Put University of Richmond football coach Latrell Scott in the category of those who don't believe college athletes should be paid.
"I think you just open up a whole can of worms if you did," said Scott, a former assistant at Tennessee and Virginia who played at Hampton University. "I'm probably a little bit old-school in this thought, but I think the kids are actually getting a free education."
The Richmond native and Lee-Davis High grad, however, likes the idea of something along the lines of a monthly stipend for athletes, based on financial need.
"There are things you'd like to see the NCAA do to help some of the kids who are coming from different backgrounds and situations to enable them to have a little bit more of a college life. Just so they'd have the ability to go on dates, to be regular college students," said Scott, 36.
"I think sometimes you bring in kids from different walks of life, and they want to do things that their classmates are doing. They want to be able to buy clothes and do things that their background just doesn't allow them to do.
"But I don't think you can open it up and say, 'You need to pay these guys.' "
John O'Connor
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