College athletes won't be getting paid...

The good ones are still getting paid

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They need an allowance like any kid. They need about $40.00 a week for late night/weekend pizzas or burgers or dates. When my son played college football and lived in the dorm, 90% of the freshmen had no money, none. They could not even buy a pizza. The players had good food in the school cafeteria,but, it was early, like 5:30 to 6:30/7:00 0r so. It creates temptation for boys to take money from boosters. An allowance is needed.

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This is correct. My son is currently playing D1 golf and the athletes are constantly hungry. They use so much energy, they can't function properly if their last meal is at 7:00 p.m. I make sure he has money, I tell him all the time if the other guys on the golf team can't afford it, order a couple of pizza's and share. $40-$50 a week in their pocket would make a huge difference.

They need to have the same meal plan as all other students. They can easily go to the take 5 until 3 in the morning and get food from there.

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the athletes are constantly hungry.

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Here we go again

I never saw how it would ever happen under Title IX alone.

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"The difference between offering student-athletes education-related compensation and offering them cash sums untethered to educational expenses is not minor; it is a quantum leap," Judge Jay Bybee wrote. "Once that line is crossed, we see no basis for returning to a rule of amateurism and no defined stopping point."

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This is exactly what concerns me whenever paying college athletes comes up.

If college athletes are paid like this, why shouldn't high school athletes get paid? The school is making money off of ticket sales, t-shirts, concessions, etc. based on my performance. And I'm risking my livelihood. What if I sustain a career-ending injury and lose my shot at a collegiate scholarship? Where's my cut?

Sure, it's a completely different stratosphere in terms of dollars involved, but there's no logical difference.

Amateurism has to end at some clearly-defined point.

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I never saw how it would ever happen under Title IX alone.

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Pay the women, too. If you put a cost of attendence in every scholarship, regardless of gender, you're likely looking at about 500 full scholarships paying up to, what, $5000/student? That's $2,500,000. Boom. Title IX compliant. This isn't rocket science.

And the NCAA won short term, but lost longterm. This is a bad decision for them, as its precedent for the cases coming up the pike, which certainly will have a different damage model, which is all that was thrown out. The antitrust protections, the important part, cut against the NCAA.

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It creates temptation for boys to take money from boosters. An allowance is needed.

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So you think a kid getting $40 bucks for pizza will stop him from accepting a $500 handshake? Sounds legit.

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as previously thought. Keeps everyone on the same playing field. Bama kids were gonna be able to get close to $1,500 more than athletes that chose to go to LSU. link=(LINK ]

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You don't read very well, do you?

This article is about collegiate players being paid money for their likeness.

It states in the second paragraph that this article deals with athletes being paid - 'beyond cost of attendance'