Highest paid college player?

So who has the highest career earnings and single year earnings as a college player? football, basketball ... Not cost of scholarship but in outside value received. Doesn't have to be cash, cars, plane tickets, hookers, houses...

Cam Newton earned $120,000 - 180,000 to play at Auburn

Reggie Bush earned a house

 

Hart Lee Dykes?

 

If there was an open market for players to get paid, who would be the highest paid athlete currently in college? Does anyone have a chance at topping Wiggins?

 

About a hundred football players. That's where the cash is.

 

Gotta be up there, though a lot of his "earnings" came in high school.

 

Jeremy Bloom?

 

Didn't Patrick Ewing have to take a pay cut to play for the Knicks?

 

Whats Calipari's budget?

 

Yup. Football players would dominate that list.

 

The better investment would be one or two top hoops players. You get the right guy and he can turn a borderline team into a title contender. Football is a lot more of a crapshoot.

 

So what? The level of care about basketball doesn't come close to football. Even at Kansas, look at how Mangino's great year electrified that school. And if Mora keeps building UCLA, just watch -- they'll be a "football school" right quick.

Also since we're being hypothetical, the fact that you only get one year of the basketball player would cut down tremendously on his value.