Should division 1 college football and basketball players be paid

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7. Isn't getting a free education enough?

Oh that's right, a significant number of them don't finish or aren't actually qualified to even start on a college degree.

Personally I would do away with big time athletics. But then again during my time at the University of Colorado they had a minor little issue with multiple rape allegations, bribing recruits with hookers, the head coach Gary Barnett in responding to a rape allegation made by a (female) kicker on the team by saying that "she was not only a girl, but she was terrible" and the university president Betsy Hoffman testifying that maybe when the football team was referring to the kicker as a four letter vulgarity they meant it as a term of endearment like in Chaucer. And the football coach was only fired after his team got embarrassed on the field 70-3. And for that, he was given a 3 million dollar buyout. Nice work if you can get it I suppose.

I don't object to smaller sports, where the balance is such that the student part of student athlete comes first. But get rid of the money and the bullshit first.