College Athletes Get Paid

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Opponents may argue that collegiate athletes shouldn’t get paid because the athletes are already compensated for their time they put into their sport. As Kieran McCauley has noted, “71 percent of students leave a public four-year institution or private non-profit four-year institution in debt. The average debt is $32,528.” When a student athlete plays a sport, they sometimes can receive a free education. This ends up saving them tens of thousands of dollars of debt, leading them to leave college with nothing but a diploma. Individuals that agree with the rule also conclude that the NCAA gives away enough benefits to collegiate athletes without having to pay the students. According to Junior Scholastic the NCAA gives about $2.7 billion of athletic …show more content…

The way sports are played in college can also become lackadaisical if money gets involved, which is seen in professional sports all the time. Bringing money into the equation could also lead to student athletes not going to class because they don't need a diploma to live and which also begins the controversy of how much an athlete should get paid because certain conferences or programs make a lot more money than other programs.
If college athletes get paid this will motivate them to play harder, unlike professional athletes. These students would not be making millions of dollars leaving them to strive to play harder knowing that if they don’t perform they could lose their scholarship and their job. College athletes live almost in poverty because the money that they receive from their scholarships is not enough money to sustain them for simple necessities and miscellaneous items. It is argued that college athletes are amateurs and if they receive any income they are seen as professional athletes and are no longer able to play in college. Although the same could be said at minor league baseball which is considered to be an amateur sport except those athletes get paid according to their …show more content…

For one thing they could start paying college coaches a lot less. College football and men’s basketball coaches get paid an excessive amount of money. An example of this is “John Calipari, the head coach of the University of Kentucky’s men’s basketball team, who received over $7.1 million in 2017” (Gernado 158). If colleges and universities paid coaches less money they would be able to have the funds to pay their athletes, especially at the bigger universities with successful college football and basketball programs. The money could also come from professional leagues because almost all the athletes that end up going pro come from the NCAA. The college league could also be considered a league under the pros since it is an amateur league so that they could pay students because they have enough money. The NCAA could also contribute money since they have more than enough funds especially with the money that they end up making each year from the

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