Analysis: College Athletes Should Get Paid

Joe Johnson attends the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a straight A student and dedicated football player who earned a scholarship because of those virtues. Last year, he averaged 171 passing yards, 42 touchdowns, and helped his team win the championship game. If asked, his teachers and coach will have nothing but great things to say. After practice, Joe goes home to a two bedroom apartment where he lives with his single mother and two younger brothers. Hungry from practice, he sits down to eat the meals that his mother so lovingly prepares for her children but struggles to make because of the lack of income. College athletes like Joe should be compensated because legally college players cannot make money from their

Did you know that the average men’s basketball fair market value per player is $289,031 per year, and they don’t get not a thing from it, isn’t that crazy. This is very unfair because if the college athletes have to play their best even when they're sick or hurt and who is the real winner the NCAA because they’re the ones that get the money. College athletes should be paid because they work so hard in the classroom and it the gym because they have to do double what everyone else does. They need money to live because when you’re a college athlete you don’t have time for a job with your tight

“College football and basketball players are promised an education in exchange for playing on the team” (Zimbalist). Andrew Zimbalist, professor of economics at Smith College, is co-author of "The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball”. Andrew states this fact to emphasize the situation that some argue that college players shouldn’t be getting paid. Typically, the people who feel this way are either coaches, players or the parents of the players. If the college players were to get compensated this would be fair for various reasons. School is in place for you to get an education; playing a sport is considered as an extracurricular activity. In a similar sense college is for expanding your education possible future

College athletes should be paid monetarily as well as with scholarships. Colleges are benefiting of big time players by selling their jerseys without their names on it to avoid paying the athletes but the NCAA looked silly “when Jay Bilas, a veteran ESPN analyst, former Duke basketball player and vocal critic of the NCAA, took to Twitter to point out that although schools cannot sell a player's jersey with his name on the back, if you typed Manziel into a search box on ShopNCAASports.com a No. 2 Texas A&M jersey pops up, available for up to $64.95. (Manziel wears No. 2.) (Davis).”Since college athletes can not get sponsorships their name can’t be on the jerseys that are sold to the fans even though you could still find their jersey by looking

Imagine being one of the best employees working for a billion dollar industry, but despite that, you aren’t paid. That is the reality for college athletes, who should be paid for their athletic ability. In the United States, four hundred thousand athletes are part of the NCAA. Yet, none of the athletes are paid. College athletes should be paid because they make the events possible, and those events generate billions of dollars in profit.

Since the rise of popularity in college sports gave way over the past fifty-sixty years fans of college sports and the athletes have been debating over whether or not the college athletes should be getting paid for playing or not. This debate really started when colleges and other business started making money off of college sports, for instance college basketball which makes a billion dollars a year and since then players and fans have been asking why they weren’t getting a piece of the pie. Since then the topic was soon split into two groups those who are for players getting paid and those who are not for players getting paid this debate has been going on for many years now and is not only a topic that fans

How have sports changed to the point where there is serious discussion around paying college athletes? Universities and athletic coaches make millions on the backs of their players. So the question is, are our college athletes properly compensated? After reading both articles by Paul Marx and Warren Hartenstine I have come to the conclusion that college athletes should not be compensated beyond their athletic scholarships. Many students are fully compensated for tuition, room and board, books and private tutors. These services are valuable in countless ways. They allow students to pursue both their athletic and academic dreams. Further compensating college athletes would lead to an unfair advantage and is unjust to other students.

