College Athletes Should Receive Salaries

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Pay for Play? Introduction Imagine you are a troubled kid that grew up in a gang-controlled neighborhood. You live day to day not knowing if today is you or your family‘s last day. Now imagine someone telling you that they can give your family money to help them get out of the hood and into a safe place. You have a scholarship to a major university and if you work hard you will become pro and make millions of dollars a year. But you can’t bear to see your family suffer any longer so you take the bit of money and use it to get your family to be safe. Now that same university is filing sanctions against you and the person that gave you the money. They are dropping your scholarship and now no other college in the country will take you. Now you are back to where you started and you don’t know how to do anything else. This is the issue with college sports these days, too many troubled kids are working their butts off to stay out of trouble throughout their childhood and keep up with their sport just so they can play for a university and in return they get to go to school for free. What about any other things they need? Are they supposed to just live their lives off of free tuition at a university? According to USA today, kids that participate in college athletics devote on average more than 43 hours per week to their sport and they devote on average 38 hours per week on academics (USAtoday). However, NCAA rules state that a university is not allowed to have more than 20 hours a week of practice no matter what sport it is. Even with this illegal workload that is forced upon these kids, the players are still expected to follow every other rule that the NCAA enforces. That entails that they wear the same clothes they’ve be... ... middle of paper ... ...k because it gives money to the ones who truly need it. These young men are putting over 80 hours per week on their sport and their schoolwork, and even though $2,000 is less than minimum wage, scholarships cover their living and education so that money will go towards whatever the individual needs. Works Cited "5 Facts About Full-Ride Scholarships." Athletic Scholarships. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014. "Career Ending Injury - The Beginning of the Rest of Your Life -..." NCSA Athletic Recruiting Blog RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014. Waldron, Travis. "What Was Missing From The Meet The Press Panel On Paying College Athletes." ThinkProgress RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014. Wieberg, Steve. "NCAA Survey Delves into Practice Time, Coaches' Trust - USATODAY.com." NCAA Survey Delves into Practice Time, Coaches' Trust - USATODAY.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2014.

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