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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5438417, member: 722"] I agree, a better comparison would be athletes to movie stars. Or, of course, to professionals in the same sport. Nobody blinks an eye at the Max contracts players get in the NBA. The NCAA makes almost as much money on basketball as the NBA. Yet people are astonished at the top players making $6 million for a season now that there is a free market? The thing that stinks is that the NCAA and the schools are still pocketing all the actual revenue, and fans are picking up the bulk of the players salaries. I guess it was coming from us one way or the other, but it seems much more honest the way the pro leagues do it. We pay to watch the players, they get some of the money. In college, we pay to watch the players play, all the money goes to the school or the NCAA, then we also donate to pay the players. The law suit settlement is a step closer to the way it eventually will need to be. [/QUOTE]