Problems With Paying College Athletes
Paying College Athletes This problem with paying college athletes has been introduced in lots of courts throughout the years. The question where these millions of dollars should go. Should all this money go into paying college athletes for the sports that they play in college? They play these sports and help build a good reputation for the college that they attend, but the answer for whether to pay them is simple. I do not believe that college athletes should be paid in college. This might be a shocker for a lot of people, but this answer is very simple with facts on why paying these athletes could be a very bad thing. My personal opinion on the issue comes from my personal insight and experience with sports even now. Even though I am
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As Kristi Dosh said in her essay "The Problems With Paying College Athletes" said that It would not be fair for those players who do way more work than others to be paid the same amount as those players that do minimal work at most. And paying these athletes more for what they do will start fights with players for equal pay since they are playing the same sport and are on the same team. No matter what this will start another topic of paying all college players the same amount which will end up starting another problem and will not fix the issue at all. An example of this happening could be for football for instance. Most big college teams will have hundreds of players on the sideline in games at a time. But, only 11 players are actually on the field at a time. Adding both offensive and defensive players and substitutes this can add up to about maybe 40 players playing in games a lot and more frequently than others. But even though there is a large portion of players on the sidelines who do not do as much work as others they are still counted on the team. So if you were to pay these players, then you would be paying both the players who play frequently in games and do tons of work and paying the players who are on the sidelines not doing much work at all. But you would still need to pay all the …show more content…
This can lead to a bunch of money being used, prices going up exponentially, more arguments and fighting, and even making the school cut sports that students could play in. More problems would and will sprout from this if athletes start to be getting paid and it will leave a lot of smaller schools to be in a lot of trouble who will struggle financially with this. So the question on where should the money goes answer should be into the school itself because paying the athletes could be the downfall of a lot of athletes and schools around the
As Kristi Dosh said in her essay "The Problems With Paying College Athletes" said that It would not be fair for those players who do way more work than others to be paid the same amount as those players that do minimal work at most. And paying these athletes more for what they do will start fights with players for equal pay since they are playing the same sport and are on the same team. No matter what this will start another topic of paying all college players the same amount which will end up starting another problem and will not fix the issue at all. An example of this happening could be for football for instance. Most big college teams will have hundreds of players on the sideline in games at a time. But, only 11 players are actually on the field at a time. Adding both offensive and defensive players and substitutes this can add up to about maybe 40 players playing in games a lot and more frequently than others. But even though there is a large portion of players on the sidelines who do not do as much work as others they are still counted on the team. So if you were to pay these players, then you would be paying both the players who play frequently in games and do tons of work and paying the players who are on the sidelines not doing much work at all. But you would still need to pay all the …show more content…
This can lead to a bunch of money being used, prices going up exponentially, more arguments and fighting, and even making the school cut sports that students could play in. More problems would and will sprout from this if athletes start to be getting paid and it will leave a lot of smaller schools to be in a lot of trouble who will struggle financially with this. So the question on where should the money goes answer should be into the school itself because paying the athletes could be the downfall of a lot of athletes and schools around the