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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 2159895, member: 3609"]
Yes, there's a lot of money in the collegiate sports system, but ...

It's not the money from the CBS contract for the D-1 basketball championship and a lot of people point to that contract specifically as a reason why the NCAA is rolling in cash and players should be paid.

There has always been a lot of legitimate and illegitimate money from donors going into athletics.  I'm not versed enough in economics to say, for example, what Ben Schwarzwalder's (sp) contract would be worth in 2016 dollars to compare it to Dino Babers' or to compare the donations of Sugar Daddies from then to now.  It wouldn't surprise me in the least if either salaries or donations or both have increased in real terms.  A good part of the extra money comes from the change in the structure of the TV contracts for football and regular season bball of then to now.  Regardless, Schwarzwalder and Babers got/get a heckUVa lot more money than their players got/get.  The demographic changes in the teams is the elephant sitting in the corner everyone chooses to ignore.

Does paying the players become the "last straw" that makes the academics change everything to the D-3 model? I don't think it's news to anyone that the resentment is there.  When does (not "could") it go beyond the complaints of just one bearded professor here and there?
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