If Pryor entered the supplemental draft would you pick him.

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Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

Actually it is. They can make all this money off of me and I can't even get a little of it? If people wanna pay me for my signature or wanna pay me to come to their school over another school then who the f**k are you to tell me I can't?

I understand the big schools making money without having to pay the athletes. However in the case of college football you only have 57% of schools turning a profit off football. Furthermore only 12% of all collegiate athletic programs are in fact profitable. So if you start paying football players you've opened the floodgates for every other sport the overwhelming majority of which are not profitable.

This would lead to programs cutting out sports all together and kids not getting a chance to earn a scholarship because a scholarship isn't good enough for a bunch of primma donnas that don't want to wait for the NFL or NBA.

Granted something should be done to further help the kids that come from poor backgrounds, however I can't support paying colleigate athletes across the board as it simply sets a terrible precedent. Trust me, anyone thats gotten the bill for a college education knows it's not free. These kids aren't walking away empty handed, except for the ones that would rather party then go to class.