Why College Football Should Be Paid

College football should think about the rules of the NCAA another way. The NFL makes football players wait three years after graduating high school before entering the draft (Bayless). With such a tight hold on players from the NCAA, means no income for players in that time frame. Outside of room, board, and tuition players should be able to receive payment of some sort. Scholarships looks really great to the outside eye, but scholarships in the market today isn’t worth the same as it was in past decades. Players coming out of high school should be an open market not held to limitations. If the school cannot or will not spend the money to get the athletes, then allow the school’s boosters to pick up the bill. Division 1 football players should be compensated because of the amount of money they bring into the program cannot be received, amount of time that is put into the sport cannot be given back, and the way they benefit the school in so many ways is astonishing.
They are millionaires that have the money and are willing to spend it to get the best player (Bayless). The NCAA should allow them to bid on the whoever, whatever they want they want to. So if it is a brand new car or 100,000 dollars then so be it. The players that make millions for their respective schools and billions for the NCAA should not be restricted to a scholarship (Bayless). Colleges have around 25 scholarships to give out (Bayless). If the boosters buy out 10 of those players, then that leaves 10 scholarships to be spread out through the other 30 players without any scholarships. So this can benefit the walk ons that did not receive anything before, now can get money from the school. People may say that it is unfair for one player to be paid and another not, but is it fair that a boss gets paid more than their assistant. It is the American way, people are paid for their worth everybody is not