They just want more, which they may or may not get based on the University's books.


If they open NW books for their football program and see a loss, then what? If they see like a 500,000 gain, ok. Divide that by 100 players and you have 5000 per player... wow. Lets be extremely generous and say they netted 5 million. That is 50000 per player which is exactly what they are already paid.


Its not a race issue. Its about thinking it through.

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