Analysis: Why College Athletes Should Not Get Paid

Classes. Game time. Stress. College athletes have a plentiful amount on their plate. Not knowing where money would come from adds more on top of school and sports. Paying athletes would eliminate stress. The NCAA refuses to pay athletes, but it’s not that they don’t have money. They have billions of dollars off of capitalizing, ticket sales, and team winnings. So why don’t they pay players? College athletes should get paid because their sports are jobs, paying would make sports more competitive, and people capitalizing off college names while players still get nothing.
Being an athlete in college means you contribute about 40 hours to your sport. They have a full time college schedule with studying, mandatory classes, and let’s not forget practice. According to an article, “If the average NCAA college football player in division one spends over 40 hours a week on their game, then they are working the same amount as those in full time employment do”(Listland 1). Since 40 hours are dedicated to the game, that takes up a lot of time in schedules. The athletes also have to take mandatory classes and have time to study. So this raises the question, why spend so much time doing a sport and not get paid? According to Enno, “These athletes are practicing on half of the day and going to
Although this is logical a division one scholarship is about $25,000. Divisions under that have less scholarship money. As stated in an article, “A $25,000 scholarship may seem like a lot of money, but it really cover the basics. IT covers thousands of dollars in mysterious unknown universities fees, tuition, housing, a meal-plan, and multiple hundred-dollar textbooks” (Hartnett 1). Even though scholarships cover lots of survival needs. What about clothes, transportation, and money for extra things. Scholarships aren’t a good excuse not to pay the