Why Collegiate Athletes Should be Paid In our world‚ people who bring in money with their talents are usually compensated for their efforts. It makes complete sense right? Well for college athletes‚ they bring in billions of dollars worth of revenue for their school‚ but do not get compensated for their talents whatsoever. Most people argue that only professional athletes should be paid because it is their profession‚ but people do not take in account for all the hard work and effort these student
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Although athletes may work extremely hard‚ they do not deserve that high of a salary because there are people who do more for this country than just entertain. Everyone loves watching the olympics‚ football‚ or basketball‚ but that doesn’t mean that athletes should get paid in the tens of millions of dollars. Maybe that’s why the United States is so in debt is because people care more about sports than their own well being. First and foremost‚ athletes get paid more the military which shouldn’t
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year in college. He is a ball player and he is really good at what he does. He is the star of the team and makes the college a lot of money. However‚ he can’t focus on playing ball because he is worried about paying for his classes and paying his tuition. If Marquiss got paid for his work he does on the basketball court and football field. Marquiss and other sports players in college should only have to focus on playing the sports they play. College athletes like Marquiss should get paid because
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College Athletes Shouldn’t Be Compensated Some people‚ like one of our classmates named Isaac Harris‚ believe that college athletes should get paid. That isn’t how it should be‚ though. College athletes should not receive compensation anytime soon because they already get paid‚ every college students will want compensation‚ and college athletes simply get to live the dream. First off‚ college athletes already get paid. They get paid in a way that many others wish they could. They get paid with
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Many student athletes thrive to become professional players of that sport. Almost all of them graduate from college with low grade averages. So‚ as a result of that‚ they attempt to become professional and the do not succeed. Now they can not go back to school and get good grades to then be able to get a well-paying job. Student athletes should have to maintain a certain GPA to participate in sports activities because it motivates them‚ it gives them a financial benefit and most coaches look
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Should College Athletes be Paid? “But‚ is money such a big problem for these student-athletes? Don’t they receive scholarships? How much more money do they need?” (Meshefejian). College athletes getting paid is a big issue because it leads to many question on if they do get paid or don’t. If college athletes got paid they would have to deal with how much they should get paid and who gets paid the most. But many that say they should get paid is because they raise a lot of money for their schools and
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Should college athletes be paid? For years now there has been a debate on rather or not college athletes should be paid and the question is yet to be answered. Some may say that they should get paid and others may disagree with that statement. There are people who think that they deserve to be paid. Many critics‚ coaches‚ staff‚ and others may have numerous things to say on this. College athletes are being paid‚ but just not in a financial way. Wolff states‚ “When they ask for cash‚ college athletes
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military should make this much too. This is not possible. Our military gets paid from tax income of the country. The United States gets $3.7 trillion in income tax. If you divided that among all the soldiers and pay them what pros get paid‚ this is how much it would be. It would be 7.8063324e+12‚ that’s a lot. My main three reasons for thinking pros should get paid more than soldiers are not enough money‚ just as much training‚ and they get paid from different sources. Athletes get paid from millions
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A debate has ensued over whether or not colleges should be able to pay their athletes‚ due to athletic programs bringing in so much money for schools. Not paying college athletes would be good because students already receive compensation towards college‚ students are given many auditions to become professional‚ and college is not a job. On the other hand‚ others argue that college athletes should be paid because schools and coaches are rich from the students’ work students do not have any time to
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The Topic I decided to debate was should college athletes be paid a salary? The side that I decided to pick was the pro side. To begin‚ every year new college athletes are drafted‚ they are excited to play a college sport and represent their school.”Journalist Michael Wilbon has written that seeing the $11 billion deal between the NCAA and CBS/Turner Sports for March Madness between 2011 and 2024 prompted him to change his mind about paying student-athletes. First of all‚ this deal shows the amount
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