Should Student Athletes Get Paid

When deciding to play a sport in college, that sport eventually becomes one of your main focus. Being an athlete is not an easy thing because college athletes spend hours of practice and keeping their grades up. So it is nearly impossible for them to get a job. Without a job, these athletes have no guaranteed money coming in so they can pay for financial stuff. Many people argue, “Oh they have athletic scholarships”, but it does not cover all costs incurred from registration to graduation. The athletic scholarship is only a one-year agreement that can only be done by the coach or the universities. College sports brings in millions of dollars for the college athletic programs from television, advertising contracts, and donations from sport boosters.
However, compared to the revenue college programs earn, student athletes receive in return is very small. Mark’s article also argues that players put in full work towards their sport and there’s not much time for a job or even school work for them and they still don’t get paid., while coaches earn millions of dollars every year. So here is the point, if the NCAA, coaches, and athletic directors can earn huge amounts of money from student athletes, shouldn’t student athletes earn money as well? It would be nice if their scholarships would just give them a little spending cash as a way of thanking them for their effort, because without them the college athletic programs would be nothing. College athletes should get paid for playing because they spend most of their time toward their sport, it will keep more players in schools, and it will pay for more than just