Analysis: Why College Athletes Should Not Be Paid

The topic I chose is “Why are college athletes not being paid for playing sports in college while others around them are?” College athletes are like other professional athletes only thing different is they are one level under professionals and they are not being paid. The athletes are not being paid for their entertainment, but they are doing just about everything a professional athlete is doing such as being on television, playing on holidays, and being exposed to the media. This topic was chosen because I want to address the similar things both professional athletes and college athletes have in common because at the end of the day if this situation was vice versa, then the media would be wondering why professionals are not being paid, but college players are. Both College Players and Professional players should be paid because they both have the same effect on the world.
In the United States, there
Todd Gurley a formal running back from the Georgia Bulldogs football team is an example because he broke the rule of receiving money from a fan for his autograph on a jersey. He was suspended from the lead indefinitely later he went back to playing and after that year he got drafted into the NFL where there are not any rules like the NCAA. All of this relates to my thesis because coaches, pro players, and NCAA players all get contracts, but some of them are different to the point that the NCAA does not want college athletes to be paid in no way. Also this explains how an incident happen to a player just because he broke the NCAA rules.
College Athletes are basically being used by the NCAA and all the NCAA is thinking of ways why student athletes should not be paid. In the article for the case for paying college athletes it basically explains the reason why the NCAA haven’t decided to give athletes any type of