A very long debate in college sports is if the athletes should be paid. Author Jared Walch, talks about both sides of the issue, but later in the article it seems he sides with the argument that they should be paid. In the beginning of the article, he talks about why the athletes shouldn’t be paid. Walch first argues that this is all a choice for the athletes. They choose to put themselves in harms way of possible injury and not every athlete gets injured. Another argument that the author discusses is how to pay the athletes. Who pays the athletes and how do you distribute the money? The two programs to bring in the most money are football and men’s basketball. Women’s golf athletes are still college athletes. So even though they don’t make as much money, will they still be paid? Most athletes are already at school for scholarships. If you already have everything paid for by the university, what more would you need paid for? The author later goes into the morality and how paying the athletes would take away some of the entertainment of watching college athletes play. Towards the end of his article, Walch

Many kids dream of being collegiate athletes, one must wonder if all the work is worth the risk. Student athletes all around the world are having fun doing what they love and receiving a free education in exchange for their God-given talent, but at the same time they’re all at the same risk to be injured and forced to pay for their medical expenses on their own. Not only would they be forced to pay for their medical expense but there is a great chance at the same time they’re paying their medical bills that they would lose their scholarship and all that they have worked for their whole entire life. UCLA running back describe his collegiate life as “Congested and tiring”. Collegiate athletes should be compensated! Everyone all love to watch

The American dream of making a living in sports at both the collegiate and professional level grows each year. The youth of today’s society strive to join the ranks of the professional athletes they worship, and college is the beginning of that dream. Over the past few decades, college athletics have gained immense popularity across universities in the United States. Intercollegiate sports bring in a surplus of revenue to their respective universities as well as build a reputation for the college. Athletes attending Division I sports go to their particular schools in hopes of fulfilling their dream of making it professionally. There is a long-debated argument on whether college athletes at the Division I level should be paid to attend school

What would make a college athlete eligible to receive payment for playing any sport? Would they have to play a sport that brings in plenty of revenue to the school? I conducted a survey asking several people around campus the same question, “Do you think college athletes should be paid for their performances?” Some of the interviewees said yes, because network and advertisements profit from them, the threatening conditions their bodies endure, and the amount of time and energy it takes to be a student-athlete. Some interviewees said no, because it is not their career and the athlete chose to play the sport, most athletes are already being compensated for their performances, and a lot of athletes receive an enormous amount in refund, so

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is an organization of colleges and universities that are dedicated to the well-being and lifelong success of college athletes (“What”). The NCAA’s website states, “The NCAA was founded in 1906 to protect young people from the dangerous and exploitive athletic practices of the time” (Treadway). So much has changed in the world of college athletics since 1906. For instance, the Title IX law was created to insure the equality of men’s and women’s sports. More importantly, television networks have begun paying schools large amounts of money for the rights to broadcast their games on television. It was recently announced that NBC Sports will pay the University of Notre Dame an average of fifteen million dollars per year for the rights to televise the Fighting Irish’s home football games (“NBC”). Inevitably, with all of this money being paid to the colleges and universities, a discussion has begun about the possibility of paying

A billion dollar industry based off of not paying the men that make them the big bucks. College sports have been in the limelight lately because of how the players do not make a dime of what they brought in. This documentary shines the light on many subjects that have been put in the dark corner so everyone can forget about what really happened. They really leave the hard part up to the viewer on if college students should be paid for what they do or not?

Throughout my high school athletic career, playing both football and running cross country, i’ve witnessed multiple teammates of mine receive scholarships to continue their athletic and academic careers at a university. However due to the disproportionate number of hours spent on the sport rather than academics without receiving compensation is causing many high school athletes to turn down athletic scholarships and instead begin to focus on their academic futures.

College athletes should be being paid for the work they do. First, being an athlete takes up all of that person’s day, combining it with being a full-time student as well as all of the athlete's days are taken up either going to class or going to practice. When an athlete has this sort of schedule it is hard to find them a job to work at to pay for college. College athletes do have scholarships, but “A full Division 1 scholarship is $25,000 per year.” (Huffingtonpost) is not enough when you add in all students needs like housing, food, clothing, entertainment, books, and the fees for just being in a class. The scholarship money suddenly disappears. When athletes are under this timeline they can not work so they need to earn money somehow, mom and dad are not always there to help you out.