ARGUMENT ESSAY: SHOULD COLLEGE ATHLETES BE PAID?

SHOULD COLLEGE ATHLETES BE PAID?

COLLEGE ATHLETES ARE PART OF A LONG TIME CONTROVERSY. WHILE THEY RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS  AND ARE ALLOWED TO GO TO COLLEGE FOR FREE, THEY CANT GET A JOB BECAUSE THEY PRACTICALLY WORK AT PRACTICE AND AT GAMES. THEY CANT GET PAID BECAUSE OF THE LAW THAT’S PROHIBITING THEM FROM BEING  PAID.

COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD GET PAID BECAUSE OF THE REVENUE THEY GENERATE FOR THEIR SCHOOL IS JUST AMAZING. FOR EXAMPLE, IT STATES IN “THE CASE OF PAYING COLLEGE ATHLETES BY MARC EDELMAN “THE COLLEGE SPORTS INDUSTRY GENERATES $11 BILLION DOLLARS IN ANNUAL REVENUES. 50 COLLEGES REPORT ANNUAL REVENUES THAT EXCEED $50 MILLION AND 5 COLLEGES EXCEED $100 MILLION!!”  THAT’S A LOT OF MONEY ,IN FACT IT STATES IN “SHOULD COLLEGE ATHLETES GET PAID” ON TEENINK.COM THAT THEY GET MORE MONEY THEN THE MLB THE NBA AND THE NFL IN THEIR POST-SEASON.THESE ARE TWO REASONS WHY COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD BE PAID.

COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD GET PAID BECAUSE OF HOW A HANDFUL OF COLLEGE ATHLETES ARE DEALING WITH MULTIPLE SOCIAL ISSUES. FOR EXAMPLE, IN “THE PRICE OF POVERTYIN BIG TIME COLLEGE SPORT” “DUKE BASKETBALL PLAYERS WERE VALUED AT $1,025,656 WHILE LIVING ONLY $732 ABOVE THE POVERTY LINE”. THAT REALLY ISNT MUCH ABOVE THE POVERTY LINE. THEY REALLY SHOULD TRY TO START GETTING COLLEGE ATHLETES TO BE PAID. IT ALSO STATES THAT 85% OF THE ATHLETES WERE ACTUALLY DEALING WITH POVERTY AS THEY WERE UNDER THE POVERTY LINE AND GETTING AN AVERAGE ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP SHORTFALL OF $3222” THEY CANT GET SCHOLARSHIP SHORTFALLS IF THEY DON’T HAVE ENOGH MONEY BECAUSE OF THEIR POVERTY. THIS IS WHY COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD GET PAID.

SOME PEOPLE WOULD DISAGREE WITHN THIS STATEMENT AND THINK, NO , COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD NOT GET PAID. FOR EXAMPLE, “ IN COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD NOT RECEIVE PAYMENT FOR PLAYING”BY:MOLLY BLOCK “COLLEGE ATHLETES WHO ALREADY RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIP MONEY SHOULD NOT BE PAIDBY THEIR UNIVERSITY TO PLAY SPORTS.IT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO OTHER STUDENTS IF THE UNIVERSITY PAID COLLEGE ATHLETES TO PLAY SPORTS”. ALTHOUGH ON THE OTHER HAND, IN “SHOULD COLLEGE ATHLETES BE PAID” BY: AARON CHESLOCK IT STATES “FLUKER LIKE EVERY OTHER PLAYER DID NOT RECEIVE A DIME WHILE HE DEALT WITH POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS”. IF YOU’VE BEEN WONDERING, FLUKER IS AN ATHLETEWHO LED ALABAMA TO A NATIONAL TITLE AND GOT THEM $82 MILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUE. DOES IT SEEM FAIR NOT TO GIVE A PLAYER LIKE HIM MONEY? OF COURSE ITS NOT FAIR.THIS IS WHY COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD GET PAID.

IN CONCLUSION, I FEEL THAT COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD GET PAID FOR WHAT THEY DO FOR THEIR COLLEGES.