I personally think that college athletes should be paid. Many people would disagree
and say that the players are already on full rides. This is true, however you
cant fit a entire team into a full ride. Every team has players getting a free
education, however, Many players have to pay for their own education.
There are many walk-on athletes on these sports teams, the have to pay for their
own education while spending countless hours training to help their team win.
These players should be giving a portion of what they are giving to the program.
In other words, these players that dedicated a lot of time into their
sport and the program should be rewarded with a portion of the money that is
spent watching them play.
Paying college athletes could also raise the performance of the players,
they could have more motivation while training knowing that they are going
to be getting paid for the work that they are putting in.
Most of the players in pro sports get paid millions a year, that is no where
near the number that college athletes should be paid. Many college students have
part time jobs that they work at after and before class to help them afford
living expenses and food. Given that athletes spend 90% of their time outside of
class training for their sport they cant have a job.
Say a student works for 20 hours a week at the local Out Back and makes 10$ a
hour, that is 80 hours a month and making 800$ every month. Athletes don’t have
the time to work 80 hours a month, not near enough time.
Athletes do get free flights to go play away games, free meals, and team gear
along with many other things i'm sure. However, these players need money to do
the things they want and buy the things they need.
College football makes the most out of all college sports, that's given. Alabama
made a little over $123 million in 2008, they made the most that year. Texas at
120 million, LSU 85 million, and Oregon at number 40 on the list of 2008 at 56
million. These numbers are only for the football teams. So, surely with the
amount of money they are making they can pay the players putting in a large
portion of their time.
I am not saying that we pay players like Johnny Manziel 2million dollars a year
or even $2,000 a semester. I think that college athletes should receive a
percentage of the income and divide between the team, or be paid a base of 500$
a month while school is in session. 500$ a month is lower that a student working
a 20 hour work week at 10$ a hour.
Many people think that college students should have a job in college and these
students that are student athletes can not have a job with their schedule during
the school year. Managing a time schedule between games, practices, studying, and
needed sleep would be very difficult with hardly any reward and dedication to the
job cause you would be there so rarely.
In conclusion college athletes should be rewarded with a portion of money that they
are helping their program earn.
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