College Athletes Should Not Get Paid

College Athletes College athletes generate billions of dollars for colleges every year. Despite this fact, they do not receive any money. They only receive very little money from colleges via scholarships, or just enough to make a living in college. However, people argue that scholarships is not all the “money” athletes should receive during their college career. Considering the fact that athletes bring in billions of dollars a year for colleges, many people are starting to ask questions and form opinions on how the money should be divided. Certain people argue that college athletes should get paid. On the other hand others believe that the athletes already receive enough money from colleges via scholarships. Almost every college athletes
attend colleges via scholarship. The terms and rules of a scholarship states that as long as the student athlete keep their grades a certain average, and continue to play sports, that the college will take care of everything. Many people argue that the scholarship is their pay. However, even though college athletes get a grant, they still don’t receive enough to support themselves (Bargaria). Most of the athletes spend most of their time working on the sport anyway. The athletes spend like forty hours on practicing, training and competing (National College Players Association). These hours are equivalent to the amount hour of a full time job.
These type of hours prevent athletes to being able to work on school. Many colleges even have restrictions on how many hours players can work, if they was to find time to get a job. If colleges can dedicate how much and when athletes can work, so why athletes shouldn’t get paid for their time? Often times, scholarships pay for housing to meal plans. “Paying for athletes is unnecessary” (Bargaria). If it wasn’t for college athletes, how would colleges get their money for sports? If colleges was paying college athletes, they have raised enough money for tuition, and colleges could also drop less profitable sports. These sports are like tennis and golf. People don’t really pay attention to these type of sports. On the other hand college football boys generate billions of dollars. Then the basketball season bring in millions of
dollars. Where is all the money going if it’s not going to the athletes?
Technically speaking they did earn it after all. College boards should really take that in consideration. Even though some teams win championships, rings and titles doesn’t mean that there are going to have no worries about getting through school. Anyway, the average college scholarship doesn’t cover the average cost of college. Eventually since some prices go up every day or tax, the athletes are not going to be able to support themselves. Another important reason athletes should get paid is injuries. An injury can end an athlete career. Approximately 70,000 college athletes get injured (Web). College athletes provide endless hours of hard work and dedication to entertain spectators, and also win games. Often times this “entertainment” is one of the causes of their injury. In some extreme injuries can cause paralysis. They do all this hard work just for a couple of dollars a month. If a college athlete is on a scholarship then that mean they going to be having to put in hard work all year for four years straight. People expect so much from athletes but the NCAA is not to pay
them. To me colleges should be required to cover any injury that the athlete suffer. The NCAA does not require colleges to pay for injuries, it’s optional. At some universities, the athlete has to pay for medical bill out of their own pocket. How is they supposed to pay if they don’t have enough time to get a job? If athlete gets injured playing that sport, that the college should pay for. That should be one of the requirement. Being a student-athlete at a university is not easy. The College Board should also take that in consideration as well when deciding if they should pay college athletes. They still put in the endless hours. I plane to be one of them college athlete one day, and if I get hurt I hope I don’t have to pay out of my pocket. Then that leave me a little bit of money to eat, or if I wanted to go out with my friends I can’t do to the fact that I had to pay my medical bills. That also leads up to debt, if you have to borrow, and keep borrowing every day when you are broke. Then eventually you gone sign up for credit cards and start swiping. NThe college boards should think and put themselves in athlete’s shoes. Then probably they well see how athletes see the whole situation. They need to realize the hard work and dedication the athletes put in. Then they probably would reconsider their decisions if college athletes should get paid. ow your credit bad. This all can be prevented if colleges just pay athletes, or pay for medical bills, because that is very important.