Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Should College Athletes Get Paid?

I am going to have to disagree on this one. I do not think that they need to get paid. One reason from a student’s point of view is that it will raise prices. Paying college athletes will raise the tuition prices for the school and or ticket prices. If they were to get paid then we would need some sort of revenue to pay them with which would either come down to raising tuition and or raising ticket prices. Both these two potential outcomes I see will not benefit anyone but the athletes. Also why pay them when they are already getting some sort of free tuition, either with a full ride or even just a couple thousand dollars. Either which way they are getting free tuition they are already getting college paid for. Scholarships already give athletes free or reduced prices for attending the school and if they are good enough to get paid anyways they will be picked by the major leagues and become professional making millions of dollars. Another problem with paying college athletes is that it will corrupt college sports; it'll become which school will pay more for what player rather then that player picking where they want to go to school and who they want to play for. Overall I don't think that it is fair to the fans the students or the athletes that are competing if college athletes get paid.

2 comments:

  1. I like how you made your point of view of how it will affect the rest of the college students in a negative way with raising prices. Also how colleges will turn into who pays their athletes more is a valid point of how the NCAA will turn in an unfair advantage.

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  2. I read somewhere that the average college athlete already costs the University between $25,000-$63,000 a year depending on what sport it is(food, travel, scholarships, trainers, weight room facilities, tutors, etc.)

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