Majoring in Sports: A Case to Pay the Players

Posted by Danny Flynn on February-27-2010 Add Comments

In today’s big time college athletics, there seems to be a thin, blurry line between what’s right and wrong, between what’s accepted and what’s frowned upon.

With all the money flowing into big time sports programs these days it has created a dangerous culture. There is a win-first attitude where athletics takes precedence over academics for these “student” athletes.

So I simply want to ask why have all the clout and the double standards? Why not simply let these players sign contracts with a school and treat the sport they play as their jobs?

It would save us all the trouble of dancing around this notion of what a “student athlete...

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