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[QUOTE="Dave85, post: 1340807, member: 3946"]
People have passionate arguments over whether or not student athletes are actually employees, can form a union, and whether they should be able to get appropriate compensation for contributions to the NCAA's cash flow.   Having students get paid for regular season games may be too controversial.  But what about the NCAA tournament?   The NCAA is going to make a billion dollars in advertising.  Here is what I propose.   For each player on every team invited to the tournament a player receives $10,000 as a freshmen, $20,000 as a sophomore, $30,000 as a junior, and $50,000 bonus payment as a senior.  With 66 teams, 15 players, this would cost around $30 million dollars.  Most of these kids are not going to play in the NBA.  The NCAA tournament bonus may be the most amount of money they will ever make from their basketball careers.  Why should the NCAA pocket a $1000 million dollars and not give each player a small pittance of gratitude for their cash cow.  A $1000 million to $30 million may actually be too little.  We could argue the correct amount but something is better than nothing!

A "student athlete" is just a euphemism for "slave" when the NCAA is making a billion dollars every year in my humble opinion.   Although many people think the 13th Amendment is unconstitutional I think some injustices need to be address because it is morally the right thing to do.
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