Research topic

\"The huge amount of money being made off college sports has led some to question whether student-athletes can be considered amateurs any longer, and whether they should, instead, be paid for their efforts\" (np).

\"College Athletes Spend an Average of 43.3 Hours Per Week Dedicated to Their Sport College athletes should be paid because they're working a full-time job\" (np).

\"Sometimes, money is actually taken from the school to fund sports. The University of Tennessee took $18 million out of its scholarship and fellowship funds and decided to invest it in the athletic department instead. At the time, the school was looking for new coaches and that kind of capital would have attracted prominent names. The school also announced that it did not intend to replace these funds itself and instead was hoping that private gifts and donations would make up for the loss\" (np).

\"Top Coaches are Rewarded More Than Fairly Coaches of high performing teams get paid why shouldn't their players? NCAA coaches can often earn an average of $100,000 per year. Being that they work for educational institutions and often have several assistants and advisors who help to share the work load, this is a huge amount of money compared to teachers and professors who are inundated with facilitating the academic success of tens of thousands of students\" (np).

\"But this is amateur basketball, and regardless how many billions of dollars are passed around between the NCAA, its broadcast partners, and various sponsoring corporations, the players themselves still make zero. They're in a money wind machine but locked in a straight jacket\" (np).

\"Getting paid in college would help teach these players some responsibility before they are rewarded a big NFL/NBA contract. Even though the numbers may not be quite the same, anything players can learn about money in college can go a long way towards saving more of it when they get to the pros\" (np).

\"Paying players would hold them responsible for playing by the rules and also prepare them more for playing in the NFL/NBA. Players would be less willing to risk a steady pay check to sign autographs or make money in some other illegal way\" (np).

\"When the NCAA was first founded in 1905, the opposition to paying student-athletes was akin to the opposition to paying coaches\" (np).

\"Time Out of Class If the NCAA claims that the education the students receive is enough, then why are they out of class so often? Whether you attended a division one school or a division two school, the average sports fan is aware of the privileges these athletes receive and how much class time they miss. A tournament here, a travel day here, the time out of the classroom adds up quickly\" (np).

\"Just by looking at the amount of football related revenue one can only imagine how much better off all athletes would be under some sort of revenue sharing program\" (np).

\"What other billion-dollar industry, besides the NCAA, has unpaid employees? I cannot name one. It is seen time and time again in the news, universities put under sanctions and penalized for violation of NCAA rules by student-athletes\" (np).

\"As a current student-athlete at the University of Southern California, I propose this question, how can all these money motivated violations come to an end? The answer is simple. Pay the athletes. Although NCAA officials and critics say it would be too complicated, NCAA student-athletes should be paid because they are not amateurs and scholarships are not providing a free education\" (np).

\"If it were the case that the success of a faculty's sports groups directly affected the quantity of education and analysis funding that the varsity received, it might be harder to argue that the players ought to receive a cut. In any case, they might be contributing to a faculty that was serving to pursue their instructional goals\" (np).

Student athletes ought to paid And be paid because should schools fill stadiums then with fans you'll be able to fill a University with paying students and professors.

\"If athletes were to be paid for just one reason, it's since the NCAA and universities capitalize on both the team's success and the players' status for its own monetary gain through the sales of attire and other merchandise. When universities sell jerseys and t-shirts with popular numbers on them, they're literally selling the personhood of the person whose number is on the jersey\" (np).

\"A small salary would also teach student-athletes the way to save. Saving is an incredibly essential skill that many young people don't participate in either because they don't earn enough money to create a savings account or because they don't recognize the importance of saving\" (np).

They should definitely get paid Some schools make millions of dollars in games. College athletes have it tougher than pros. They have to balance school and practice schedules (np).

\"Schools are actually making more money than ever from the revenues of televised college sports, especially the most popular men's football and basketball. However, the athletes involved in these games - the reason why sporting shows are such a hit in the first place - are not getting more than their scholarship grants; it is not even enough to cover for all their expenses; tuition, food, board, travel, books, and others\" (np).

Paying college students, a little extra, would do wonders for student athletes, especially for the ones belonging to a family with low income

\"If this point would be considered it might help to finally stop the abuses happening behind the scenes; abuses such as interested parties (i.e. recruiters) offering the athletes special \"privileges\" for favors as to how they wanted games to turn out\" (np).