Athletes-Students?

My topic for this research paper is “Should College athletes get paid for playing a sport?” My implied audience for this topic would be athletes, coaches, athletic directors, and NCAA coordinators. I will inform them why college athletes should get paid for what they do day in and day out. Also, I will show how playing a sport is the equivalent to a full time job and since athletes usually do not have enough free time to get a job than they should receive some spending money. As stated by Robert McCormick, "There are more demands put on these young men than any employee of the University” (Cooper 10).
The questions that will arise from this topic would be “How much money should they get paid?”, “Should some athletes get more than others depending on how good they are?”, “Isn’t receiving a scholarship basically like getting paid?” Not only should they receive money from their school they should be able to use their talents and publicity to make money as well. If they are so good at what they do and have worked their whole lives for it then why should they not be able to benefit from it? I am a direct stakeholder in this topic because I am a college athlete myself. When you play a sport in college, it is basically a full time job. You have to balance your school work with practices and competitions. Hopefully soon I can show some people why athletes should be paid for competing at the collegiate level.
Section 2:
The question as to if college athletes should get paid or not has been around for a while but I do not think the NCAA has come to the correct conclusion. Currently, under their rules, college athletes are not allowed to receive any monetary benefits from being a collegiate athlete because you are only an amateur. In being a college athlete myself, I know how much time and work you have to put into your sport with practices, competitions, and mandatory study hall, it is basically like a job. If I could have time for a job it would give me a lot of extra