Should College Athletes Be Paid?

After numerous scandals over the past several years of college athletes receiving improper benefits, the question has come up whether or not college athletes should be paid or not. College sports are a growing industry, and we have seen money destroy organizations, teams, and players in this industry.  The determination and motivation of college athletes supersedes professional athletes by their will to win; therefore, college athletes should not be paid.

College athletes, especially division 1 athletes have tremendous talent in whatever sport that they play in college, this is why college coaches recruit them and make sure that they attend their university. There is some speculation as to whether or not a college athlete should be paid while attending any university. The answer is no. College athletes are not professional athletes and this is one of the main points and they should not get paid due to the fact that some are not ready for that privilege and it defeats the purpose of them going to college. College athletes are labeled as student-athletes and the first term in that name is “student”. This is for a specific reason which is that not all college athletes are going to end up playing in a professional league and attending college

In recent years mixed feeling have been discussed over college student athletes getting paid. Some feel that players should be rewarded for the huge amount of revenue generated on behalf of their play. Especially when coaches are receiving huge multi million dollar contracts. Currently, NCAA rules do not allow players to receive any compensation. The non-fiction article, “Should College Player get Paid?”, written by Michael Gonchar, explains how NCAA classifies Division I football players as amateurs, not professionals, student-athletes, not employees, which is how colleges get away with paying them nothing. With respect to how hard and how much time college athletes put in, college football players should not get paid due to scholarships, playing is a privilege not a job, and money allocation . They should how ever be compensated, such as

Two heated debates arise when considering faults in modern-day college athletics. The first is in college football whether or not a playoff system should be implemented in order to determine a definite Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Champion. This major issue in college football has been temporarily solved with the approval of a four-team playoff starting in 2014 and ending in 2025 (Dinich 1). Though it remains highly exclusive to the top four ranked teams at the end of the season, there lies an opportunity to grow its structure. Second tier, Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) expanded the playoff from 16 teams to 24 teams by giving the top eight seeds a bye in round one. The second most controversial question recurring in college

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Throughout the United States college athletes are forced into debt due to busy athletic requirements on top of standard coursework. A great percentage of athletes finish their athletic career without even graduating college with a degree. These athletes are a huge marketing tool for this universities, from the sales of their jerseys, to using their talent to showcase their brand/logo on television, and also making millions of dollars off of contracts with television networks. Because of this I believe college athletes should be compensated for the time and dedication during their time as an athlete in college

Although I do understand why you might assume that college football players deserve to be paid. An example from the article is,” “There are. . . nights that I go to bed and I’m starving,” Shabazz Napier, a star point guard for the University of Connecticut,told reporters last spring before he was drafted by the Miami Heat. So that shows that the players actually do need the money. Another statement of the text, “ “There’s an issue of fairness,” says Risa Lieberwitz, a professor of labor and employment law at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. “The question that’s being raised here is. . . whether the amateur label is simply a cover for exploitation.” “. This could actually be true, considering how much money that colleges can make off of the players they might actually not be paying them just because

Yes, in my opinion this is one of the main reasons why the NCAA and universities separate student-workers and student-athletes. If the NCAA was to deem student-athletes as employees of the university than the NCAA and the universities will lose money, in which they will avoid at any cost necessary. Student-athletes are treated like employees without having the benefits of an employee. In every other business in American

College sports is a business that brings in a lot of money to schools and athletic programs. Division I college athletes, particularly football and basketball players, get many perks for contributing to the team’s season and devoting so much time to the sport. What is not often thought about is the money that football and basketball brings in and what the athletes get in return for bringing this money to the university. Many athletes are taken advantage of because the schools use the money for their own benefit, do not take into consideration the athletes busy schedule and not having time for a job, their living and medical expenses, and how important they are to bringing in money for the school.

Should college athletes get paid? This question has been on the table for discussion, ever since intercollegiate athletics became mainstream in American culture during the late 19th century. However, the possible routes to the answer have been shut down because the pioneers of intercollegiate athletics described a college athlete an “amateur” and “amateurs play for the love of the game” (Smith 10). Intercollegiate athletics were not as serious these days; education was the number priority of institutions and sports came as a supplement. Institutions were responsible for providing the “free education” to prepare students for the future. Well, gone are those days when education is the number one priority of big-time institutions. In fact,

One of the biggest controversies going on in America, especially within sports, is whether college athletes should or should not be paid. As it stands now, college athletes are not being paid with actual money. Instead, they are rewarded with athletic scholarships. NCAA and colleges believe that their athletes should not be paid due to their amateur status. However, college athletes should be paid because they don’t have time to get jobs, they may lose their scholarship, and they make a lot of money for their school.

There is always that question being asked about whether or not college athletes should be paid. The article College Athletes Getting Paid? Here Are Some Pros And Cons from the “Huffington Post” by Malcolm Lemmons argues that there is no right or wrong answer to the question at hand. However, to some the idea of college athletes being paid is absurd, while to others not so much. This article touches on many different factors from race to financial status of the players.

Have you heard the controversial topic sweeping the nation for years now? This is topic is whether or not college athletes should get paid for representing their school. Without a doubt, college athletes should not get paid for playing their respective sport. There is very little logic behind why they would get paid and is backed up by insignificant evidence. The athletes get paid in the form of scholarship which is not cheap and offers numerous benefits.

As said before, let’s break down the definition of “student athletes.” In the last paragraph, it was discussed whether students should get paid. In this section, we will discuss the importance of athletes. Currently, athletes are not paid in any sport unless they turn professional. Some universities and colleges give compensation to college athletes and they may deduct tuition and other various fees from athletes for just being an athlete, but they are not personally paid due to NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) regulations, by which many universities and colleges adhere by. Why pay athletes in the first place? Sports are a platform for entertainment. People pay professional actors and actresses for entertaining their audience by going to the movies, people pay artist at fairs for the amazing creations that they create, and people pay musicians and singers for entertaining the audience at shows. People pay for entertainment. College sports are a form of entertainment. Similar to movies, fairs, and shows, sports provide an avenue

For many years people have wondered if college athletes should be paid. The NCAA rule is that you cannot take money from coaches or promise to pay. For many years, these athletes have been having a lot of attention to college sports. However they are in school and you don’t see high school kids being paid to play sports. But they also have practice every day for however long it is then they have classes.