Analysis: Why College Athletes Should Be Paid For Playing

Do you want to get paid for playing a sport in college? (http://www.experienceproject.com/question-answer.php) College players should receive some payment for playing for their schools. College athletes put their bodies on the line each game they play, paying college athletes would help to begin creating a sense of financial awareness, (https://smartasset.com/retirement/should-student-athletes-be-paid ) and some athletes don't have enough money to pay for food or stuff they need and with the money they have left over they can buy things.

     College athletes are not forced into playing the sport that they have devoted their time to during their years in secondary education. They continue to play into the college level for their love of the game.

Nine days till Christmas break. Just nine long and exhausting days separating us from sweet, freedom and our own lovely beds! Have you ever thought about how crazy it is for us to be so desperate and excited for a break? We just had one! Thanksgiving was a quick tease for our soon long month of, lets be real, sleeping and Netflix. Thanksgiving was full of food, shopping, sleep, and football. Even if you’re not a huge football fan your Thanksgiving was in some way affected by America’s favorite sport. Whether it was watching your team play, or watching some family member going crazy at the TV, my dad…. Football is a traditional part of our day of thanks. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be playing in one of those games on

Another problem is that college athletes do not have any money for themselves. What if they need new shoes, groceries, gas, want to go on a date or anywhere other than school? They are not able to do that. You also have the athletes at community colleges whose room and board is not even covered. They are recruited from another state and have to pay for housing and food and transportation with no assistance. Just last semester, I heard one of the coaches at my school telling two young guys where they can go get food boxes. I guess they should get jobs right? A full-time student spends about fifteen hours a week going to class. Then, they have to workout/train and go to practice or their game, which is maybe another twenty to forty hours per week. It is nearly impossible to find an employer who will work with a schedule as inconsistent and limited as an athletes’. We hear the same “rag to riches” story from athletes all the time. These students have parents barely making ends meet, which means that they are also probably not getting a monthly allowance from their parents. They are relying solely on these games to get them to a place where less than four percent of college athletes will actually make it. (Manfred)

In conclusion, college athletes deserve to be paid for what they do. College athletes are dedicated to their sports. They are doing this to make a living, also to get an education. They have wants and needs. They deserve to be

College athletics are incredibly popular today. College athletics bring great things to colleges around the United States. However, there have been problems that come with college athletics. There has been a huge discussion lately over if college athletes should be paid. College athletes put a lot of effort into their sport, earn money for their school, and skip many days of school. However, some of the lesser sports don't earn the big money that some sports make for the school, athletes would all pick one school depending on the salary they earn, and colleges already provide full scholarships towards students.

With debate on whether or not to compensate the college athletes in monetary terms due to the students’ sports talents help their various colleges to receive awards both rewards and cash money, it is important to look at criticisms of the National Collegiate Athletic Association with regards to the association’s advertisement deals of approximately more than a billion shillings profits yet no athlete is being compensated for his or her hard work. That according to Zimbalist (2013) is because the critiques are using the very developments to argue in favour of the payment of the student athletes since the opportunity for education and exposure to earn a professional contract is enough compensation since the cost of paying the student athletes would be too high.

Athletes are sometimes overworked because coaches and colleges think they need to practice all the time. College athletes go through grueling practices, meaningful games and practice over 40 hours a week (Kahn). These athletes spend too much time practicing to work on actual college class work. Athletes are more of an employee than a student with the amount of practice they have. These players do not have enough time to do it all. “the schedule is akin to a full time job, with 40 to 50 hours a week devoted to football-related activities”(He). Football players, whether it is practice or not, spend way too much time doing football activities to get homework or other school related things done. Sports are a big part of these kid’s life but it should not be their entire life. Athletes will have nothing to fall back on if colleges work them so much with practices and not enough with school. Having all of this practice time may not help them prepare for the real life after college. All that colleges would have to do is have the sports teams focus a little bit less on practice time and maybe a little bit more on actual school. College students need to be prepared for life after college and practicing all the time does not

The question has been tosses around for a while now. Why should college athletes be paid? They should be paid only if the college can afford it. What this means is that if a division three college can only afford to supply scholarships to athletes that’s fine, but the problem comes in when division one colleges make millions and millions of dollars along with the NCAA while athletes only get scholarships around $40,000 dollars. Another example of inequality is that coaches not just colleges can be made multimillionaires within one season of coaching. One example of that is University of Kentucky Coach John Calipari.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a business that keeps expanding while the players it supports make nothing. This year the NCAA announced that they are on the verge of reaching the one billion dollar mark in annual revenue. Last year they pulled in an astonishing nine hundred and eighty nine million dollars. Most of its profit growth comes from the division one men’s basketball tournament, which accounts for eighty to ninety percent of their success. With all this incoming profit some players feel as though they are entitled to a piece of the pie. There are currently lawsuits pending and some players have even gone as far as attempting to unionize. Although they are receiving scholarships and get a lot of other assistance,

This scholarly article by Debra Blum attempts to legitimize the argument that athletes should be compensated for their hard work from the perspective of former Duke University player Dick DeVenzio. It describes his struggle in day to day life and shows that players need to receive compensation to survive. This source provides primary source evidence for my argument.

“I’ve been writing about this issue for several years now calling for college athletes to be paid the wages that they deserve and am sad to acknowledge that very little has changed since I was a college athlete at UCLA, so poor that I and most of my teammates could barely scrape by. But just as with every injustice, wrongs don’t get righted unless we keep raising our voices again and again. So, once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more” (Kareem Abdul Jabbar Guardian Par 2). They fail to acknowledge how much our college athletes work and how we fail to even give them a single cent for how hard they work for their respective schools. The Guardian talks to Kareem Abdul Jabbar about his views on the recent controversy about how the schools

Student athletes devote hours of time in universities all around the United States every year. They play many different sports, everything from water polo to football. It is really hard to be a college athlete for many reasons. These athletes play their respected sport multiple times a week, traveling a lot and miss many classes, which makes it much harder for them to take care of the education. The question, “Should college athletes get paid for playing their sport” is asked regularly. This has been a common argument over the last couple of years, and it seems it is here to stay. I wanted to find out what the people at Campbell think about that, so I went around campus and asked people that question. I asked 40 people, 27 said that they should get paid and on the opposite 13 people said that they should not get paid. I think that they should get paid. Athletes put their body on the line and some of them even make a huge amount of money for their schools.

To play college football you need to be dedicated, because it is just like having a full time job. College football players are constantly working on their game and improving their skills. Before the football season starts, the workload for these athletes are about 50 to 60 hours of training per week. That is crazy compared to what a normal student works with a PAYING job. A college student works about 20 hours per week on average. When the football season begins the workload is 40 to 50 hours, and they have to manage their time with school. These players barely get any breaks, but when they do it is only for a couple of days. NLRB said, ‘’while these players are allowed to leave campus for several days before Christmas, they must report back by Christmas morning.’’ Furthermore, after the season spend many hours on weight training and preparing for spring and summer practices.

There are conversations about how football and basketball players should be paid, that’s the basis of pay-for-play, but if you pay the boys you have to pay the girls as stated in title XI. If things aren’t as equal as possible the NCAA simply wont allow it. They would have lawsuit after lawsuit if colleges weren’t able to spread the wealth to everyone, man or woman it has to be equal. It’s that simple.