As much as I love College Athletics, and in particular football, things seem to have gotten way out of proportion. And, yeah I know I am going to get a lot of kickback for posting this about compensation but among the many things student athletes receive, aren’t free tuition, free room and board, free tutors and counselors, along with a number of other perks a form of compensation? On the one hand people complain about how much a college education costs and how many students are deeply in debt when they graduate. On the other hand, we then say student athletes who are getting a free ride and more aren’t being compensated. Some people may believe they aren’t being compensated enough but they are being compensated. Perhaps the discussion should have more emphasis placed on the question of why did as student athlete enroll in school in the first place. Did they enroll to get a good education or did they come to school to play ball in the minor leagues for the pros. If the system is set up so that a student just comes to school to play in the minor leagues for the pros then perhaps a case could be made that, under those conditions, athletics no longer belong in Higher Education.