Should Student Athletes Be Paid? Essay

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    Collegiate Athletic Association. It’s a non-profit association that regulates and organize athletes of 1,281 institutions; conferences; organizations; and individuals. They were founded in 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt after threatening to get rid of football if things weren’t changed to make things fair. President Roosevelt’s dream still hasn’t come true because coaches, administrators and athletic directors get paid millions of dollars to coach and be mentors to these players. But the players don’t get

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    Tyson Hartnett says, “Contrary to what all the opponents believe, being an athlete is a full-time job. On a typical day, a player will wake up before classes, get a lift or conditioning session in, go to class until 3 or 4 p.m., go to practice, go to mandatory study hall, and then finish homework or study for a test.For a little extra money to see a movie or go out to dinner once a week, my freshman roommate worked a job at the university, earning about $7/hour. He would work his butt off all day

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    Whether or not student-athletes should be paid has been a hotly debated topic since the 1900s. College athletes spend just as much time, if not more time, practicing and devoting time and energy to sports as they do academics. For this, many athletes are rewarded with scholarship money. However, many people believe it is not enough. Should we pay student-athletes a slice of the wealth or is a full-ride scholarship enough? (Business Insider). What if the athlete gets injured? Where does the money

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    college level student athletes should be paid has been receiving close review in the last few years. Proponents to the idea of paying student athletes argue that competing at such a high level interferes with academics and that they deserve to be paid; however, the athletes themselves are the ones who decided to undertake the tremendous commitment that comes with playing sports in college. They should not be paid because they are already being paid in the form of scholarships, and paying student athletes

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    I have been following the argument of whether student-athletes should be paid. Currently, many collegiate athletes feel that they are not properly compensated for their efforts and money generated. The NCAA is clinging to the notion of amateurism and what it means to the state and competitiveness of the game. With the ever-increasing money flow and a heightening amount of scandals and lawsuits the NCAA has reached a point where they need to pay the players or exterminate all impurities and reach

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    Student athletes should be paid to play for the college level. Athletics is something that takes time and energy, it is a job to them. Sports can be seen as a hobby, but if you do it in a way that it feels like you can make it big, then it should be seen as a job. Athletes spend countless hours outside of studying for school, practicing and making sure everything is perfected. People come from all over the world to watch a beloved school play many different types of sports. Everything must be perfected

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    A Second argument that supports paying college athletes, is that colleges allow advertisers, arena operators, concession owners, athletic gear manufacturers, retailers, game companies, and media moguls, along with coaches and university officials, to make millions of dollars off of college football players and the college football players received nothing. Student-athletes are prevented from profiting from their name and image. The NCAA makes billions of dollars selling the rights to televise games

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    compensating student athletes has become a popular subject of debate within the media. Deciding whether or not to pay student athletes may seem simple at first glance; however, further research into the debate reveals many economic studies that provide persuasive information benefitting one side over the other. Paying student athletes would be more economically efficient and to not allow payment would be considered price fixing, also this would reduce the negative externalities faced by the student athletes

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    Wake up in the morning go to class, have lunch, go to some more classes and then off to work before back to your dorm. This is probably what you picture when someone says average college students life. Well, what about; wake up at 5 am and go to the weight room, practice from 6 am to 8 am, classes from 8:30 till 12 pm. Lunch but, only from the food court. Then classes from 2 pm till 7 pm. After classes, you go to the gym to workout then over to the team facility to watch film. Then at 10 pm, you

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    Do you believe that it’s fair for student athletes to have a requirement to pass in school to play a sport? Athletes should be required to make good grades to play a sport because it helps the athlete learn responsibility, it makes it fair for the following teammates , and it will make the athlete study harder. To begin with, this requirement will help the athletes learn responsibility. For example, when the student knows that they have to make good grades they will begin keeping up with their work

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