Quote Originally Posted by QuadrupleOption View Post
If you pay football players you have to pay everyone else in sports that lose money for the school.

This will make scholarship sports too expensive for most schools not in the P5 to maintain, and would probably end up destroying college athletics.

It would be better to force the NFL to allow players to be drafted out of high school and sent to a development league. At least you'd clear out some of the BS surrounding recruiting, and level the playing field a bit more for everyone else.
That's why you let them make money on their own, but don't have any school sanctioned payments or inducements for football players. Let women's basketball players go on eBay and sell their autographs too if they want to.