Should College Athletes Get Paid?

Marquiss is in his freshmen year in college. He is a ball player and he is really good at what he does. He is the star of the team and makes the college a lot of money. However, he can’t focus on playing ball because he is worried about paying for his classes and paying his tuition. If Marquiss got paid for his work he does on the basketball court and football field. Marquiss and other sports players in college should only have to focus on playing the sports they play. College athletes like Marquiss should get paid because they are very important to a school, pay would help with tuition and athletes can get overwhelmed.
The first reason that college athletes are very important to a school. People who play sports in college don’t get paid for …show more content…
The money would also help the school’s because a lot of students are in thousands of dollars in debt in tuition if the school’s paid the player the school would also make money back. Student athletes make a lot of money for the colleges from tournaments and the players should receive pay back. Most student athletes are on a full ride scholarship so they wouldn’t have to pay any type or kind of tuition. If a student athlete has a full ride scholarship, the meals and class and books included are paid for them. So they wouldn’t have to worry about not having the …show more content…
Student athletes in college should not get paid as much as professionals but a smaller portion would be appreciated. The small portion would help the student athletes a lot with tuition if they have to pay for school. If they don’t have to pay for tuition and have full ride scholarships then it would help them pay for classes and books for those classes. One more thing that that small amount of money the student athletes should be paid would help with is not having to work or have another job off campus or away from the college the student athlete is attending. In the end, there are no question that the colleges should pay their