Of 754 sports fans in the survey released Tuesday, only 21 percent said they'd like to see top college athletes paid a stipend or salary beyond their scholarship, while 72 percent believed a scholarship alone was enough compensation.
If, instead, the stipend funds are spread over all full scholarship athletes, the football and basketball players receive less because of the dilution.
If a flutist can receive a full music scholarship from a college that can even include a living stipend and also play professionally at Carnegie Hall and be honored for vigorously pursuing her talents, why are college athletes bound to a one-sided contractual relationship with their universities, in the name of amateurism?