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Damn_Underscore posted...

If schools paid the athletes as well, should everyone on the water polo team make the same as everyone on the football team? Should the quarterback make more than everyone else on the football team? Should there be bidding wars to decide which school gets the best recruits?

It should be handled like all fucking other aspects of business are handled, according to the base tenets of capitalism, and that is you're paid based on the value you bring into a school. Why does it have to be equal at all? That's nonsense. Yes, the starting QB for a major program, especially when being a major name and attraction, will get more than a different player. And there's already "bidding wars" that happen, it's just dirty money and other services that isn't tracked that's happening.

Of course if we just allowed all athletes eligible for professional leagues at the age of 18, and let's be real, specifically the revenue producers in football and basketball, then we could avoid this bullshit as well. If players aren't physically ready then it's on the pro teams not to play them but develop them in their system, but getting paid for their worth. But that won't happen because there's too many rich assholes who can sit back and profit off of college football and basketball while sitting back and pretending "oh they are student athletes and amateurs, they don't deserve to be paid for their hard work and sacrifice".

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