... athletes will stay in school and get a diploma so they have something to fall back on if the professional league doesn't workout the way they were hoping it would. The final reason college athletes should be paid for playing their sport in college is because of all the money receives though what these athletes do. The eight college football teams that ... made it to a BCS bowl game made on average 2.2 million dollars for there athletic programs (www.espn.go.com/abcsports/bcs/). Most major college football teams sell about 70,000 tickets at 25 dollars each. That ... comes to 1.75million...

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We see college sporting events on television and hear about college games on the radio; we even read about them in the newspaper. Whether it's a scrimmage or the last game in the Final Four college basketball series, you should be aware that those athletes aren't receiving a single dime from the college they attend. No form of compensation is being handed out to those ... ...

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