The Importance Of Paying College Athletes Get Paid

Can you imagine what it would be like if college athletes got paid? I could, especially with the help of this new article I read, written by Veronica Majerol for The New York Time Upfront. I chose this topic because I thought it would be interesting to know why they aren’t paid. I would say that they should be.

So some reasons I think that college athletes should be paid are that some college athletes are unhappy with the title unfairly placed on them: amateur. College athletes should be treated as professional athletes. Their games are on T.V., and so are the professional ones. If the NCAA wanted college athletes to be considered as “amateurs”, they shouldn’t have the games that the athletes play on television. Now anybody can see them, and maybe even mistake them for professionals! I bet a lot of people would agree with me.
Others might say that college athletes shouldn’t be paid because scholarships cover everything for school. Although, the scholarships often forget to cover everything. They cover most, but often do not fully cover meal plans, which can leave even a full-scholarship athlete in a mountain of debt. They might also say that not paying college athletes is the proper thing to do because it isn’t like they are on a professional sports team. I would say otherwise. College sport are not technically considered ‘professional’, but they should be. Awesome players, working together on an awesome team, against other awesome players, working together on another awesome team. Combine that with the fact that their sports are on TV, and it sounds professional to me, and probably to a lot of other people