Topic: Whether or not college football players should be paid.
Your take: Hell yeah they should.
• The NCAA makes about $7.5 billion per year off of college football.
• This year NCAA.com stopped selling player jerseys when it was revealed that the site was pushing jerseys of specific high-profile players — who, naturally, were receiving none of the money made on sales of their jerseys.
• Coaches get paid. Often, football coaches are the highest-paid public employees in the entire state in which their college is. Rich Rodriguez earns roughly $2.25 million a year coaching at Arizona. His players earn nothing but a University of Arizona education, which is worth roughly … $2.25 million less than Rodriguez’s salary.
