College Athletes Should Get Paid

College athletics gain more and more attention each year, causing revenues in the National Collegiate Athletic Association to rise immensely. This ongoing debate strikes the media’s eye whether or not college athletes should get paid. With a simple response, the answer is no. Although each student athlete is helping the school gain revenue, student athletes should not receive any share in the profits.
One main dispute throughout this common argument is that schools can most definitely afford to pay their student athletes. However, that is not true by any means. “Many people are not aware that most athletic departments actually lose money year after year trying to fund programs. Out of the 120 FBS (formerly named Division 1) schools, …show more content…
Time Magazine continued to do a follow-up story on Manziel’s statement, “It’s time to pay college athletes.” The controversial topic seemed to quiet down for a length of time before Manziel’s statement. A media monstrosity broke out reopening the conversation. Touching back to the idea of fair pay to college athletes, it is not possible. The NCAA shut down the argument right away due to that exact reason. Scoop Jackson, an ESPN journalist, recognizes the valid points the people are speaking, such as it’s not fair that players are out there doing the dirty work while the school is profiting from it. What the people need to realize is that these schools are in fact a business, and it all does not revolve around college athletics. (Jackson n. pag.). Each athlete must sign a contract prior to entering the university/college stating that the school will in fact profit from his or her efforts – no different from a professional athlete signing a contract (Jackson n. pag.). To the athlete’s that believe he or she deserve to be paid must have not read over his or her contract where it obviously states that there will not be any sort of profit benefited to the players from the sport of choice. There are too many questions without firm answers to overrule the decision of the NCAA. If compensation to athletes would occur, how does a university decide the pay, …show more content…
In 2011, it was reported that $871.6 million in revenue; eighty-one percent of that comes from television and marketing fees. Sixty percent of the NCAA’s revenue is distributed to the different schools to help support the departments and for scholarship purposes (Morgan n. pag.). College football is the leading candidate for producing the most revenue in the NCAA, following men’s basketball. Texas University’s football program benefitted ninety-five million dollars in revenue leading the entire NCAA. For basketball, typically the top fifteen college basketball programs generate around $293 million (Morgan n. pag.). Sitting down and looking at the numbers gives an understanding as to why some college athletes feel the need to be paid, like Johnny Manziel. Bleacher Report took a survey asking America what our opinion is on the whole debate. With roughly 500 votes, 79.1 percent of the people decided that college athletes deserve to be paid, opposed to the 21.1 percent that disagreed (Scott n. pag.). However, the NCAA does not agree with the people and to do what it believes is right. Every time this debate strikes the media’s eye, the same decision is made – the correct one. It does not matter how many people believe that college athletes deserve to be

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Should College Athletes Get Paid?

Should College Athletes Get Paid