Over many years athletes have been paid for play. In Ronald A. Smiths book "pay for play: A history of big-time college athletic reform" published in 2010 wrote over 150 years of college athlete pay, problems, Documentation, Court dates, Passes, everything you can imagine. Ronald even wrote that in 1855 the coaches frequently commanded higher salaries than university presidents! University make the most money due to compensation, going further into research as of December 16, 2013 the median salary was 410,000 and the highest paid president was 3,358,723 dollars. Years back you can imagine that if approximately a university president was getting paid 150,000 dollars a athlete was getting paid 178,000 for football and 375,000 for college basketball a year. For the time they cut into trying to achieve there goals, the work spent studying before and the requirements needed, yes, i believe college athletes should be paid more than someone who gets paid compensation. Being legally hurt and someone else getting your money should never happen. Pay the athletes or don't pay the university presidents.