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    Should College Athletes be reimbursed for Their Efforts? My fellow classmates‚ there is an issue that must be presented to all of you. College athletes: should they be paid for what they do? The answer is simple: yes college athletes should be reimbursed for their efforts. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) basketball athletes are being treated like slaves. They do all of the work‚ they might get a little reward‚ but they usually get nothing. Why should college athletes get paid

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    With college athletes practicing and playing in the games‚ the National Collegiate Athletic Association‚ the NCAA should be paying their college athletes to play. College athletes spend the same amount of time on their sport as a full time job‚ college athletes are struggling to make ends meet‚ and a salary would help the athletes to manage their money. For all that they do these college athletes definitely deserve to be compensated for what they do. These college athletes spend an average of 43

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    College sports has become a huge factor in sports. The problem is we don’t pay college athletes like we should. If you were to play college lacrosse you would make no money. Most college lacrosse games you bring more people then you would in a professional game. College lacrosse players should be paid because they bring a lot of sponsors and people pay to watch lacrosse games but where does all that money go? Most of the money just goes to the school. Why wouldn’t they pay the players

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    It is no secret that one of the most talked about topics in the world of college sports‚ especially football is the rule of the school transfer. As of right now‚ the rule is if a player decides they want to transfer schools they are not eligible to play immediately‚ the player must sit out one year and then the following year they become eligible to play the sport. This is the rule for every college sport‚ however‚ it is most talked about in football. This is problematic because it causes players

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    Since it seems like the universities and NCAA are unwilling to examine their case college athletes are taking matters into their own hands. At a Northwestern University‚ a Division I college in Chicago‚ these players became tired of not receiving any compensation aside from their scholarships and they made a decision that made the NCAA realize they were serious. They were aware that suing for compensation could be a losing battle they took the next step. What these players decided the best thing

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    Should College Athletes be Paid? How many times have you heard of college athletes being paid under the table or receiving gifts from the school they play for? How many times have these players actually deserved what they received? Many college athletes struggle to juggle their academic and work schedules. On top of that‚ college athletes need to dedicate themselves to a busy practice schedule as well. Why shouldn’t they be compensated for their time dedicated to helping their school?

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    Should College Athletes Get Paid To Play "Should College Athletes Get Paid To Play" Forget about the game-winning touchdown‚ forget about the cheerleader girlfriend‚ and forget the pageantry. What about the hard earned money college athletes will never see and earned? In the world of college sports its win or go home‚ and to the winners go the spoils. Most successful college sports teams rake in millions of dollars in revenue. Steve Spurrier‚ the coach for the Florida Gators signed a six year

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    Argument for Paying College Athletes Stephen Elting Mercy College Have you ever heard of a business that made billions of dollars‚ yet did not pay their employees? Seems pretty remarkable doesn’t it? Well this business is known as the NCAA. According to an article in the New York Times‚ the NCAA made $770 million from just the three-week Men’s Basketball Tournament‚ but how much did the athletes who participated in said tournament receive? If you said zero

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    The first college sporting event was in 1852. It was a rowing competition between the Yale and Harvard rowing teams. Since then college athletics have grown into multi-million dollar industries. In 2008 the University of Alabama made the most money with their athletic program – making a total profit of $123‚769‚841. The athletes themselves did not receive any of the money the school made on the sales. College sports are also widely watched online and on television which allows additional people to

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    Paying College Athletes This problem with paying college athletes has been introduced in lots of courts throughout the years. The question where these millions of dollars should go. Should all this money go into paying college athletes for the sports that they play in college? They play these sports and help build a good reputation for the college that they attend‚ but the answer for whether to pay them is simple. I do not believe that college athletes should be paid in college. This might be

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