These guys bring up the obvious arguments about "student athletes," but they ignore the real reason this is an issue. College football is a business whose typical head coach is paid ten times as much as professors on his campus. And speaking of hypocrisy, every conference commissioner is paid more than every college president in his conference. In most states, a head football coach is the highest paid public employee, except for the states where the conference commissioners make more than the coaches. Decisions about stadiums and schedules are based entirely on revenue streams, especially TV. The welfare of the players is not even a consideration, although perhaps half of these young men will die young from brain injuries.  If this article included a discussion of the salaries of the authors, then the article might have some credibility. These guys are scared to death they will not be able to compete with the big boys in Power 5 conferences if they have to pay their players.