Should College Athletes Be Paid

Imagine being in college as an athlete, trying to make a living off of nothing. It is nearly impossible. As most 18 year olds are starting college, they haven’t quite grasped the idea of living on their own and making money for themselves. Being a student-athlete is a full time job as it is. There…

 “So You Want to Be a Millionaire While You Go to College?” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 27, 2000, pp. 56–57. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2678998. In “So you want to be a millionaire while you go to college?” the author introduces the topic by listing the benefits these universities, and coaches reap due to…

In 2011 Bryce Love was hated on for skipping Pac-12 Media day because he chose to go to class instead of going to a press conference. He wasn’t getting paid for playing for the team so I don’t see the big deal about it because if the players were getting paid I think that would…

The NCAA will be back in court Tuesday in California, defending its amateurism rules against plaintiffs who say capping compensation at the value of a scholarship violates federal antitrust law (Ralph D. Russo, Associated Press). Amateurism rules are complex, but not hard to break. The rules state that athletes cannot receive compensation that exceeds actual…

After college, there are so many athletes that don’t make it to the pros and don’t have any money. As a result, have no financial savings or wealth. Well, there are a lot of people in the world that say that college athletes should get paid by there ability to be playing for what sport…

College athletes are the busiest college students out there and they are constantly on themove missing class and traveling all across the country. One man, author Marc Edelman, wrote“​21 Reasons Why Student-Athletes Are Employees And Should Be Allowed To Unionize,”published on Forbes in 2014. He tells us 21 reason why college athletes should be getting…