Remember, everyone working the Final Four gets paid but the players

The Final Four games are tonight and let it serve as a reminder that everyone working the games will be paid, except for the actual players.

Do you know what’s crazy? I’ll be paid more for writing this article about the Final Four than any of the players actually playing in the games to get to the national championship game.

All the broadcasters, all the media sitting on media row, everyone working at U.S. Bank Stadium making sure the event goes off without a hitch for the spectators and countless more people will be financially compensated for the work they put into covering the Final Four.

The four coaches who led their teams to the Final Four received large bonuses totaling $1.4 million but there’s just no room to pay the players, apparently.

However, the players who have worked daily and nightly for months and months will get nothing but the experience of playing on the big stage and the exposure that comes along with it.

Sounds like a pretty fair deal, right?

Heck no, it doesn’t.

But that’s the NCAA and that’s how things have always been, but that doesn’t mean that’s how things should always be.

The NCAA has to figure out a way to compensate their student-athletes financially. A scholarship is not even close to a commensurate way of repaying what they deliver to their program institutions.

That’s nothing new, but the more chatter there is from fans of college athletics remain as vocal as they have been in recent years, there will be pressure put on the NCAA to make things right.

Not to mention, it’ll be a sure-fire way to eliminate a lot of the dirty shenanigans going on under the table, but it’ll be the ethical thing to do.