Hint:
A lot more than the NCAA wants to admit.
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College football has returned to the airwaves and with it
the debate over paying student-athletes. Though the National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) brought in nearly $1 billion dollars in revenue last year,
the organization continues to resist compensating student-athletes because they
argue it would undermine the ideals of amateurism. But "the term 'student
athlete' is actually a fiction," says Ellen Staurowsky, a sport management
professor at Drexel University. "It was created to obscure the fact that the
NCAA knew that it had created a pay-for-play system."
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