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"},{"type":"p","html":"Getting to a college athletes' payday, while seemingly inevitable to some, won't be easy. There are numerous hurdles, such as legal challenges to the Northwestern union effort. The NCAA has vowed to fight any effort to change the status of college athletes to employees, and allow any kind of direct salary—as has Northwestern."},{"type":"p","html":"Northwestern's football team is expected to vote on whether to unionize on April 25."},{"type":"p","html":"And critics claim the likely bidding war for high school athletes would force many schools to throw in the towel when it comes to fielding sports teams—saying the cost of paying would be too much. And there's always the argument that athletes do get paid, through scholarships."},{"type":"p","html":"Advocates for paydays see it differently."},{"type":"p","html":""People are missing the point on all this," said David Hollander, professor of hospitality, tourism and sports management at New York University. "It's not whether we should pay college athletes but that if you are an employee and your job is to play sports, than you should get paid.""},{"type":"p","html":"Hollander also said that the U.S. is the only country that uses college athletes as a way to develop players for the professional leagues and that having player development outside of college avoids the "hypocrisy of student-athletes that are really unpaid players.""},{"type":"p","html":"As for a bidding war over salaries, a war is already in place, said Drexel University's Staurowsky."},{"type":"blockquote","html":"

"It's not whether we should pay college athletes but that if you are an employee and your job is to play sports, than you should get paid."

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Before working at CNBC.com, he spent 11 years at Bloomberg LP, where among various duties, he was program producer for the award-winning \"Bloomberg Small Business\" television show.

Koba's background includes a decade of news writing and show producing at CNN, E! Entertainment Television, ABC's \"World News Now,\" \"Good Morning America\" and CBS' \"This Morning.\"

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