re: Have to do a speech on why college athletes should NOT get paid.

-it's amateur athletics (supposed to be anyway, that's a separate debate entirely). Getting paid just futher blurs the line between them being true "student athletes" and basically minor league players
-their tuition, books, food, housing, and everything else is already covered. They're walking away from school with probably over $100K in free benefits
-it's a slippery slope to go down. Let's say every player gets X amount of money. Ok...so in a few years what happens when your heisman winning QB complains that he makes as much as the backup punter? Eventually it could lead to price disparity which is just going to be a battle that no real CFB should want
-If the football players are getting paid, every athlete on all mens and womens teams need to get paid as well. So see point above, how do you determine how much the QB makes compared to the backup singles player on the womens tennis team?
-If schools are allowed to come up with their own system, the big money schools are going to further distance themselves from the smaller schools. The playing field will become even more uneven.
-It opens up shady behavior even moreso than it alreayd is. Your big time athletes can buy a brand new car, take pics with a handful of hundreds, buy out the bar eveyr saturday night, etc. When questioned they can simply say "it's my stipend money". Basically these under the table deals will ramp up considerably because now the players actually WOULD have an excuse for how they are spending all this money.


I'm not naive, I realize that hte game today is nothing like it was 30 years ago. But there still should be a line drawn where these 18-21 year olds are supposed to be going to school, going to class, and playing football on the weekends. It shouldn't turn into even more of a farm system.