In this image found on the internet, we see a powerful display which supports those in favor of paying student athletes. It is significant because it shows the combined salary in 2011 of top 15 highest-paid coaches in college football to be 53.4 million dollars while the combined salaries of the 13,877 Division I football players to be nothing. This is startling data because colleges clearly do not view the idea of coaching as falling under the sanctity of amateurism. Also, it is usually not the likenesses and names of the coaches used for apparel and video game sales, which begs the question as to whether or not the student athletes are getting taken advantage of.
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