College Athletes Should Be Paid

Imagine a star of a college basketball team. They take their team to the championship game and win the game. Their jerseys are selling like crazy and their school is bringing in millions of dollars off of their work. In any other situation they would be a millionaire with a fancy house and car. But not if they are a college athlete because they don't get paid. Even though their school made a lot of money off their blood, sweat, and tears they still don't get paid one penny. There is no doubt that college athletes should be paid. They should be paid because they work hard and put their bodies on the line, they would make college sports more competitive, and they also bring in hundreds of millions of dollars.

College athletes should be paid because they work hard and put their bodies on the line every game. For example in a 2010 football game, a Rutgers university player was injured on a kickoff and it turned out that he was
Even though some people think that paying college athletes would make the game less competitive, even more people think it would make it more competitive. According to expert Joseph M Sofio, says ¨ Paying college athletes would encourage athletes to stay in school longer and not leave for a professional career.¨ That is very true. A lot of the great college players usually leave college after their freshman year of college to leave for a pro career. They do that because in college they don't earn anything but in the pros they earn millions of dollars to help provide for their families. The athletes would work harder to get paid more money, also they might get endorsed by a company or a product. Also if the NCAA paid its athletes, the athletes wouldn't have to stress about how they are going to get money so they could focus on their sport even more. They could put more energy into their sport to make the NCAA more