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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 1757115, member: 285"]
The thing no one ever brings up is that there are 347(?) Division I college basketball programs offering scholarships.   The great majority of those schools do not make the money that is being discussed as a reason for paying kids in addition to providing them a scholarship.    Should those kids only get 1/2 scholarships because their efforts don't make enough money for their schools?    Are the kids at Delaware State (pick your school) who are on scholarship being taken advantage of, maybe they are taking advantage of a system that pushes the schools they attend to field a team and put kids on scholarship to play on that team?

The solution that Hoos mentions that Bilas has proposed is the only way to go down this road in my view.   Create two divisions.   The professional division and the amateur division.    Kids in the professional division don't attend classes and don't receive a scholarship, they play for pay.    Schools have a strict salary cap and can allocate the dollars among their rostered players anyway they want.   But at that point its no longer college basketball, its now weak professional basketball.
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