Payton Watterson Mr.Lawson
English 2
20 December 2016
Should College Athletes get Paid? College athletes need the money too! All college athletes need money to help them get stuff to get them through college, and life. Also in some cases, some college athletes are already starting their families, so they need the money to help support their family. College athletes need to live like everyone else, and what does everyone need to live, they need money. This is the backfire of paying college athletes, they would rather have their minds on money instead of education. Some former players are turning to lawsuits to try to dismantle, in their thoughts an unfair system that generates billions, but still only get a scholarship for …show more content…
Also if they get paid they won't have to get extra jobs, when they should be doing class work. Once again it comes to a point where it's all about the money and not the education. This is why most college athletes don't have good grades, so they constantly have to be in tutoring. “ "Everything we do is scheduled around football," he said, suggesting that advisers warned him away from classes that might interfere with the football workload.”In the quote above, it says that classes interfered with football, so that means they are not participating in the classroom. College players won’t have to worry about money if they get paid for playing a college sport, and that means more room for class …show more content…
In which the NCAA might have problems with paying college athletes, so regardless of the evidence that is positively biased about paying college athletes.NCAA may not be able to pay college players regardless of situations. A concerned Congress has held hearings looking into the Congress probably won’t pass a law that allows payments to college athletes.NCAA's tax-exempt status.Congress is concerned about the NCAA, with their financial stability. So college players might have to get extra jobs until NCAA is able to pay.
NCAA has the highest, percent rate of graduation which is 81%. So college athletes are getting through college without the payment of players, but if college athletes did get paid, college would be a lot easier. The NCAA national average is 81 percent. The 2013 graduation success rate for Big 5 football programs was 71 percent, a historical high; for basketball, it was 73 percent, one point off a historical high. College athletes are graduating without the payment from the NCAA.If college players were to get paid, the percent rate would go