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College athletes - should they be paid to play?

Series: Sound off, Odessa | Story 13

Do college athletes deserve to be paid? ESPN reporter Michael Wilbon used to argue against it, thinking that tuition, room, board and books were compensation enough. And even if it wasn’t enough, the idea of pay-for-play would at best be considered a logistical nightmare. “Where would the money come from? How could you pay college football players but not baseball players or members of the women’s field hockey team? And how in the world would you pay men in a way that wouldn’t violate Title IX?"

So what changed his mind? That $10.8 billion deal between the NCAA and CBS/Turner Sports for March...

 

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