Professional Athletes Should Be Paid

College sports have a big market on the major school levels. These major schools can bring in 30 to 40 million dollars per year to the school through the athletic programs. The players get none of this share of money even though they are the ones who have to put themselves at risk during these tough games that provide the school profit. You may say that these college athletes are getting a free education at their choice of university but some many say they should get paid. Today as much money that runs in and out of these schools there is a huge controversy to whether or not these student athletes should get rewarded for their hard work on and off the

He gets paid $7 million dollars, not the highest on the team. Eric Gordon, who is nowhere near as good as Anthony Davis gets paid $15 million dollars. (Smith, Steven A. "No Matter How Much They Make, The Best Players In The NBA Are Vastly Underpaid." FiveThirtyEight. 2015. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.)I think the best player on every team should be paid the most. Not the third or fourth best on every team should be paid the most. Tom Brady, Super Bowl 49 MVP. Got paid less than his Tight end who hasn't won an award in his career yet when Tom Brady has won 5 awards. 3 Super bowl MVP and 2 League MVP. (Smith, Steven A. "No Matter How Much They Make, The Best Players In The NBA Are Vastly Underpaid." FiveThirtyEight. 2015. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.) If you have won your team 3 super bowls, you should be paid the most. The person who has won 1 award. Aaron Rodgers the MVP of the National Football league in 2014 was getting paid $11 million dollars. Randall Cobb a 2nd string wide receiver got paid $20 million dollars. (Smith, Steven A. "No Matter How Much They Make, The Best Players In The NBA Are Vastly Underpaid." FiveThirtyEight. 2015. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.) If you are a second string wide receiver is getting paid more than your MVP quarterback. Than that is bad for your

Athletes are overpaid by their couches and businesses just for playing in their team’s games and doing commercials. Even after they retire they still make more money than they work for. They are paid millions every year, Shaqeel Oneel made enough money that he could hire builders to make him a full sized basketball court in his basement. Furthermore, Peyton Manning makes about 700 thousand after he retired. Most athletes don’t know how to handle that much money a pro football player bought a Ferrari even though he didn’t know how to drive. Another pro NFL player spent 30 thousand dollars on earrings. Some pro athletes know how to spend money a few athletes invested their money in companies. Other athletes donated to charities and other organizations. Few athletes do

One reason for this is that there are many obstacles that evolve once we start paying college athletes. An example of one of these obstacles would be that not all institutions would have the financial capabilities that big name schools such as Clemson, Oklahoma, as well as USC. Furthermore, how would schools such as Indiana State, Marshall, or Western Michigan be able to provide equal salaries to their players in comparison to Top 25 teams? (Reed, 2016). Another obstacle would be paying all NCAA athletes, it is no doubt that football and basketball generate much more revenue than sports such as swimming, golf, as well as baseball. The only way to solve that would be creating a national plan that all institutions and sports would have to follow. The Huffington Post made an argument and posted a possible solution by stating, “let athletes benefit from their fame and likeness”, and “If the local auto parts store wants to pay a college athlete to sign autographs for two hours during a store sale, why shouldn’t the athlete be allowed to take that opportunity?” (Reed, 2016). The article also went on and made the comparison between coach and athlete. NCAA coaches are allowed to accept endorsement money, therefore that should not differentiate when it comes to the coaches’ athletes. Another argument that The Huffington Post made was that, “Music students in college are free to accept cash or gifts for playing a weekend gig at the local club. What makes athletes different?” (Reed, 2016). The purpose of this argument being made is that students involved in activities other than those sports connected to the NCAA are allowed to profit from their skills and talents while athletes are

College athletes should be paid and coaches should not be paid multimillion contracts. College athletes work really hard as they try as hard as they can to try to get noticed more to get into the professional league. Even though the NCAA makes 1 trillion dollars and it all goes to the professional leagues and to the college coaches the college teams still don't get paid. When a top tier basketball or football players plays it generates $200,000 dollars for their school and nothing for them. Their coaches get millions of dollars per year for their contract and the players get no money from any of those choices.Olympians that go into the olympics get paid for some reason. Olympian Kyle Snyder got money for winning and got 250,000 while setting

College athletes should be paid because, they work hard. A typical division 1 college football player devotes 43.3 hours per week to his sport -- 3.3 more hours than the typical American work week. Bradley Roby a cornerback for the Ohio state buckeyes says "Definitely, man, how these colleges are running football programs nowadays is just like the NFL," Roby said. "I feel like it’s just like the NFL.” On the con side they are saying that college athletes shouldn't be paid because they are making money on autographs, endorsements, jobs, and control of their image and likeness.

College entertainment has become more widely known in today’s society. College athletes these days are bigger and stronger than there were in the past. Knowing a former athlete one might say that most people do not realize the pressure and stress college athletes face every day. College athletes, being the size they are today, make a more high risk of injury. They play a great role in university revenues depending on their performance. Sports also play a great role in our economy such as the NFL, NBA, MLB, and the NH which are professional sports that are allowed to receive a set paid salary rate making millions each year, doing the same they did as college athletes. So why not pay them? Many people do not realize the pressure college athletes are under all school year and in the summer. When a player takes on the challenge of committing to the responsibility of being part of a program and representing a university, it becomes is a full-time job. Collegiate athletes have to make sacrifices, good choices, and maintain their promises to their team and to uphold requirements of them in the classroom. Collegiate sports entertainment has been the world’s fastest revenue source in history. College sports are televised on network stations in America. College level sports bring in billions of dollars every year. Although people argue that college athletes should get paid compensation because they lack the time to pursue jobs, they are the source of most of the schools

Many college athletes help their school receive revenue, but that doesn’t mean these athletes should get a percentage because of their contributions. ESPN wants us to view college athletes as if they are in training for a job or working for an unpaid internship (Hadaway). If college athletes were paid, college sports would be abolished forever. Paying these athletes would only benefit them; therefore, these players should not be paid. Professional and college sports should keep bold and straight line between each other.

