CFB deserve pay for play

[J.T.supporta]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/s ... d=tab6pos1

[covok48]

Uh they already get paid in terms of a free (and otherwise very expensive) education that some players don't bother to finish.

And the reason CFB is highly entertaining is because the incintives players have because we don't pay them outright. A) School pride/glory for players not good enough for the NFL and B) The possibility of lucrative paychecks for those talented enough to go to the next level. Thus, this keeps play at a very high and competative level.

Save the over-the-table paychecks for the NFL and the players who earn them because last time I checked, there are more than 450 or so althletes (who get drafted) in the college ranks and they're already increasing their future earnings potential.

[MustangStealth]

The people who keep bringing this up ignore one huge factor.

Title IX would extend to any benefits given to the players. For every football player SMU gives $500 a month to, we would have to also give $500 a month to an equestrianess (don't know the word, so I'm making it up) or a rower or a runner, etc. You can say goodbye to football and entire athletic departments along with it at every D-IA non-BCS program and probably 1/3 of the BCS ones. SMU, Baylor, Rice, etc. don't sell enough football tickets to cover those additional costs, so what we would be left with is the programs that do sell 75K tickets per game and make bowl games every year.

[EastStang]

This would create even more inequity with the State schools and the private schools. Schools like SMU, Rice, Tulane, Vanderbilt, Wake, Duke, Baylor, TCU, Miami, ND, BC, BYU, Northwestern, and Stanford are already subsidizing large tuitions much higher than the in state schools. The Academies have other problems dictated by Federal law and military tradition as to what cadets/midshipmen can receive. Such a program would probably force a number of private schools to drop to 1-AA because it would become cost prohibative for them. I think if such a proposal occurs that the Magnolia League would become a necessity and that you would see some interesting discussions in which even some BCS privates would consider moving to another league. If Miami, BC, Wake and Duke were to threaten to leave the ACC for all sports that would get their attention. I am sure the SEC and BXII wouldn't care if Vandy and Baylor left. Stanford leaving the PAC-10 would be a huge loss for the conference. AFA, BYU and TCU leaving the MWC would filet that conference. There are 17 Division 1-A private schools and 3 academies. That could form two conferences an eastern and western conference. Eastern Conference could be Miami, Wake, Duke, BC, Vanderbilt, ND, Navy, Army. Western could include: Baylor, Rice, SMU, TCU, Tulane, Northwestern, BYU, Stanford and AFA. I wouldn't mind a conference schedule like that.