Should College Athletes Be Paid a Salary
Being a college athlete is a stressful and tiring job to maintain. Student athletes’ schedules are filled with sports and school work , with little to no time for anything else.They barely have any time to make money legally outside of school. Most college athletes do not have any money to spend on things such as late night snacks, movies or other inexpensive things and entertainment. Really the only student athletes that have additional money to spend are the ones whose parents are wealthy and could provide them with money to spend, however most kids are not that fortunate, which is why colleges should pay their student athletes. College athletes should be paid not only because …show more content…
(college athletes finally getting some cash)(Isidore).By paying college athletes a little salary it will give them enough money for extra things that they want.They deserve money because they dedicate more than half of their day to their sport and school .When the college athletes do have time off they would like to go out to buy a movie or get a snack . They can not do that with no money. So by getting paid they will have money to have that stuff. There salary is not even anything major If they were to get paid their salary would be 2,000 - 5,000 a year (college athletes finally getting some cash).that is not much but that's just enough for little things that they would like to get or do since they have little to no time to do what they want. College athletes are televised every saturday and have social status on video games and still don't get paid.”University of chicago study notes that growing demand for larger tournaments and more televised games”(College athletes should be paid for their participation )(Point) . The college athletes have all their social information out in the video games and are televised every saturday with no pay. I see this as unfair because professionals that are on video games and are televised do get paid but why not college athletes? If they have all their stuff out for the