Why Do College Athletes Get Paid

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Only 2% of all college athletes make it to the professional level. That is 2% of 460,000 athletes. That means 450,800 of those athletes stop after college, and move on. After all the hard work they put in, it's over. The 40 hours of training per week for years, it's over. And yet the don´t get paid. Why is this? Why do they even play anyway? They play for the love of the game. If we started paying them, they wouldn´t play from love, they would pay from greed. And, how do colleges spend money? Fair pay, and Title IX make it harder than it looks to start paying these athletes. Let the athletes play for love, not greed.

This argument has been around since the 1900s. People have been considering it, and it is not just now. But, colleges are becoming …show more content…

Yes, you might have gotten a job as a teenager, maybe in high school to get to colleges, but those jobs don’t require as much time and effort as adult jobs. Babysitting when you were 13 is much different than being a lawyer. Colleges athletics is not a job. It is something provided by the school for athletes to have fun playing sports and doing what they love. What about the kids who dreamed of being doctors, and they spend the 4 extra years in medical school doing what they love. It’s not fair that just because some kids like sports, that they should be paid in school. College is still school. If we started paying them, it would be a job. Balancing sports on top of school is enough, but a job is ridiculous. These athletes probably have enough on their plate, we don’t need to add more stress onto it because science has proven that leads to physical symptoms like sickness, which could cause them not paying, which equals not getting paid, which equals to more stress, and they cycle just repeats, getting worse each time. Don’t forget the mental symptoms, like stress and maybe even depression, which can be very serious and can lead to suicide. Lets let them be kids having fun playing the sports they love, without worrying about the

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