Payment of Student Athletes: Legal and Practical Obstacles College Athletics is no longer just a sport, it’s a big business. The National Collegiate Athletics Association has an operating budget of 270 million dollars, and the member schools generate 3 billion in revenues. That is a huge amount of money to be made, and brings up the situation of should college athletes be paid. Athletes on a full scholarship has all of their tuition, books, room and …showed first 75 words of 370 total…

…showed last 75 words of 370 total…institution, so they now become a liability issue. These are some of the issues that the universities, and the NCAA governing body must weigh out, as this idea becomes more popular. At first it sounds like a good deal, but may actually become a cancer and a headache to the governing body and the institutions that represent them. This is a very hot topic, and it will be interesting to see what comes from it.