Should College Athletes Be Paid?

I believe that colleges should at least be allowed to pay their athletes. It is no secret that college athletics are generating billions of dollars each year for their schools. It seems perfectly logical to me that the students putting in the work should be reaping the rewards. I don’t think it should be required for colleges to pay their athletes, but if they want to use payment as an incentive to encourage higher-level athletes to come to their school I have no problem with that at all. Both parties would be benefiting. The desirable athletes would be paid to play and the school would be making more and more money, as their teams got better.

It is important to realize that most of the sports aren’t creating much revenue for the school so it seems to me that a scholarship would be a fair trade. But for the sports like football and basketball where the schools are making a very large profit off of their athletes, the least the schools could do is to give their athletes a small portion of the revenue they themselves have generated.

Not only do I see many situations in which paying the athletes would be beneficial, but also I can’t see one reason why it shouldn’t be allowed. This is an issue that the colleges and the Athletes can settle completely on their own. There should be no outside rules imposed at all. Each school knows what they make off of their athletes and they can determine how they want to use their revenue.