Should We Pay College Athletes?!? Here's My Take.

Alright, I want to weigh in on a topic that's really hot right now and that is paying college athletes. And I would love to have my connections here on LinkedIn that our former college athletes weigh in as well. Should we pay college athletes? I'm going to give you the counterpoint that probably a lot of you are going to disagree with. I played Division 1 baseball, not at a big school. I was given 10 to $15 a day stipend for food when we were on the road. I was not allowed to work over a certain number of hours to make money because I was an athlete at the school. Yet for some Division 1 athletes, the school profits millions of dollars off of that one athlete's name, number and performance. Think about the business side of this. Shouldn't you get paid based on the value you bring to your organization? In this case, the college you're playing for? So I would love to have some of my connections from LinkedIn who are former college athletes weigh in here. I know you think we can't get rid of the amateur status and that's wrong. But think about the business lesson here. Shouldn't you get paid for the value you bring? Is it fair that a school profits millions of dollars off you because of your performance, because of your name, yet you have to remain an amateur because that's just the right thing to do? Weigh in. I'm curious to know because this is a hot topic. I can go either way. But I did want to give you the business lesson on why it might not be a bad idea to pay athletes. And let's face it, guys, we're only legalizing a practice that's already going on at most Division 1 schools. So we envelope.