In less than a month, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will be kicking off its first ever NCAA college playoffs. This event has brought up talks and news headlines from all over the country. Chunks of money will be made by colleges and the NCAA, possibly more then ever. According to Skip Bayless, a journalist with ESPN, “ESPN is paying about $470 million annually for the next 12 years” (Bayless N.P.), just to broadcast this new college football playoff, that is about $5.6 billion dollars in total. In 2013 the NCAA received $445 million in gross off of college football bowl games, ESPN alone this year will be paying more money to broadcast the college football playoffs then the NCAA made off of all of their bowl game sponsors last year. So why do college athletes deserved to get paid, and why do they deserve to not be paid? “Unleash the Boosters”, an article written by ESPN’s Skip Bayless is heavily in favor of paying college football athletes. Bayless says that colleges should have to bid on the players that they want, and not with just free tuition or $2,000 in “spending money,” but with big contracts that will bring in a real income. He argues that this country was built on a free-market economy, supply and demand, and the best 18 year-old football players are in high demand (Bayless). Bayless talks about television networks paying billions of dollars just to televise these kids, but yet this players are getting none of that money. Bayless says, “Yet the stars of the show are forced to risk their pro futures for three unpaid years playing a violent, high-stakes game before packed stadiums seating upward of 100,000 and TV audiences of millions? That's the biggest crime in sports.” You can tell that the writer is fed up with the NCAA and really wants these players to get paid something for risking their careers. So what is the NCAA’s take on all of this? In September of 2013, ESPN released an article titled “NCAA president: Not a good idea,” well, the title pretty much says it all. NCAA president Mark Emmert said, "One thing that sets the fundamental tone is there's very few members and, virtually no university president, that thinks it's a good idea to convert student-athletes into paid employees. Literally into professionals." Emmert thinks that by paying college athletes, college sports will be changed comple