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     I get a kick out of those who say college athletes should get paid.  Obviously they don't have kids in college of their own.  DeWitt's Paul Jorgensen loves Michigan State but he accepted a football scholarship to Northwestern where he can study engineering.  Northwestern is the Big Ten's only private school and it costs more than $50,000 per year for room, board, books and tuition to attend.  So if Jorgensen redshirts and spends five years, do the math on what it will cost Northwestern to educate Jorgensen.  Where else can he go to college and get paid the equivalent of $50,000 to play each season in the Big Ten?  Scholarship athletes in effect do get paid and they get paid well because college certainly is not cheap.

     It's one of the biggest obstacles and hurdles facing athletic departments-- paying scholarships back to the university.  Michigan State has more than 700 athletes on scholarship and that money must be covered and returned to the school-- no easy task especially without out of staters in the mix.  College athletes will never get extra cash because the courts would make sure that if a football player got cash, then some gymnast would too and that's just not going to happen, ever.

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