According to Allen Sack, athletes are already essentially paid to play, by getting to go to college for free, but they also deserve the same rights and benefits as other employees, which could include medical benefits, workers’ compensation when injured, and the right to build financial security for their family while in college, and the denial of these rights is morally unconscionable (Sack). It does not make sense that college athletes are not paid because these athletes are the sole reason for popularity in the college athletic apparel market, which brings in millions of dollars a year, yet college athletes do not see a dime, even though they are the reason for sold jerseys and other apparel. Even worse is the fact that college athletes are prone to getting injured and a rising star with a great future ahead of him or her can have their contract (scholarships) canceled once a school realizes that they will no longer be bringing value or money to their school. Of course, this sounds cruel, but it is the reality for some college athletes, and it is an option that must be extinguished because not only do regular students deserve reassurance and stability, but college athletes do

If a player decides to and is good enough to go pro then they can have nothing and get paid even bigger money at a pro level. Some former college athletes like Ed O’Bannon quotes, "I've said a million times that players aren’t asking for millions of dollars a year," he said. "Just a couple of dollars to take their girlfriends to dinner and a movie."(Maxwell Strachen) Is that to much to ask from a multi billion dollar company using the athletes images and likeness to make that money? Currently a study at drexel university showed that the NCAA made more that 700 million dollars on the televised portion of sports alone. For example, selling their rights to be broadcasted from the NBC sports channel and many other channels that broadcast the sports programs. Currently a petition is being passed around from all sorts of colleges and is being signed by more than 300 college athletes that sign their name on that paper because they believe they deserve some form of a pay cut. All college athletes that wish for a bit of the pay isn’t even being ridiculous about what they are wanting some teams that maker farther than other teams still do not make as much money as them, for instance, the Louisville Cardinals made somewhat close to 40 million dollars in revenue as the Arizona Wildcats made it farther in the NCAA tournament and they only made a disappointing 17.7 million dollars. The image of a school means everything now a days. and the players are the ones representing the product and selling the tickets and drawing sold out crowds to arenas and the only thing they have to show for it is no money in their pocket and exposure. College athletes are some of the most top of the line athletes in the world. A law was passed that high school students could not get drafted into a professional league right out of highschool. They must attend at least one year of college. To me that sound like a scam to get top of the line athletes into the

I think that teachers, doctors, firefighters and law enforcement should get paid more than professional athletes. I think this because teachers provide education for people who want to become something like a professional athlete. A teacher educates people. Doctors and firefighters help people and even save people's lives. Also they all have to go and pay for college a lot longer than a professional athlete would have to. Being a professional athlete does not have very many benefits. If anything it is a more risk of getting hurt. It is entertaining for some people to watch and

If I could pay someone $25 million a year to get him/her on my team and generate $30 million, why not hire that player? The salary cap for the NFL is $102.5 million per team, and we currently have 32 teams, so we the public are paying 3.28 billion to those teams. Currently America is in a 11 trillion dollar debt, if athletes could get paid $150,000/year then we could save 1 billion dollars a year. The monetary worth of athletes exceeds the value that any one individual is actually worth. League officials should be using salary caps, negotiations, and legal tactics. Athletes' salaries are in increasing problem for the economy of our modern world. Although the sports have their own equal distributions, the overwhelming salaries of the leagues' highest paid players have made the average of salaries higher and higher each year.

Lewis Hamilton recently signed a new contract with Mercedes that will earn him £671,000 a week. Just let that sink in: £671,000 a WEEK. Wouldn’t it be great to earn that sort of money for simply driving a formula one car round a track 50 times in 19 different races? Lewis Hamilton and thousands of athletes around the world take advantage of our willingness to reward the fame and ridiculous amounts of money for what is, eventually, a non-eternal pastime: sport. But do sportsmen and women really deserve all that money? Many others and I think absolutely not. Professional athletes are making staggering amounts of money in a society where salaries and wages should be based on the value and difficulties of ones work. Furthermore

That means the professional athletes make about 4 million more dollars than teachers do. An athlete will be able to do their job for a couple of years, if they have no injuries. A teacher, though, could do their job for nearly their entire life. So why should athletes make so much more money than teachers, even though they are playing for such a short portion of their life. In just one year, a teacher will make 0.01% of what professional athletes make. In one hundred years teachers will make the same amount of money as professional athletes will in one

Every year player's salaries reach new highs. Athletes are treated as celebrities in American society and idolized by young athletes. The kids who see what their favorite player is doing through the media also are being influenced by them. The example that professional athletes set is very important because they looked up to. The example that many athletes set is unfortunately a negative one. Most people think that athletes make too much money but there are those that believe they are paid fairly. The enormous amount of money that professional athletes receive is having a negative effect on kids today. Athletes should