Paying athletes would be totally against what the collegiate ranks are all about. Amateurism is what sets college apart from the pros. To pay them is to totally obliterate that distinction and is contrary to the spirit of collegiate athletics. According to the Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, Jim Delaney, “revenues derived from intercollegiate athletics should be expended in support of the broadest array of men’s and women’s educational and athletic opportunities. Thus, revenues are earned in private -sector activity and spent with the confines of the university for appropriate educational purposes” (12). With paying players there would no longer be educational institutions, but major or minor league professional environments. There is a very small percentage of college athletes who play professionally, so colleges should not be regarded by cynics as the farm systems for the NFL or NBA (dickey 2). The point is we’ve gotten away from what collegiate sports is all about. It is not minor leagues or places for athletes to make money playing a game, but it is about passion and love for something that later may enrich them.

Along with the value of a collegiate education being downplayed as insignificant, most of the sports that the NCAA operates do not produce substantial revenue for their schools. Football and men’s basketball are the exceptions. The money that schools take in from these sports is usuall

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