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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 3127059, member: 652"]
There is nothing wrong with it per se. The problem is Title IX. Paying football and basketball players that amount of money wouldn't be an issue.
You can't as a nonprofit institution which all colleges are violate the equal protection clause and pay male football and basketball players but not pay male soccer players, female field hockey players, male and female tennis players, and track field athletes.

Schools turn massive profits from football and basketball teams that subsidize the other programs which don't turn profits. If you give one sport a stipend and not the other sports that violates the law. What would happen is schools would cut nonrevenue athletics and keep the minimum that keep them in compliance with Title IX.

Plus eventually the stipend would lead to unions forming and athletes from these sports getting a stipend demand a collective bargaining agreement and more of the pie.

The stipend idea works in theory but it kills college athletics more.

I mean the issue right now is college football and men's college basketball. These athletes are getting a chance to make some money off their likeness and schools don't have to pay them still.
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