National Collegiate Athletic Association vs. Alston [pdf]
The solution in my opinion is to do away with college athletic scholarships and preferred admission for athletes.  Let school&#x27;s field their sports teams from their normal student bodies and ensure that those teams are truly amateur and the participants really are &quot;student-athletes&quot;.  Let the NBA and the NFL field their own semi-professional minor leagues like baseball does.  If these schools have to start paying their football and basketball players (and lets be perfectly clear, that&#x27;s what this is about), it will be the absolute death of virtually every other men&#x27;s sport at the college level, and will likely only leave enough women&#x27;s sports to offset the football team due to Title IX.  I won&#x27;t even get into the ridiculous hypocrisy of our institutions of higher learning pouring billions of dollars into a sport that is proven to cause brain damage, while cutting other sports that don&#x27;t.  That is not at all what college athletics should be about, it should be about extracurricular opportunities for real students.  I think the Division 3 model (no sports scholarships&#x2F;no backdoor admissions) has been much more successful and has provided many more opportunities for students (men and women) to compete in a wider variety of sports.  I say this as someone who was a college athlete on scholarship years ago and still coaches high school.