I don't mean to take the focus off of hot chicks and stripping, but if you have a second you should check out this "article"..ranting, raving nonsense would be a better description for it, but anyway.

Ex-USC cheaters Bush, Mayo deserve financial suffering - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com

NO. Hes why USC has to vacate wins and the title, but USC, and the BOOSTERS ruined his eligibility, minus what ever his families financial situation, what young college kid is turning down money??? for playin football at that??? Yes it is Clearly stated in the NCAA Student Athlete Hand Book, that receiving money or unkind benefits is a violation and will force you to loose your amateur status no matter the sport ( Jeremy Bloom college FB and olympic skiing) the loss of amateur status rules said athlete ineligible from their respective sport. Reggie Bush did not read that hand book i know so cus when I went off to UMass I looked at that manual and used it as a door stop numerous players all over CFB are gettin paid to some degree its been going on FOREVER!! That manual is so big it makes you wonder if you are even allowed to breathe, If he has to give it up then they need to investigate the rest of the modern era winners for amateur status violations... Hes got a Super Bowl Ring i'll take that all day long.

So the head coach can get paid millions of dollars,but the players can't recieve a penny.WTF.

I agree ..Bush is a drop in the pond to what goes on in college sports..he just got ratted out...

The players are getting paid. How much does it cost to go to USC for four years, live in the dorms or student appartments for four years, to have every meal paid for for four years? How much was that scolarship worth that Reggie Bush recieved? Their job is to play football to the absolute best of their ability and to keep decent grades. That's what they get paid for. If college players could get paid like a pro, if they could recieve endorsements, they would spend way too much time working with agents, lawyers, and sponsers instead of the important things I mentioned before, school and football. IMO.

There's an argument for what you're saying - for those athletes on full scholarship, even though I think the money they (the big names like Reggie) bring in and the intangibles equate to more money than their scholarship is worth...it's hard to measure the way a high school kid feels toward a University because of "x" player...I mean how do you put a dollar value on that?

Still, they aren't all on full scholarship right? And even still, you're telling this kid, "look, your school, your meals, and your rent are paid for." Then we tell them, "you can NOT take another dollar from whatever the entity because you'll lose it all." So the players can essentially whore themselves out to the school - they get tuition and meals and a place to sleep in return for their performance, which benefits the school in their recruiting efforts and puts buts in seats and generates a LOT of money for the institution, yet they cannot whore themselves out to a booster who wants to give them a car?

I understand my argument isn't terribly lucid, and I confess I haven't looked in to the whole picture as to the why's and why not's, but it seems to me, on the surface at least, that the rules that prohibit these kids from taking advantage of their position aren't entirely for the benefit if the kids.