Paying Student Athletes

Intercollegiate sports have been around for over a century, but the popularity has increased dramatically over the last several decades. College football and men’s basketball have been the most successful of them all, drawing in the best high school players from not only the United States, but those from around the globe also. Without a successful developmental league in the NFL or NBA it falls upon the NCAA to prepare these young athletes for a pro career. The NCAA has no reason to complain about being the primary “developmental league” for the NFL and NBA because they generate a tremendous amount of revenue through lucrative contracts and endorsement deals. Student athletes have seen this and have started wanting some of the profits. Paying student athletes is not needed because the primary focus of going to college is to get an education, most other students have to pay for what they get for free, and the majority of college sports don’t generate enough money to pay student athletes.
These are costs that most other students have to pay, whether it be through grants, working multiple jobs or even worse saddling themselves down with student loans that they will be stuck with paying off for years to come. Frank Kaminsky, the starting center from the University of Wisconsin 2015 National Championship team and 2015 Naismith Player of the Year is from Lisle, Illinois.(RealGM.com, 2015) The University of Wisconsin’s Office of Student Financial Aid (2015) the cost of out of state tuition there would be about $40,000 a year or $160,000 for his four years there. Honolulu, Hawaii’s Marcus Mariota played college football for the University of Oregon (NFL.com, 2015). According to The University of Oregon’s Office of Registrar (2015) the price of out of state tuition would be close to $44,000 a year. If you were a student without a full scholarship It may not be possible to