For Texas Tech Football, and every other college sports program around the country, the concept of paying athletes for play is almost incomprehensible, strictly from a logistics standpoint. Sure, we can place a value amount on players, but that doesn’t create a pro competitive environment for non-blue chips.
For the Frisco ISD (Frisco, TX), administrators have found a way around the “pay-for-play” controversy, in the most controversial way: “pay-to-play.”
In the past, the term “pay-for-play” meant a controversial (and illegal) act of schools offering student-athletes impermissible benefits for attending the institution. But for the Frisco, Texas ISD, that means student-athletes now have to pay for their participation in athletics.