a full university scholarship tuition fees in the united states are among the highest in the world and there have been coals for athletes to be paid for their work these include former n.b.a. player david west. what they receive in terms of scholarship. is not fair market value for the what they re putting media elite players would be jittery hold that over and then you don t also want to be in the position of desperation where a lot of those of your life if we don t make it in professional sports. there we don t make it. but there s pushback from universities who argue it s not possible to pay players if you start paying athletes for football and basketball that s where all the money will go and there will be less money or no money to support all the other sports david west has joined the promoters of a new college league that promises to pay students up to one hundred fifty thousand