why college athletes should be paid
Heather Surface
English 110
30 October 2013
It’s time to pay My topic is about why ALL college athletes of every college sport should be paid some sort of money. Now a days in the collegiate world of sports, colleges and Universities are generating millions upon millions of dollars through the athletic programs. From football all the way down to the golf team. Yet, the people who bring these millions of dollars in aren’t getting paid for it. I’m speaking about the athletes. The athlete’s adults and even children have come to know, love and cheer on every single game, get not once dime from the revenue the University brings in. It is time to start paying collegiate athletes. I plan to write this as a purpose to argue and show people the facts on why collegiate athletes should be paid for what they do. Support facts that college officials of the NCAA have to say and reasons to back each and every one of those up. For my first point, is the money generated and how it’s not fairly distributed. The players BRING the money into the Universities all by themselves. Even in some cases, one single player alone can bring in close to 100 million dollars alone. For instance, Johnny Manziel, quarterback for Texas A&M University football team. He alone brought $59.3 million dollars into the athletic program in 2012, from ticket sales, people buying his jersey on and offline and other miscellaneous items. Not one penny did he receive from NCAA but the NCAA will gladly let the Texas A&M dean build a new 34 million dollar library from that money he brought to the University. People come to see Johnny Manziel play, that’s a huge part why almost every game is sold out on a weekly basis. Just to see one man play. I feel personally as if a University has that type of caliber in a player as they do in Johnny, why not pay him some of the money the University gets OFF of them, I’m not saying millions but I’m saying a good amount, after all. For my second point, I
English 110
30 October 2013
It’s time to pay My topic is about why ALL college athletes of every college sport should be paid some sort of money. Now a days in the collegiate world of sports, colleges and Universities are generating millions upon millions of dollars through the athletic programs. From football all the way down to the golf team. Yet, the people who bring these millions of dollars in aren’t getting paid for it. I’m speaking about the athletes. The athlete’s adults and even children have come to know, love and cheer on every single game, get not once dime from the revenue the University brings in. It is time to start paying collegiate athletes. I plan to write this as a purpose to argue and show people the facts on why collegiate athletes should be paid for what they do. Support facts that college officials of the NCAA have to say and reasons to back each and every one of those up. For my first point, is the money generated and how it’s not fairly distributed. The players BRING the money into the Universities all by themselves. Even in some cases, one single player alone can bring in close to 100 million dollars alone. For instance, Johnny Manziel, quarterback for Texas A&M University football team. He alone brought $59.3 million dollars into the athletic program in 2012, from ticket sales, people buying his jersey on and offline and other miscellaneous items. Not one penny did he receive from NCAA but the NCAA will gladly let the Texas A&M dean build a new 34 million dollar library from that money he brought to the University. People come to see Johnny Manziel play, that’s a huge part why almost every game is sold out on a weekly basis. Just to see one man play. I feel personally as if a University has that type of caliber in a player as they do in Johnny, why not pay him some of the money the University gets OFF of them, I’m not saying millions but I’m saying a good amount, after all. For my second point, I