“Colleges and the NCAA generate more than $10.8 billion per year off of athletics” and yet, student athletes do not get paid at all for their hard work. They put in a great amount of time, effort, and work into being a student athlete. Being a college athlete is exceptionally laborious and can be both mentally and physically exhausting. There’s far more that goes into being a collegiate athlete than most individuals realize. Many people just see these athletes as the average student that in addition, gets to do what they love as an extracurricular.
College students should get paid because of all the income they bring in for their school while playing. For example, in the article “Why College Athletes Should Be Paid” by Tyson Harnett he says “Many coaches earn at least $100,000 per year to coach one of the major basketball, baseball, football at a school. “They will receive bonuses for going to the playoffs, winning championships etc.” “You know what the athletes receive as a gift? Nothing.”(Harnett). Despite the significant help, college players have been for their schools and the revenue they bring in they get nothing in return.
I mean sure they work hard for what they do, but at the end of the day we are all students. Athletes not only get their tuition paid for, they also receive free books, special tutoring classes, and housing at no cost. Student athletes should not have the privilege to receive all these advantages because not only is it not fair to the regular students in the university, but also because a few games and a couple of practices does not make them all-stars. A survey was given to ten students at Florida International University, viewing their opinion on the issue. The survey conducted, argued both sides of the topic.
Vincent believes there is no balance in the way the student athlete views life because he or she is interacting with people who think alike (Seigenthaler, 2011). Bill Rhoden thinks college athletics are at a point where people are questioning if college athletics takes away from a student athlete’s character, or builds their character (Seigenthaler, 2011). Gary Waters thinks athletics are a great way for some students to go to college, but states the amount of
Should College Athletes be paid for their performance? More and more college athletes are becoming household names without shoe deals, video game endorsements or a weekly paycheck. And more and more often, people are asking if colleges and universities should pay student athletes. The answer is no. But should companies like Nike have to give student athletes a piece of their jersey sales?
The first time this question was asked was by Howard Savage, a staff member of the Carnegie Foundation. In 1930 he asked if such a big corporation such as colleges and universities can concentrate its attention on securing their teams to win while not paying the players who came to their schools for education in the first place. The answer is simple. College athletes should get paid for playing sports during their college career. One of the main reasons is that college sports are very popular and the attendance, especially at the football and basketball is growing every year and breaking attendance records.
Just recently, a question crossed my mind after I had watched my brothers do this routine for so long now. Why don’t these football players get paid? I wear jerseys with their names on the back, I buy tickets to their games, I watch them play on television all the time, and my brothers are constantly playing video games with the players image in it. But somehow, the only compensation they get is there scholarship. The football players don’t get any of the extra money that they are bringing in for the National Collegiate Athletic Association or for their schools.
Nicholas Jackson Critical Writing Class Professor Maralyn Schlanger November 17, 2013 Should College Athletes Get Paid For Their Time Put In As Athletes? Should college athletes get paid to play? Forget about the game winning 3-pointer, forget about the cheerleader girlfriend, and forget about the championship game. What about the money college athletes will never see and earned? In the college sports its win or go home, and the winners get to celebrate their hard work.
Even at the high school level people consider the children who are active in sports to be unintelligent. But in reality this is not the case; in fact, I have had a couple of athlete friends in high school, and they were all ace students. No one considers the fact that high school, as well as college athletes have to manage both their practice and study time. After all the added pressure athletes still manage to get through their work and keep up with those who don’t have any extra work. Most colleges have a minimum grade that the athletes have to be above.
Student athletes need to manage their time productively by not being able to waste the limited time they have and to plan ahead with daily schedules that organize their time as necessary to fulfill each of their responsibilities. These responsibilities include classes, study time individually and/or with a tutor, practice, individual practice and games. “On an average day for a student athlete is spent with 1 hour of lifting weights and/or individual practice and about 2 hours of mandatory practice. Without including any games and travel time, these practice times can easily add up to 15-20 hours a week. Along with these practices each day, an average student takes 4-5 classes during a semester, which add up to 10-15 hours of class time per week.” There are just as many hours spent practicing as there are spent in class.