College sports is an affluent industry, where athletic conferences negotiate multi-million dollar television contracts, and the NCAA (the body overseeing collegiate sports) sees those multi-million dollar contracts--laughs--and negotiates multi-billion dollar television contracts of their own.
Indeed, colleges and universities with football and basketball programs that air on national television reap in millions in alumni donations, clamoring for the attention their schools receive--and the coaches of such programs receive bonuses that pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars for good performance (or millions sometimes). College coaches at state colleges and universities are sometimes the highest paid state employee.
Considering the revenue they generate, there's a movement for college athletes to be paid, which is why the Washington Post polled Americans to see how they feel about that prospect.
The results? Largely based upon racial lines.
According to Deadspin:
The largest split came with race: White respondents opposed paying college athletes by a 73-24 margin, while non-white respondents supported salaries for college athletes, 51-46. (Hispanics also narrowly supported paying college players.)
That racial line in America's cities, towns, politics, and religion?
Yeah, it's in its college sports, too.
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