How do you find out how much these players are getting paid while still in college?
How do they get paid?
Beats the shit out of me.
Here's something that I thought about though.
The NCAA is basically a farm system for the NFL. It's been this way for as long as I've been alive. It works well and provides a constant feed of talented, knowledgeable people into the league.
Furthermore, the NCAA football system is a less talented and accomplished league in which most of the athletes won't be drafted into the NFL. Again, this is completely okay if we hold the NFL as the pinnacle of natural talent, luck and learned ability. Why would I want to watch a league with less talented individuals doing less spectacular things unless they're actually competing for something?
However, the communist part of my personality says that if people are providing something from which the organization derives millions and millions of dollars, they should receive some kind of financial compensation for participating.