be making millions at the college level. Bilas supports the fact that college athletes should be paid because their value is much greater than what colleges portray them as and they deserve much more than a scholarship. Say you were a musician for your college band and you began to make music on the side and you earned money for that music.
Now you wouldn’t be penalized for that in any way, instead you would be celebrated upon. However, this is not the case for college athletes. Instead, no college athlete can be paid or even endorsed in any way by another company. This is absolutely ridiculous due to the fact that it is because of them that these college institutions generate revenue for themselves. Jay explains how if you are a child and the main star for a movie, but you are not going to get paid for doing the show, instead all of your expenses and maybe some accommodations will be given to you. Of course you would not agree to these terms and so far no one ever has because everyone wants to be paid for his or her work. However, this is not how college athletes are being treated, all they earn is a scholarship and that is it. No money on the side can be made, no endorsements from companies, you can not even sell your own
jersey. If the college athletes were signed to a contract plus room, board, and books are covered as well, then they would be set way better off. Not only are they setting themselves up financially, they could also agree to terms where they have to stay at the college for a certain amount of years. This would allow them to earn a college degree with making money from the school. If you compare the amount of money these schools make, and take a slight fraction of that to give to the athletes, they would still be generating a substantial amount. It could possibly generate them more because if you land by signing a star player to possibly a three-year contract, your viewership will stay high because of them. Many football and basketball stars leave after one year of playing college because they want to go to the pros, but also want to earn as much money as they can before they retire. If the college schools would step in and start paying not millions to all players, but an agreeable amount to what that player is worth, in the long run it benefits not just the athlete, but the school itself.