From the Nov. 7, 2011 issue:

Three years ago Ross was waiting with his mother for a flight from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles. The plane was delayed, and Ross sat for several hours, people watching. “I noticed all these nonrevenue sports teams—men’s lacrosse, tennis and other teams from the Big East—that were catching flights,” he recalls. “One of them was the Seton Hall tennis team, which was flying back from playing Marquette. It occurred to me how little sense that made. Why was Seton Hall paying to fly tennis players to Milwaukee? Why didn’t they just take a bus to a school that’s close by?”

(via Sports Illustrated)

I’m definitely not an expert on the best solution to the problems facing the NCAA and pay-for-play. It seems like there can be a better solution than saying “Let’s just pay all the student athletes.”