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College athletes should be paid to play!
In this essay you’re being persuaded, you are being persuaded to agree that college athletes should be played to play. Here there is some information that will help change your mind if you don’t agree with this already. This essay will talk about the athletes not being able to pay for many of the things they need, they haven’t got any time for a job, the athletes bring in money to there schools, and more.
The college athletes should be paid there are many reasons that these people think they should be paid and here is why. Many athletes in the past and present have been bringing in attendance and money to the university. Patrick Ewing former NBA Star went to college in Georgetown and he brought in $12,000,000 Profit, i’m pretty sure that this was back when Ewing played back in the ‘70s that should be over $17,000,000 now. A lot of these college athletes such as Andrew Luck, Anthony Davis, Jared Sullinger, Robert Griffin III bring in tons of money for their university, people want to see these young college athletes play. Most of these athletes on big time teams put on amazing performances and bring the university millions of dollars, these athletes get paid a quarter of a million dollars at the most. The big time colleges now such as Kansas, Kentucky, Baylor, Duke, Michigan St all basketball, and Alabama, LSU for football grab millions of dollars each year. The athletes for those teams such as Austin Rivers, Anthony Davis, Thomas Robinson, Jeremy Lamb, Andrew Luck, and many more get scholarships worth $250,000 at the most. Another reason people believe that college athletes should be paid is because some athletes are not getting paid from what others are benefiting from. It is obvious that big companies benefit from unpaid athletes. "The video game business is a multi-billion dollar industry that uses college athletes in games without giving them names or credits"
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