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

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-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

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Nobody talks about this point and its one of the biggest ones IMO. How do you determine which player gets paid a certain amount? You can't. A Freshman 5 Star QB can come in and have tons of jersey sales and get paid without ever playing a down while a the 5th Year All American OG could potentially not get a dime. Could an athlete sue if he feels the school is not compensating him with the correct proportion of of his value for the team? Could a player have grounds to transfer without sitting out if he thinks another player at his position is getting unjustly paid more? Say goodbye to any kind of team chemistry.

Great points all around though. When people say schools make all of this money off the backs of these athletes, they usually cry about the Manziel types who are the stars. For every one of him, there are a few hundred whoare nameless. So this whole issue is about compensating a handful of players out of several thousand every year.