College Athletes Should Be Paid
College sports has become a huge factor in sports. The problem is we don’t pay college athletes like we should. If you were to play college lacrosse you would make no money. Most college lacrosse games you bring more people then you would in a professional game. College lacrosse players should be paid because they bring a lot of sponsors and people pay to watch lacrosse games but where does all that money go?
Most of the money just goes to the school. Why wouldn’t they pay the players who are bringing all the money in? In almost all sports such as basketball and football there is so many fans. It is almost like going to a professional game. Football games bring 121 million dollars a year. That includes sponsors and all the fans paying for games. It is truly unfair to see these athletes bring the school so much money and not get paid. If they received some compensation for the hard work, …show more content…
this corruption would gradually lessen because the need for money would lessen. Colleges decided to let athletes get jobs while in season. This doesn’t make sense though because how are they supposed to work while doing a full time Division 1 sport.
Basketball is also another sport bringing in a lot of money.
March madness was a huge college basketball event and it brought in over 900 million dollars. That is insane to me and for the players bringing in all that money you can’t even pay them a dime. The players are almost being used. If they are bringing that much money in and entertainment they should be getting paid. The NCAA is taking advantage over the college kids. They are treated horribly by the NCAA. College sports wouldn’t exist without these athletes. College athletes still have almost the same amount of fan base as the professional sports. It is unfair how the players don’t get a bit of revenue after all their hard work and sales they bring. Basketball is one of the leading revenue for the NCAA. The NCAA and other organizations will even put a college player’s name on a jersey, hat or other sportswear and never send a penny to the player. College athletes deserve financial recognition for the merchandise profit they generate, as well as the opportunity to pursue their own financial
gains. Most of the athletes feel like it’s very unfair to them to not only not be able to get a job while in college due to their commitment to their sport but to also bring in so much money without anything given to them besides the ability to play for a college. We should take care of our athletes and we should at least give them the respect to get revenue from jerseys with their name on it. They don’t even know half the time if their name is on a shirt or penny. These companies are stealing their name to make profit. How is that fair you say? It isn’t, it is completely unfair for the players and it’s been a constant battle the players have.
Most of the money just goes to the school. Why wouldn’t they pay the players who are bringing all the money in? In almost all sports such as basketball and football there is so many fans. It is almost like going to a professional game. Football games bring 121 million dollars a year. That includes sponsors and all the fans paying for games. It is truly unfair to see these athletes bring the school so much money and not get paid. If they received some compensation for the hard work, …show more content…
this corruption would gradually lessen because the need for money would lessen. Colleges decided to let athletes get jobs while in season. This doesn’t make sense though because how are they supposed to work while doing a full time Division 1 sport.
Basketball is also another sport bringing in a lot of money.
March madness was a huge college basketball event and it brought in over 900 million dollars. That is insane to me and for the players bringing in all that money you can’t even pay them a dime. The players are almost being used. If they are bringing that much money in and entertainment they should be getting paid. The NCAA is taking advantage over the college kids. They are treated horribly by the NCAA. College sports wouldn’t exist without these athletes. College athletes still have almost the same amount of fan base as the professional sports. It is unfair how the players don’t get a bit of revenue after all their hard work and sales they bring. Basketball is one of the leading revenue for the NCAA. The NCAA and other organizations will even put a college player’s name on a jersey, hat or other sportswear and never send a penny to the player. College athletes deserve financial recognition for the merchandise profit they generate, as well as the opportunity to pursue their own financial
gains. Most of the athletes feel like it’s very unfair to them to not only not be able to get a job while in college due to their commitment to their sport but to also bring in so much money without anything given to them besides the ability to play for a college. We should take care of our athletes and we should at least give them the respect to get revenue from jerseys with their name on it. They don’t even know half the time if their name is on a shirt or penny. These companies are stealing their name to make profit. How is that fair you say? It isn’t, it is completely unfair for the players and it’s been a constant battle the players have.