Why Should Student Athletes Be Paid?

Student athletes are constantly given rules and regulations that they must follow to be college eligible. One of those regulations is a required education GPA based on the schools division and student body. There are many schools that have allegedly ignored this regulation and allowed athletes that did not meet the requirements to play at the college level. Preferential treatment among student athletes is a major problem for the NCAA.
Universities set standards that all students must follow. So when these standards are not followed it devalues the degree that the students are receiving. The degree would look less valuable if you have fake classes or you have an academic department that is changing academic matters and record. This is a problem
Sports programs create income for the university, so the way to have a better sports program is to have competitive athletes and compete in championships. Some of the best athletes are not academically inclined, so schools accept them as special admits because of how they perform athletically. Athletes receive most of the scholarships due to the income that they may bring to the school if they create a competitive team. The money does not go towards the academic part of the school, but instead it is used for the sports program to grow and become more competitive. This isn’t fair to the students that are not athletes but are very academically inclined. The “fairness” factor is affected by finances. This may happen not because of intention but just how the economy works. In the whole United States sports and entertainment have lots of funding so this may be why it is happening at lower level sports (“Is the Special Treatment of Athletes at College Fair?”).
Some students are considered “disadvantage” and most of them are the minority. Allan Bakke was rejected from a school on two occasions even though he had a higher GPA, benchmark score, and a higher medical entrance exam score than the specially admitted “disadvantage” students. When a student was not accepted into law school due to his race many people began to point out and discourage the special admission process (Phillips
The NCAA has academic allegations against 20 schools. This has caused many schools to increase observation on their athletes academics. The NCAA has found many violations at UNC,wherein they have allegedly allowed university employees to do the students work or helping them out. A former basketball coach sold test answers to athletes around the country. Cases of alleged academic misconduct have arose concerning former members of the Texas Longhorns men's basketball team. One player allegedly took photos of questions on the final exam and sent them to someone who was not in that class to find the answers. Another incident at Texas was when their academic mentor admitted to helping an athlete finish a paper “that wasn’t really entirely his own. Another college was Syracuse University who was accused of academic fraud by the NCAA (“Academic Foul…”). Indiana University allows special admits as long as they could potentially graduate, even if they do not meet the school’s requirements. Former Indiana coach,Gerry DiNardo, had forty-two percent of the students did not meet requirements of the University. Thirty-one of fifty-five colleges admitted to allowing special admits into their colleges’(“Is the Special Treatment...”). According to Brad Wolverton, Weber State University is now on probation for 3 years and a reduction of their football scholarships after the Division l Committee found that a