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NCAA won't budge on paying college athletes
NCAA
MILWAUKEE — The structure of the NCAA could look very different by this time next year as members try to resolve the growing disparity between big-money schools and smaller institutions. What won't change, however, is the amateur status of the players who make college athletics a billion-dollar business. "One thing that sets the fundamental tone is there's very few members and, virtually no university president, that thinks it's a good idea to convert student-athletes into paid employees.