College athletes ought o be paid because their participation in the sport earns the schools tremenous amounts of money that they gain no financial benefit from. It operates on a premise that although they are of working age, and most college students have jobs, the time that they put in at that working age when one would often have a job, they earn nothing. It is waisted years financially. Additionally, working for free, or perhaps for room and board, is not too dissimilar from a sharecropping model, which is a direct call back to a time in our nations history of racial abuse. The fact that many of the college players are black men makes this comparison all the more stark. Work for free, our predominately white overlords make money off of you, and we will give you a shelter, shacked up with a few hundred others like sardines, called a dorm. This is the 21st century. A worker is worthy of his pay.

The prompt is should college atheletes be paid. The rowing team are college athletes if I am not mistaken. They would also be paid. Point Null. It would be entirely even, though differential in pay likely proportionate to the money the program makes the school. Paid nevertheless.

I only said that it would be proportionate, that is not rolling in the cash. The prompt is not should they be paid A LOT, it is should they be paid. I say yes, propotionate to what the program makes the school.