Summary: College Athletes Should Be Paid

Imagine two completely different students. Let’s call them Norman and Ed. Norman is a hard-working student that has six weighted classes in his schedule for his senior year, forcing him to take at least three hours a night out of his week because of studying and homework. He is in the top three percent of his class of seven hundred and thirty-five. However, not being a good test taker, he recorded a 26 on his ACT. That moves us on to the second student, Ed, the athlete of the school. Ed, has an awful work ethic when it comes to academics. In athletics, however, he is the hardest worker in his school, maybe even his district. He puts sports in front of everything, except hanging out with his friends. If he doesn’t keep his GPA above a 2.0 he …show more content…
They receive scholarships that often include full rides. So if we agree to pay them on top of their education costs that they are already receiving, they will potentially be receiving a large sum of money annually. It is their choice to get involved in the college level sports, and we, as a nation, should not have to compensate students for participating in an extracurricular activity. Students that would be compensated for playing college level sports would create controversial problems. Is the All-American Quarterback for the football team going to get paid more than the star of the women’s basketball team just because the football team brings in more revenue? Compensating student-athletes would bring numerous controversial questions like this one. This would lead to creating inequality within our schooling and within our nation. Most people that want student-athletes to be compensated argue the fact that many of them bring in revenue for their schools, and they should be compensated on how much they bring in. The problem with this argument is that college athletes already get paid based on how good at the sport they are. The better athletes will get paid more than their lesser colleagues with the tuition scholarships that they

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