Compensation For College Athletes Essay

Compensation for College Athletes Athletes have to be dedicated to the game they play. Dedication means something different to each person; it is how the person responds to adversity that makes all the difference for when they play again. When student athletes have to practice they must be committed to their sport. This means student athletes must make their sport their second full time job, their first full time job is their schooling. Division 1 football players spend 43.3 hours a week practicing, and basketball players spend 39 hours a week practicing. All of the dedication goes unnoticed, however all of the university employees and school programs make money off of the student athletes hard work and dedication. All college athletes should be paid a portion of all revenues, which can accumulate over a billion dollars that are either donated by boosters, merchandise sold, ticket sales, and TV franchising. The common argument to college athletes being paid is that they are “Student Athletes.” Taylor Branch the writer of The Shame Of College Sports agrees that the NCAA makes “Student
It has been in the news that some college athletes have generated funds illegally by selling their own memorabilia (Wilbon 1-2). This is against the NCAA rules and regulations; It is ridiculous that college athletes cannot sell items that belong to them. In the article titled, Should College Athletes Be Paid? Huma once a college athlete stated, “I got by taking toilet paper and soap at hotels, and taking out credit cards. Huma also had $6,000 dollars in credit card debt when he graduated from UCLA (1). To think that college students cannot afford daily living expenses is unbelievable when that specific student generates thousands of dollars of money for the