STUDENTS ATHLETES

Students Athletes: Questions Answers

Students Athletes

Should school athletes get paid to play?

There are many sensible reasons as to why college athletes should be paid. These athletes are only seeing what everybody else is getting. College sports bring in cash trough ticket sales, merchandise, fees for playoff appearances. When items such as jerseys with their numbers on them are being sold, it can be viewed as unfair because the athlete doesn't receive any of that profit. Their school's take in an extensive amount of money from corporate sponsors, and the coaches are paid millions of dollars, while athletes don't get any of that money. These athletes put in a lot of effort through hard practices, training, while they receive an education at their college. It is also known that the NCAA rules limit the jobs college athletes have. An athlete cannot hold a job paying him/her over $2000 during the year.

How is it fair that they put in all the risk, with no reward?

There are many reasons why paying college athletes would not be getting a reward. When going into a college for a sport, students receive scholarships which pay for most, if not all of their necessities anyway. Scholarships enforce the student athlete to keep their grades up so they can keep this money given to them. These students are already getting free meals, merchandise, and exposure so why add more money? College athletes should not be paid because it is not their job to play in a sport. They are in college which means they are getting an education while entertaining themselves with a sport. They are students playing a sport in college, not professional athletes. It is not their career so they should not be paid as if it were one. Another reason why paying college athletes is not a good idea, is because the differences in salaries will cause more problems. It will be strong to work out how much these players obtain, why they obtain what they do. Questions of who is getting paid more and why, will begin problems. Also, it may bring dismay to smaller schools who cannot necessarily afford scholarships to being in the best "stars" to attend their college.

With all the time and work they put in, shouldn't they obtain something?

Many collegiate athletes put as much if not more time into their sport as they do in their school work. There is has been an ongoing argument about this for a while and there are many for and against it. The People that are for paying the athletes say that the athletes create millions of dollars for the school and should see some sort of compensation for the time and effort that they put into the sport that drives that money. The people that are against paying the athletes say that the scholarships that the athletes receive are payback enough.

To be able to play a sport in college an athlete has to have at least 12 credit hours a quarter on ...