College Athletes

College sports have been around for many years now. Many college athletes have come and gone, playing for their respective school. Before, college athletes would participate in college sports for college spirit and to represent their school. In today’s time, many NCAA Division 1 college games are being televised and promoted by the colleges themselves. According to U.S News “The NCAA, as a whole, makes 6 billion dollars annually”. Many colleges also have wealthy supporters who spend lots of many on sports programs. Do you ever wonder where all that money goes? I know for fact that college athletes get no part in all that money. College students, whether they are an athlete or not, need money to get them through college. College athletes should
Little is known how these sports programs are funded and how they are supported financially. Majority of people would guess that the school pays for all the sports programs and most of that is true. What some people do not known is that a lot of the Division 1 colleges have what they call “boosters” or wealthy supporters that give money to the colleges. Much of the money provided from these supporters is used for sports programs for such things as uniforms and equipment. Division 1 colleges spend the most money on sports programs like football and basketball because they are more popular. The games for these programs are also nationally televised throughout the respective season for each sport. Most of these college athletes get treated like professional athletes with all the publicity and treatment they get within their respective sport. If these college athletes get treated like professionals, then why shouldn’t they get paid like professionals? Many athletes help sell jerseys by performing well, so shouldn’t that money go to the athlete instead of the college? The NCAA profits a lot by televising sports games and how do we know if any of that money goes to the colleges? Now I’m not saying to pay the athlete large sums of money, but the colleges could always pay tuition for student athletes. Andrew Sharp, writer for Grantland, claims “Allowing players to make money on
This topic has been touched many times by the NCAA and it has also been suggested towards the United States Congress. There has not yet, however, been any progress in favor of college athletes. Many of the college athletes who do not make it to the pros are left behind to finish school and many will have a college debt to pay after. I think it is unfair that the college athletes left behind get nothing in return for helping many of their teammates make it to the pros. Robert Litan, blogger for the Wall Street Journal, argues “How fair is a system in which athletes…bring in the money and share a relatively small slice [of money]…” (Wall Street Journal). This topic will float around for years to come and who knows if college athletes will ever get a compensation for their hard