Explain why college athletes shouldn't/won't ever get paid.

Because we ain't never DONE it that way!

 

A student-athlete can transfer to whatever school he or she wishes to. The original school cannot restrict his/her choice.

It can, however, refuse to sign a release and thus prevent that student from receiving athletic financial aid for one year at a particular school or scvhools. In such cases, the student can pay his/her own way for a year to the school of his/her choice, and then receive aid the following year.

Refusing to sign a release does give the original school some protection against a rival school poaching its athletes.

 

The article you put in mentions booster clubs and mentions private individuals giving to the institutions, which are obligated to make sure the benefits are equal. I'm reading that as something, for example, a private individual pays for the men's basketball team to stay at a 5-star hotel on road trips. The school is then obligated to come up with funding for the women's team to stay at a 5-star hotel.

It doesn't mention private individuals giving to individual athletes. The school is the middleman in this case, and the rule you listed doesn't cut out the middleman. If a booster wants to pay for a football player's meal in a restaurant, he's not obligated to also pay for a women's volleyball player's meal. But if he sees both teams in the restaurant, then it's up to the school to either have the guy pay for both teams, or to come up with the money for the women's team to be paid, because both teams are in the restaurant under the school's watch.

From the article: "It does, however, place a responsibility on the district to insure that benefits, services, treatment and opportunities overall, regardless of funding sources, are equivalent for male and female athletes.”

I'm focusing on the "opportunities overall" part of the sentence. There are equal opportunities for the athletes. No one can force someone to buy a women's volleyball player a meal. It's called individual choice.

 

Schools don't need any protection. A rival school poaches its athletes, tough shit. Besides, until the rule was passed, there wasn't anything protecting the athletes from being dumped.