College Athletes Should Not Get Paid

Student athletes should get paid by their schools because they generate revenue for various organizations, spend hours practicing and playing their sport, and risk their body of getting injured. Female and male college athletes should get paid from their schools. The female and the male athletes not only go to class, but they also both participate in a school activity that takes away time from their ability to earn an income from a regular job. While some people think college athletes should get paid others think they should not.

An athlete not getting paid is a policy written down by the NCAA that college athletes should not receive any money from their school. Most arguments about college athletes not getting paid by their school is an excuse

by the NCAA that it would turn athletes into employees. Like any job a human works and get pays and so should athletes. The policy that stops college athletes from receiving money from their school for their performance and bringing in billions of dollars to the school is like a regular person working at a job and not getting paid.
Both female and male college athletes generate revenue for a variety of organizations.

When college athletes perform well, the colleges make more money off the fans. Stadiums the size of Ole Miss, Alabama, and Mississippi State hold a lot of fans to bring in money to watch college student athletes perform. D. Staneley Eitzen, a professor at the department of Sociology of Colorada State Univeristy agrees that college athletes should be paid by their school in his article "College Athletes Should Be Paid." Eitzen says, “The governing body of big time college sports, the NCAA is caught in a huge contradiction trying to reconcile a multibillion dollar industry while claiming it is really an amateur activity” ("College Athletes Should Be Paid."). He feels colleges make enough money to give college athletes scholarships and a pay check. Big games on television bring in a lot of money to the school. Big games on television for college athletes means time spent away from class and regular income jobs, which brings in a lot of money to schools’ revenue but not the athlete. Eitzen says, “Each team playing in a BCS game currently receives about 13,000,000 and under the terms of the new contracts will receive around 17,000,000 in the final years of the agreement” ("College Athletes Should Be Paid."). Student college athletes should get paid from the school because of the money gamers make off of NCAA video games. Gamers make millions off college student athletes. The college

athlete should get a percentage off of the games being sold in stores because they are the ones making buyers buy the games.
Student college athletes should get paid from the school because of the time spent on the sport. Tom Palaima, a Dickson Centenial Professor of Classics at the Univeristy of Texas at Austin agrees with that student athletes should get paid. He believes if college athletes got paid money they would turn into employees and their jobs would keep them out of trouble. According to Palaima, Romonce Taylor, one of the best running backs to come through Texas, lost his scholarship and a chance to play football at the next level because he was trying to sell marijuana to get money ("College Athletes Should Be Paid as Schools Neglect Their Academic Interests."). Palaimia believes players only get a small portion of the money through scholarships and this policy is not right. Student athletes practice a lot. A student college athlete spends about 41 hours or more practicing through the week to get ready to perform in a game. They should get paid because that is more hours than an average human works in a week. Student college athletes also miss a lot of class because of big games on television that brings in a lot of money to the school. Palaimia says, “College schools make 12,000,000 a year off college athletes only giving the athlete 2,000,000 of that money back in scholarships over a four year period of time” ("College Athletes Should Be Paid as Schools Neglect Their Academic Interests.").
Student athletes run the risk of getting injured by entertaining fans. Athletes get bruised up from hits on the field. In result of that, college athletes should get paid by their school for putting their body on the line for the school. College athletes tear ACLs that prevent them from walking normally in the future. College athletes also suffer brain damage from concussions. It is damage to the brain that slows down many athletes’ thinking and their reactions to questions.
While some people think college athletes should get paid others think otherwise. Athletes not getting paid is a policy written down by the NCAA that college athletes should not get paid by their school for their performance. Most arguments about college athletes not getting paid by their school is an excuse by the NCAA that it would turn athletes into employees.
Rebecca Zisso, born in Rome, Italy is known for her on Wonder Woman 2017, disagrees that athletes should not get paid by their school in the article “Fair Play: Should College Athletes get Paid.” In Zisso’s article, Rick Burton a sports management professor at Syracuse University in New York says, “Athletes should not get paid because their college expenses are covered.” He says, “Many top players receive scholarships that pays for books, tutoring, housing, meals, clothing, elite coaching, medical care, travel expenses and career counseling” ( "Fair Play: Should College Athletes Get Paid?").

Zisso believes the money college athletes make for the school is paid back to them through their scholarship. Kieran McCauley a writer for the Daily Local New in Montogemery agrees with Zisso that college athletes should not get paid by their school in his article, “College Athletics Shouldn’t be Paid.” McCauley states, “Student College athletes’ scholarships are their compensation and a fair one at that” (“College Athletics Shouldn’t be Paid.”). “Essentially they receive a free education and in return they represent the school” (McCauley). “Krikor Meshefejian is a senior editor for the Journal of the Business Law Society who agrees with Zisso that college athletes should not get paid by their school” (Meshefejian). Mark Murphy, Director of Athletics at Northwestern University, who participated in the sports television network debate on the topic of paying student-athletes, says in

Mesefejian article, “Pay to Play: Should College Athletes Be Paid?", “Paying athletes anything beyond a scholarship, argues Murphy, would cause problems, particularly from a gender equity standpoint” (Mesefejian).
Joseph Nocera, known as Joe the sport writer for the New York Times, was born May 6, 1952 in Providence Rhode Island. Bob Williams, the other author, is also a writer for the New York Times. They agrees with Rebecca Zisso about college athletes getting paid by their school is wrong in their article, "Should College Athletes Be Paid?" Nocera and Williams says, “Paying college athletes would shift their focus away from academics” ("Should College Athletes Be Paid?"). He believes if colleges started paying athletes they would think about money and not an education. Nocera and Williams says, “Paying college athletes to play turns them into employees” ("Should College Athletes Be Paid?"). They said, “Only two percent of college athletes make it to the professional league, so they should focus on their education and not a paycheck” (Nocera and Williams). Nocera and Williams think the money the athletes help bring to the school is giving back to the players through the 2.7 billion dollars in scholarships issued out to them throughout their four years at the school. ("Should College Athletes Be Paid?"). They said, “Athletes are reward for their hard work by leaving school debt free.” (Nocera and Williams).
While some people think college athletes should get paid others think they should not. Student college athletes need money for a lot of reasons. They have needs and wants. Student athletes should get paid for their hard work on the field, court, or track. They bring fans to the game, which means money for the school. Some of the money being made could go out to the student college athletes who help bring it in.