Answer:
Reasons, why college athletes should get paid, are:
1. College athletics generates billions in revenue and none goes to the revenue-generators.
2. Colleges shouldn’t be a free minor league for pro sports.
3. Being a college athlete is a 40-plus hour a week commitment
4. NCAA corporate offices shouldn’t look like something from a Trump resort.
5. The term “student-athlete” is a farce when you’re pulled from classes to play your sport.
6. Athletes have their social media monitored for no good reason.
7. 25 college football teams profited more than $30 million.
8. Coaches' salaries are closing in on eight-figures.
9. Coaches can leave without penalty, but players have to sit out a year when transferring.
Reasons why school athletes should not be paid includes:
1. Who's going to pay for it all?
I'm no economist, but it's pretty much common sense that if college athletes get paid, costs will go up.
Football players will be paid the most obviously because of popularity. The question then would be, how
much? If you're a college student going to a major university and you're not an athlete, odds are tuition is
going to go through the roof.
2. Others don't get paid as well
This goes back to No. 6, regarding the college process.
Plenty of college students nationwide are not paid for their contribution everyday. The biggest example being
internships. Many others must first start off as a non-paid employee to jump start their career. Why should we
make exceptions for athletes?
3. Which athletes get paid?
This is easily the biggest dilemma of all and would bring many college protests.
If the football team gets paid, why not the tennis team or the volleyball team? They're athletes too, right? What
about the golf players? They're all there on athletic scholarship. How about the chess team, as well? And
who could forget about the rowing team? And female athletes?
It would never end because you've opened Pandora's box. Once you pay one athletic program, you would
have to pay every program.
4. They already get paid
Major colleges provide the best services to their "student athletes."
5. Sends a bad message
Is this what we want elementary and middle school students to see? As soon as they see this they will be
demanding pay at the high-school level. The message College Sports would be sending is "it's ok to hold out
for more money and it's ok to only pay some athletes but not others." Every kid will grow up wanting to join the
football team just regardless of talent.
6. Recruiting won't exist
If college football (legally) paid their athletes it wouldn't last.
The recruiting process would be no more. It would result in one dominant conference for each sport and about
two handfuls of dominant teams. The smaller schools in smaller markets would not be able to compete with
the big universities resulting in loss of programs for many schools.
7. What level or division does it end?
Most "pay college athletes" groups favor paying Division one athletes.
Why not pay division two and three athletes? Do female athletes get paid as well? How about community
college athletes? You can't pay some, but not all... that would be hypocritical. All of those groups generate
revenue.
8. It's not what college is about
College is a provided service by each state. College athletes are not professionals and therefore should not
be paid. The purpose of going to college is to get the training so you can use it later. That's what the NCAA
provides. Athletes play at the college level and they further use that experience at the professional level
where they will be paid. Just like everybody else.
9. What about High School athletes?
"College athletes should be paid because they generate money for their schools."
That's the argument we hear constantly, and if that's the case high school athletes should be paid. Let me just
say now and clarify, I don't believe high school athletes should be paid. I say that even though it is true that
thousands of high schools depend on the athletic program to keep afloat.
