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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 3159110, member: 652"]
If you think college football and college basketball are amateur athletes you are turning a blind to facts.
TV dollars off the hook, tickets aren't cheap. Texas A&M raised 500 million dollars in donations from the football season Johnny Manziel won the Heisman trophy,

These players AREN'T amateurs. The are cashcows for schools and if they can make money off their likeness they should.
Why should ESPN/ABC/CBS/FOX be able to promo games with players with their likeness and the kids can't get paid for that. The game is about players.

The rowing/swimming/diving/field hockey/golf teams are getting their scholarships paid for by football/basketball money.
Don't make it like P5 schools are only breaking even. Big Ten teams are getting 50 million dollars a YEAR in just TV money.
These ADs are swimming in profits. Bean counters can always cook the books. Schools/NCAA don't want change because the current status quo is good for them. Players being to able to profit on their own likeness takes away power from them. That is all they care about.
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