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Pay to Play Student athletes look at college sports in two ways: one being opportunity, and the other as indentured servitude. College sports like football and basketball hold a huge segment of the entertainment industry making those two particular sport seasons year round. Bigger universities have tradition, name recognition, and school pride to uphold with every game. Sponsors, television, and casinos, along with many other businesses have a huge stake in this industry. With so much pressure to succeed, big sport programs like Duke basketball, Florida football, and Notre Dame football need top recruits to maintain or raise the standard of play to which they hold themselves. The competitive nature of the sport now leeks off the field and may be more competitive than the actual game. Programs will try anything, even outside NCAA regulations to grab the recruits they want. College teams have been notorious for illegally paying recruits to come to their school. NCAA has more regulations than Eminem has domestic disturbances. You can’t blame an eighteen, sometimes seventeen year old kid for taking a few favors so he can except a school’s offer of free education in exchange for his athleticism, especially if the stud