Should College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid
A Call for College Athletes to Be Paid The NCAA makes an estimate of nine hundred and eighty nine million dollars annually. The NCAA is able to make this gigantic profit while paying its employees absolutely nothing. If this situation would happen with a large employer paying its employees nothing, the company would get into serious legal trouble. However, since they are college athletes, society thinks it is okay. While many people say that receiving an education is enough of a privilege and paying college athletes would ruin the spirit of the game, college athletes should nevertheless be able to use their names for monetary gain because, everyone else in the business gets paid, college athletes train like professional athletes and athletes produce millions for their college but are paid nothing. First of all, some of the people who are opposed to paying college athletes say that educational scholarships are sufficient enough, paying athletes would devalue the purpose of education. The idea of paying college athletes is not devaluing the importance of education, however for many college athletes, college is just a stepping stone towards their professional careers. Many college athletes never use what they learned in the classroom. For example, according to the
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Doing so is unamerican and selfish because athletes deserve to be paid. College athletes deserve the right to use their name for a profit and receive financial compensation because, everyone else in the business gets paid, being an athlete is like a full time job, and they are the ones who produce the revenue. Even though a small percentage of people are college athletes, one day you or someone you know might become a collegiate athlete and have to struggle with this unjust situation. Because of this, there needs to be spreading awareness through media discussion for college athletes to be paid around the United
Doing so is unamerican and selfish because athletes deserve to be paid. College athletes deserve the right to use their name for a profit and receive financial compensation because, everyone else in the business gets paid, being an athlete is like a full time job, and they are the ones who produce the revenue. Even though a small percentage of people are college athletes, one day you or someone you know might become a collegiate athlete and have to struggle with this unjust situation. Because of this, there needs to be spreading awareness through media discussion for college athletes to be paid around the United