Obama on Paying Student Athletes: ‘Students Need To Be Taken Better Care Of’

‘In terms of compensation, I think the challenge would just then start being, do we really want to just create a situation where there are bidding wars?’

STEIN: "But what about compensation?"
OBAMA: "— and what does frustrate me is where I see coaches getting paid millions of dollars, athletic directors getting paid millions of dollars, the NCAA making huge amounts of money, and then some kid gets a tattoo or gets a free use of a car and suddenly they’re banished. That’s not fair. In terms of compensation, I think the challenge would just then start being, do we really want to just create a situation where there are bidding wars? How much does a Anthony Davis get paid —
HUFFPOST: "A lot. (Laughter)"
OBAMA: "— as opposed to somebody else? And that I do think would ruin the sense of college sports."

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