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Amid renewed calls for colleges to start paying athletes, several organizations representing college and university athletics directors issued a joint statement Wednesday denouncing the idea. The statement said that the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), the 1A Athletic Directors' Association, the Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association (FCS ADA) and the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association were working together to support reforms of intercollegiate athletics. The statement quoted Morgan Burke, athletics director at Purdue University, and spokesman for the various associations as saying that paying athletes is not part of a solution the real problems that exist. "Pay for play has no part in the amateur setting," Burke said. He noted that the value of a full scholarship and support services for an athlete at Purdue exceeds $250,000.
