Coaches try to get players who they think have the talent to make them win and to persuade them to come to their school and from this they dangle a carrot called a scholarship. So the whole idea behind a scholarship is to lure a student to come to your school. Scholarships are just a recruitment tactic. Don’t confuse what I am saying, I don’t think college players should be making millions of dollars, but there should be a set wage for all players no matter if they make the highlights everyday or ride the pine. Every player of a college sport puts in countless man-hours of work to their sport instead of going out and getting a job they have to devote all their time to this. So ask yourself, how did Louisville decide that coach Rick Pitino is going to be worth the amount they paid him? In addition, since this is amateur sports right?

"It's like a job. We get up early, work out, meetings, class and practice," Ron Brace said. "We're giving up a big chunk of our life. I see no reason we shouldn't be paid."Ron Pace played football for Boston College.

Now the other side of the coin is should players have the right to their likenesses? If you go to a bookstore in Utah you would probably find a Jimmer Fredette jersey for sale for about one-hundred-and-fifty dollars. Now even though it has his name on it and his number NONE of the money that was used to purchase the jersey will ever see Fredette's pockets. That money usually goes to many departments including the Dean of the School, but none of the money goes to the athletic department. Ironic huh? Not to mention players likeness appearing in electronic format such as video games.

In January 2008, the NCAA settled an antitrust lawsuit filed by four former student-athletes and agreed to set aside $218 million through 2011-12 to help the more than 150,000 Division I athletes in all sports pay for basic expenses not covered by their athletic scholarships. Plus it makes no sense for an athlete to be worth thousands of dollars to a school and his family is about to be evicted from their apartment.

The NCAA has banned college players from receiving extra benefits from ANYBODY.

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Recently, the NCAA has begun to re-think their decision on this subject with players and college getting caught all the time for giving and receiving extra benefits. Thus,  the NCAA are starting to think about reforming their laws especially based on OHIO STATE's current issue. It is detrimental to both the school’s name and the player’s for being caught for extra benefit scandals. Some people say that there is too much under the table payment going on to enforce anyways. If the athletes got what they deserved and got paid to play, this would not be an issue. Paying athletes to play should be legal, they put too much time into it not to get paid. So while the coaches get paid more than the President of the United States, does players sit back and have to be content with the sweat off their back as payment. Think about it, without the players, coaches would not get paid as much as they do - nobody goes to see a college game to see the coach in action, they go to see the players. Nobody turns on the television to see how well the coach will react in a game - they watch it to see their team, their players in action. So there is much conflict in the world of college sports about where the money should go.

Should it all go to the schools and coaches? Or should the players that make the games possible, and make the coaches salaries, get a cut of the revenue also? This is a question that will go unanswered until somebody let's go of the old, traditional thinking, and take a stand against the corrupt underbelly of college sports.

So to answer the question of whether or not a player should be paid or not? In my opinion, ABSOLUTELY!!! So never mind the game-winning shot... the game winning touchdown... it's time for some new tradition! It's time to pay these athletes and acknowledge what everyone knows to be true - that major college sports is nothing more than minor league pro sports?