Why College Athletes Should Get Compensation Imagine spending hours and hours a week working as hard as you can at a very hard task and getting almost nothing in return. This is what college athletes go through when they voluntarily play for their school. More of their time is spent on their sport per week than on education. Some of the college sports require very hard mental and physical work that could possibly result in a future career. Also collegiate sport organizations have millions to
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Wages Many people have different opinions on the salaries that professional soccer players receive. Cristiano Ronaldo‚ who is currently the highest paid footballer in the world‚ gets paid $82 million per year. There are some that would argue that he does not deserve that much money for being a athlete. Professional football players do not get paid too much because the teams are private businesses so they can pay their players what they want‚ the players put in tons of hard work‚ and they bring in revenue
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Colleges get millions of dollars for their sports departments but how much do the athletes get out of it? Athletes are some of the hardest working people out there and they deserve to get paid for their work on the team. There are many reasons why athletes should get paid. They spend all the time with the sport but some never go pro so there was no point to their hard work. Because athletes don’t get paid some have to turn to illegal sponsoring. Biggest reason is that the athletes play the game but
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College Athletes Get Paid to Play “It’s Time for College Athletes to Get Paid”‚ an article written by AJ Enno‚ examines college athletics are a key source of income‚ and they attract students to their colleges. The article states‚ universities depend on their athletes to produce and maintain the popularity of their school’s name. He acknowledges college athletes are supposed to be the best of the best on that level‚ so this is why they should get paid. Enno also states‚ college athletes make enough
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Although some may disagree about athletes getting paid more than 10 million dollars they do hard work for that money. I think that they should not be paid almost 10 million dollars because that type of money can go to homeless people and kids they can go to kids to get their diploma to go to college and get a good job. Ten million dollars could go to buildings that are needed. In my opinion is i think it should go homeless people more than anything cause they could have been through a lot. For example
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College Athletes: To pay or not to pay? After being established in 1905 with the help of former President of the United States‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ the NCAA has become on of the most profitable organizations in America. The NCAA makes approximately 11 million dollars from CBS alone for just the three weekends of March Madness. Many other college sports bring each of their respected programs millions upon millions of dollars each year. This is why college athletes have must be paid a salary by the
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think it is unfair that athletes get paid more than doctors‚ teachers‚ policemen‚ and firefighters . These people are putting their lives at risk and helping people while athletes are just playing a game ! I think that professional athletes should get paid less money. Don’t you think that it is unfair that athletes get paid more money than teachers and doctors because I know I do. To begin with Athletes get paid a bunch of money just to play a game. Athletes are getting paid a whole bunch of money
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Many people believe that college athletes deserve to get paid while many other believe that they should not. While there are many common arguments why college athletes should not get paid such as they are on scholarship‚ they are amateurs‚ and paying college athletes would ruin college sports. College athletes should get paid and there are various reasons why they deserve some form of monetary compensation. The typical American work week is said to be 40 hours‚ “while the typical division 1 college
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College Athletes Shouldn’t Be Compensated Some people‚ like one of our classmates named Isaac Harris‚ believe that college athletes should get paid. That isn’t how it should be‚ though. College athletes should not receive compensation anytime soon because they already get paid‚ every college students will want compensation‚ and college athletes simply get to live the dream. First off‚ college athletes already get paid. They get paid in a way that many others wish they could. They get paid with something
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Honors 6 April 2017 Should College Student Athletes be paid? The topic of whether or not student athletes in college should get paid has gotten increasingly larger each year. Lots of people say they should get paid to play their respective sports while lots of people say they shouldn’t. Even though The athletes knew they only get what they sign for in their scholarship offer and should not seek anymore‚ college athletes should get paid because some don’t get big enough scholarships to cover the large
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