College football players getting paid?

[Kevin]

Paying your athletes a FAIR amount and I'd shoot for much higher than $75 a month would help to eliminate corruption. I'm sure that most Big 12 and other major schools players recieve lots of money from boosters as it is. They get caught doing it every once in awhile but the people doing it aren't dumb and are unlikely to get caught.

Oklahoma actually became what it is today through the OU Touchdown Club paying players as much as $50,000 per year (this was documented back in the 1950's). That's when they put together that 42 game winning streak.

Old traditions die hard. The only way to bring it under control is to give players enough money to make them see these handouts as something that is not worth the risk of accepting. As it is, many of them come from poor families that can hardly afford to feed them.