Bob Verdi makes a specious argument for payment of college athletes. Which college athletic departments are rich? How can he ignore the fact that any profits from revenue sports, football and basketball, are used to pay for the non-revenue sports? Most athletic departments do not have a surplus and many operate in the red. So where will the funds come from to pay the players?
The remuneration to the athletes is their scholarship, which is a considerable amount these days.
The intercollegiate sports sewer that he refers to can easily be reformed by each school having the same admission standards that they do for the general student body. That would eliminate the athletes who shouldn’t be there in the first place.
The most talented could still go to the pros via a farm system set up by the NBA and NFL. Now that would be reform!
