Quote Originally Posted by amat View Post
I like all sports, it's youngblood who likes college football better then the NFL. Go to the south though and they make a huge deal out of high school football too, just the way it is. I like it though, college football is it's own brand of awesome.

They gave Reggie Bush's parents a house, or something like that I don't know I just know he was getting hooked up fat going to college which is a no-no. NCAA football players should be paid. Just like any other on campus job you get, even the student assistants to the team get paid enough to get by but these guys generating bajillions for the schools don't. Not fair imo.

There had to be more though, I mean Joe McKnight was rolling around in luxury cars too so I really doubt it was only Bush.
It seems logical to me that they should get paid, considering the amount of time they must have to dedicate to the sport. Though I suppose getting to bang almost anyone you wanted at a school of 40,000 people would be payment enough for some. Couldn't all colleges just agree to some kind of flat salary for all football athletes or something, wouldn't that eliminate any sort of prospective recruiting inequities (which I assume is the reason they don't get paid)?