Should Student Athletes Be Paid?

Everyone feels the excitement in the night air, the lights beating down on you, thousands of fans coming out to watch their favorite team battle to take the win. Kickoff, and it begins, the start of your college career and the beginning of the second and most important half of your life. As you manage your time and spend it wisely on both your free education and being an athlete, school feels like a breeze as you walk around campus as one of the big dogs in town. People may think that it is difficult to play a college sport and get career studies, but it isn’t impossible through new college programs for athletes to come. There have been recent studies to try to help improve college athletics throughout universities. “Offering an associates bachelor’s degree would place more emphasis on academics, and give the student-athlete more in return for
A famous NFL player Richard Sherman says,” Student athletes are not given enough time to get their school work done.” Students who participate in sports should be given more time to finish all of their work as they have a timed schedule of practices that they can’t miss. Teachers should know that athletes have busy schedules and have little time to plan out when they can do their homework. Students shouldn’t be given any extra privileges, but rather more time to get their work in on time. This would assure the university and professors that the student athletes are getting their work done in a timely manner in order to keep their grades up and keep up with new lesson plans.” No I don’t think college athletes are given enough time to take advantage of their free education that they are given,” (Sherman) as a man who has been in this same situation through college and is now in the pros, agrees that student athletes aren’t given the time they need to fully accomplish their school work and take advantage of the free education that they are given and have