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[QUOTE="mscanlo, post: 4570722, member: 830"]
"we spend $4M to scour the US to find [B]the best [/B]people willing to play" --- kidding
 
two thoughts to came to mind just now... probably a little weak:

I believe less than 20 athletic programs are currently profitable, so how can you force all of schools to pay their athletes?

in regards to amateurism:

i believe the little league organization made $50M in revenue last year, and their TV contract with ESPN appears to continue to grow. Do we want to pay kids 12 and under?

Little League has invested in facilities (like college programs do) and "gives back to programs" (like money goes back to schools, from athletic programs that have large profits). it's just not on the scale of college athletics, so no one bats an eye.

What is the Scripps National Spelling Bee turns into a Billion dollar business one day? What do we do we do? Force Scripps to pay the participants who willingly participate? (that one might not apply as i dont know if you need to be an amateur to participate in the Scripps Spelling Bee)

what's the threshold an organization has to hit (whether in revenue or some other metric) before they have to pay the people that they generate revenue off of?
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