Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The NCAA (HBO)

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Pay the athletes. A vast majority of them are there to play football or basketball and make money for the school. I don't see any reason not to pay them.

The NCAA will probably cave soon within a few years and resort to paying their athletes eventually. They're making billions of dollars between football and basketball and yet none of the athletes are legally entitled to any of it.

I don't see how they wouldn't end up paying the athletes eventually.

They won't cave as long as the schools keep pressuring them to leave it status quo. Which they will. The schools (and the NCAA) have the upper hand. There's enough athletes vying to play college sports, athletic money or not, that no school has to change, even the smaller ones with small programs and no TV money.