Quote Originally Posted by Paakaa10 View Post
The inherent flaw in how NCAA athletes are treated is that there is this archaic view of them being "unpaid amateurs;" I'm sorry, but once you get a full-ride scholarship to go to a school--in my opinion--you have been paid.

As somebody with a crapload of student loan debt from getting two degrees, I would rather that scholarship money be kept aside for students who legitimately wish to get educated and earn degrees instead of paying athletes to attend schools and do barely enough in the classroom to stay on the football field and eventually make millions of dollars per year in the NFL.

EDIT
Forget where I saw/heard this, but there was a sports commentator calling for the NFL to change their practice of listing where a player comes from, school-wise. Something like 60-70% of NFL players never followed through and earned degrees from their schools, yet still get listed as coming from that school in official NFL materials and in telecasts. Maybe the "shame" of being listed as only getting a high school diploma for these players who used college as a means to make the NFL would convince them to stick around and make the educational process matter.
It's a sound idea in theory but I don't think many of the felons int he National Felons League care. In fact, I'm pretty sure that you will see a guy or two on MNF say they are from some high school or some Fictional place when they say their "school". Unfortunately, the problem here is really a societal one. Far too often we praise and even borderline worship people who are nothing more than a thug with a God given althetic/physical ability.