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    Athletes Shouldn’t Get Paid 58% of college coaches think that there athletes should get paid for playing sports at the college level. Even though they are marketing athletes on merchandise‚ athletes should not get paid because they are student’s first and athletes second. Colleges don’t have a huge budget for paying athletes and the students are required to go to school. The students are at the age where they won’t budget the money and they will waste all of it. They are already be taken care

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    Schooled is a documentary about if D1 college athletes should be paid even if they have a full ride scholarship. I think that if athletes can’t buy or afford things outside of school that they should be provided with money to do so. If these colleges are earning revenue off of these athletes‚ but the athletes themselves are seeing none of it. Not being able to do things outside of a sport like get a job is harder on kids who don’t have a full ride because they also have to pay for part of their tuition

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    .For years‚ professional athletes have made millions of dollars due to salary and endorsements. Many average working people think that athletes should make as much money as an average person.Many think athletes do not do enough to make as much as he or she does while these athletes are out each day working hard to make ends meat. Professional athletes should make more money than an average person One reason athletes deserve their pay is because of the entertainment they bring to the world .The

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    College students athletes should get paid Could you imagine if college athletes would get paid? College athletes that play sports everyday and don’t have time to get a job and do their academics. Most college athletes that play football or basketball and if they win a championship they bring millions of money back to the college. If you go to college and play sports like basketball‚football you should get paid for how long you stay in college for the sports before you go pro or drop out. Because

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    19 November 2014  The College Athlete Fight: Should College Athletes Be Able to Take Profit for Their Likeness?  The NCAA profits over six billion($6‚000‚000‚000) dollars annually(USnews.com).  However‚ college athletes never get to see any of that money. Though some may argue that they  risk career­ending injuries each time they come onto the field or basketball court‚ this still does  not influence the mind of the NCAA to start paying the players in any way. But on the flip side  the students do get a qua

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    Classes. Game time. Stress. College athletes have a plentiful amount on their plate. Not knowing where money would come from adds more on top of school and sports. Paying athletes would eliminate stress. The NCAA refuses to pay athletes‚ but it’s not that they don’t have money. They have billions of dollars off of capitalizing‚ ticket sales‚ and team winnings. So why don’t they pay players? College athletes should get paid because their sports are jobs‚ paying would make sports more competitive

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    Tuesday‚ Thursday 02-14-2013 Argument Paper Time for Change in Amateur Sports College athletes are held to a high standard‚ to act‚ perform and live like professionals. Why not pay them like professionals to? Sure you don’t have to pay them as much as professional athletes but there are a lot of reasons why student athletes should get paid rather than just the scholarship itself. When fans watch these student athletes play there is a major profit in money that the NCAA gets from the millions of people

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    There are thousands of athletes getting paid millions of dollars for just playing a season of basketball‚ football‚ baseball‚ and etc. While nurses‚ firefighters‚ police officers‚ and the military are risking their lives for complete strangers. Some people think that these athletes deserve more than they do right now. I personally think that they don’t deserve what they are getting. Look at it this way‚ people are actually risking their lives‚ fighting for our country‚ and trying to keep us safe

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    lawyers also makes for a potentially sticky situation as the athlete becomes older. As a young‚ collegiate athlete focused on sports‚ the student potentially misses out on opportunities to build their resume with employment and skills. They also might not take advantage of other aspects of the university‚ such as internships in their major or classes on interviewing. The reason behind this is potentially two-fold: university athletes do not have the time or focus to devote to skills that will extend

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    gone too far? Bill Lee thinks it has and so do many other baseball fans. There was once a time where a father could go to the ballpark with his family for $10 and see their favorite Yankee play‚ but now things have changed. For a family of four to go see a Major League Baseball game it will cost them anywhere from $200 to $250 to sit in tight‚ compact seats‚ while trying to watch the same man as everyone else is. People ask why professional athletes get paid too much; it’s because we allow it. What

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