Analysis: Should College Athletes Get Paid

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Should college athletes get paid to play? That’s the question that has been going around the college world today. College athletes would love if they were able to get paid. College athletes should receive small payments just to help out with the small expenses in the college world. Today college athletes play at a very high level. They put in more than half of their time playing the sport they love. After all that time is put in they have to study for up and coming test in their class. After studying they have to get ready for work to pay off student loans and pay to eat later. Then when all is finished, they are left with a few hours of sleep and they do it all over again the next day. With all the things in that day it seems like they're working a full time job without pay. …show more content…
It covers thousands of dollars in mysterious, unknown university fees, tuition, housing, a meal-plan and multiple hundred-dollar textbooks. Some players, if they come from a low-income household, get a few hundred dollars each semester from Pell Grants which enables them to buy chicken soup instead of chicken-flavored ramen. Chicken soup will not satisfy an athlete for a long period of time. After months of eating the same thing you will be sick of it. Money is needed to buy extra clothes for the change of seasons, to buy essential needs, to buy gas to from place to place.” People will get tired of the same food everyday. We would like to branch out and try new things. In order to try new things in college you need money. The NCAA is holding that money away student athletes and giving millions to the