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Today’s question: Should the NCAA allow college athletes to get paid while they are in school?<\/p>\n

Not even close. No … as in “hell no!”<\/p>\n

The Beaumont Enterprise, where I used to work as editorial page editor, has this interesting feature in which it poses a question and then offers competing points of view. This week, the paper addressed the issue of paying college athletes.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.beaumontenterprise.com\/opinions\/editorials\/article\/PRO-CON-VIEW-Should-college-sports-let-athletes-4721405.php<\/p>\n

I’m an old-fashioned guy when it comes to sports. Heck, I don’t even like the designated hitter rule, artificial turf, domed stadiums, or all the commercial signage pro golfers and race car drivers have to wear.<\/p>\n

Thus, I believe college athletes have no compelling need to actually get paid for playing football and basketball, the two money-making sports for virtually all colleges and universities in America.<\/p>\n

The question comes up in the wake of the Johnny “Football” Manziel matter involving whether he got paid for signing autographs while playing Heisman Trophy-winning football for Texas A&M University.<\/p>\n

My take on it is this: Manziel already is getting paid by virtue of his receiving a fully funded college education. He, along with all blue-chip athletes, go to college with all their schoolwork paid for by scholarships, funded usually by huge endowments paid by big-time contributors. Texas A&M is among the richest universities on the planet, endowment-wise.<\/p>\n

I prefer to see these young athletes also perform as students in the classroom, without the perk of capitalizing on their athletic skills through payoffs handed to them under the table. <\/p>\n

I cannot predict what the NCAA will rule in the Manziel case. From my perch, it doesn’t look good for Johnny Football.<\/p>\n

As for paying college athletes? A free college education is payment enough.<\/p>\n\n

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