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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 248642, member: 1969"]
If you work for a very successful company, which the owners make ridiculous amounts of money from, should you be entitled to more pay? You could leave .. and you will find the market for your services is no hihger... in fact it could well be less. But hey, you are now making a "fairer" share of the pie now. Are you any better off?
 
Its the same with college players. The other options of a minor league are not appealing at all. Your lifestyle is worse, your living more day to day, travelling more, eating like , and have crappier training facilities. But hey the owners make a whole lot less. so its "fair". But are you any better off?
 
Like the owners of a successful company, the universities / NCAA created the successful brand. People say its the players that make the money, but put the same SU players in a minor league game in Bakersfield and hardly nobody cares. Its not the back of the jersey that is making the money, its the brand that was created by the front of the jersey.
 
Stop whining, nobody is forcing you to play in the NCAA. Its a free market, try it out. See if its any better.
 
Instead of focusing on paying athletes the NCAA should focus on basic decency concepts to ensure they are treated fairly:
a) If a coach leaves, you can leave without the trasnfer
b) A new coach or any coach, can't take away your scholarship for purely basketball reasons.
c) Protection for injuries.
 
There is many more.   But this is what should be focused on, not if the stars should be paid.
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