College Athletes Paychecks
Are We Handing Out Paychecks for Hobbies?
We often look at college athletes as miniature stars. The question is, why should student’s athlete get a paycheck for playing amateur level sports? Athletes complain about how they do not get enough for playing a sport. They are forgetting that they are being rewarded with a half or full scholarship. The main goal for these athletes is being academically successful. Not who has the best jump shot or who fumbled a ball, that does not matter. The essence of playing college level has been taken out of place, now replaced with the mindsets of professional athletes. Did they forget? You are not professionals. The love of the game has been through extortion for the love of money. Paying college athletes will lead the students astray from what they attended the institution to accomplish in the first place, that is, to earn a degree, not to gain a compensation.
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Many would also say that college sports exist not to make a profit, but to create a community between the different universities. Throwing money at the players would change the mindset of the players making them think as if they are professional players, changing the amateur status. Another big problem with this is, not every college sport is considered as popular as football and basketball. “It’s unfair and wrong to pay football and men’s basketball players because they participate in a sport that generates millions of dollars in revenue but does not pay the thousands upon thousands of student-athletes competing for their schools in other sports” (College athletes shouldn’t get paid). Will all college athletes be given a paycheck? “There is no system of payment that can be put in place that is fair across the board for all students, all sports and all schools that participate in college athletics” (Jackson). These things can only result in
We often look at college athletes as miniature stars. The question is, why should student’s athlete get a paycheck for playing amateur level sports? Athletes complain about how they do not get enough for playing a sport. They are forgetting that they are being rewarded with a half or full scholarship. The main goal for these athletes is being academically successful. Not who has the best jump shot or who fumbled a ball, that does not matter. The essence of playing college level has been taken out of place, now replaced with the mindsets of professional athletes. Did they forget? You are not professionals. The love of the game has been through extortion for the love of money. Paying college athletes will lead the students astray from what they attended the institution to accomplish in the first place, that is, to earn a degree, not to gain a compensation.
Some may say it is a full-time …show more content…
Many would also say that college sports exist not to make a profit, but to create a community between the different universities. Throwing money at the players would change the mindset of the players making them think as if they are professional players, changing the amateur status. Another big problem with this is, not every college sport is considered as popular as football and basketball. “It’s unfair and wrong to pay football and men’s basketball players because they participate in a sport that generates millions of dollars in revenue but does not pay the thousands upon thousands of student-athletes competing for their schools in other sports” (College athletes shouldn’t get paid). Will all college athletes be given a paycheck? “There is no system of payment that can be put in place that is fair across the board for all students, all sports and all schools that participate in college athletics” (Jackson). These things can only result in