The thing everyone is missing here is Title IX. The revenue sports are subsidizing the non revenue sports. If you pay the guys who are earning a profit, you have to pay the gals who aren't. That is unsustainable.

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My thoughts:

1. I'm against Title IX. If there isn't a demand for a sport, then schools shouldn't be forced to carry it just so they can field teams in an sport where there is a demand.

2. I'm generally against paying players. However, I'm OK with paying for/providing tuition, books, food (even in a special dining hall that serves special food, so long as it is within reason), housing (even if it is specially-designated athletic housing, so long as it is reasonably comperable to standard student housing), medical expenses at a university hospital or closeby hospital for reasonable medical expenses (i.e. no plastic surgery unless it is reconstructive), and lifetime catastrophic insurance for major injuries (i.e. medical complications that arise later in life but are linked to concussions from the athlete's college football days). I am also OK with players working for the university so long as they are not given any special job-related consideration/treatment in the hiring process, while on the job, or during/after termination. However, I do not believe in giving players extra spending money. Nobody is making the players come to school. If they need to support their family and can't do that while they are in school, then they simply shouldn't go to school at that point in their life. The same is true for everyone else in the world, and there's no reason why athletes are different. In fact, the benefits that I'm OK with are MUCH more than most students get, including the very poor ones.

I'm against Title IX as well. I particularly love how Title IX doesn't consider competitive cheerleading a sport. You know ... cheerleading ... the collegiate sport most likely to result in a devastating injury. But don't necessarily count on college football grade medical care thanks to Title IX classifying it as a non-sport. Why is it not a sport? I sh*t you not -- because the uber feminist liberals who wrote it considered cheerleading beneath them. I'm awash in a sea of their bigoted irony.