College Athletes: How Will Colleges Distribute Salaries?

How will colleges distribute salaries? College athletes attract revenue for colleges throughout the process of tournaments, while not receiving a single penny. Students should focus more on school and less on sports, “student” comes before “athlete” and a college becomes a learning environment. They should not acquire a salary -- due to the fact that they have received a scholarship decreasing the expenses or are even left with no debts, have the chance to sign a contract with a professional team as scouters are constantly looking at the NCAA and are a school to earn an education that will set them up for life when sports can’t due to an injury. Schools main priority is to teach, the definition of university is “an educational institution …show more content…
Sometimes a student-athlete doesn’t properly acknowledge their schedule and put forward one over the other, allowing the forgotten one to deteriorate over time. Education is left behind while athletes apply all their energy into sports -- main point for attending a college is to obtain an education. They’d rather hit the gym than the books, they have always been told that they are talented enough to go far, but never that education will further their goals in life. In this statement, “Mary Willingham’s stunning charges that 60 percent of the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) football and basketball players read below the 8th grade level” (Power 1). Willingham is a researcher for the University of North Carolina, she illustrates students mentality as unfocused on their studies. Enabling student-athletes to receive paychecks will only increase the percentage as they now believe that their sport has turned into a job, when money starts hitting their bank accounts they will forget about school. If since from the gecko, students are given the idea that they don't have to pay attention in school to be successful, then they will never know what to do when an injury occurs ending their career. An education should prepare you for the real world by understanding how to handle your money, problems that pro’s …show more content…
College athletes are so focused on gaining a paycheck that they don't realize all the materials that surround them are building them for their future -- facilities that can improve their in game abilities are in most colleges. College sports also set up them up for the real world, something they have never experienced -- they are being prepared with all practice dates that the have to attend and learn how to control the stress given to them, knowing that they have to deliver A+ material every game. If they fail, their careers don’t fall, it’s a learning environment. Also, if they get paid, it indicates that they have reached a level of maturity to handle money in their pockets, wrong, if they are mature then the right thing would be to drop the sport and pick up the books. They know that the sport is overwhelming their education and a possibility to leave without a diploma and a secured job. In a recent study shows the cost for the facilities in colleges, “USC's John McKay Center - $70 Million” (Zirm 1). An average tuition is around $30,000, nowhere need the amount for advanced facilities -- the amount of support college athletes receive to improve their skills is too much compared to their tuition, if they want to get paid the money should instead head towards maintaining the training facilities in check or improving