Student Athletes Get Paid

College itself is difficult because students have to learn the material and then master it so that they could succeed and reach their ultimate goal, but imagine how much time a student would need if they go to school and on top of that they have to juggle playing a sport. College students who do both are called student athletes because they are students and athletes. On average, a “Division I spend about 40 hours a week on athletic activities,” and on top of that, if full time students, they would spend an average of 15 to 18 hours in class (New). The sport they practice could be seen as a full time job because they devote a great amount of time and dedication to this, yet they do not receive a salary. The people who do not support the idea
Since they devote a large amount into the sport year round, they are unable to get a job and therefore only live off the money that they could obtain from scholarships or from their parents. For example, college football games such as the USC vs UCLA match attract a large audience which means the schools are getting a lot of money from the entrance sells. Just like professional athletes, student athletes must practice and therefore deserve the same right to get paid, but if they do get paid, it takes away the purpose of becoming a professional athlete because they would not strive to become professional since they get paid from playing in college. However, many people believe that the athletes should get paid because they think it is unfair that they make spend a lot of time, but people also argue that they should not be getting paid because they are not professional
Department of Education” (Gaines). The fact that Texas A&M made about 192.6 in one year has people thinking what the school does with that money and why they do not give it to the students in the form of of payment. Even though pay the atheths would be difficult because not all of the sports teams from different schools make the same amount of money, people still believe it could be possible. Paying the athletes could help them out financially and this would not only benefit the athlete but also their families. For example, in the article Progress forward? An Analysis of Whether Student-Athletes Should Be Paid by Christopher M. Parent, shows how a University of Southern California student athlete that came from a low income family could have been benefited from the sport he played if he would have gotten paid. Since the only money he received was from the Pell Grant, he would give the leftover money “from school to his family” in an effort to help them out (Parent 227). While he was starving with now food in his refrigerator, “on the USC campus they were selling [his] jersey, making money off of it” meanwhile he could not “afford to