College Athletes Should Be Paid

I am an athlete and I love to compete for my school. I love bringing pride to my school and keeping that good reputation going. Being an athlete requires lots of quality characteristics, the main one being self-control. Do I think college athletes should be paid by scholarships? Yes, I strongly believe athletes should be paid with scholarships. Why? College athletes have to work harder than normal students. We have to sacrifice study time for our sport, therefore making it harder have study time and maintain good grades. College athletes also have less time for a job, making it harder for us to pay for college. This is one reason many of us rely on scholarships to keep us in school. The athletic scholarship may be the only reason some people

Although anything helps, there is still not an abundance of money for athletes like myself. According to a NCAA survey last year, playing football required 43.3 hours per week; college baseball, 42.1 hours; men's basketball, 39.2 hours; and women's basketball, 37.6 hours. Because of the huge time commitment, scholarship money is more important to make up for the work time that can't not be achieved. By having a scholarship I am able to offset a portion of my tuition expenses, making it easier to concentrate on my studies while still being a part of a team representing my college. Going to college is how I will get a degree allowing me to obtain a job. Obtaining a job is how I will be able to provide for myself, making me a self-sufficient person. That job that I obtain will allow me to give back to my family and to support my fellow mate. Not only will I be able to support those people but I will be able to be a good citizen. I will be able to better the world through my

Not many athletes will move on in the professional realm in their sport, but that doesn't matter fully. If an athlete is a prominent, successful athlete and makes the college look good by bringing respect and honor to their schools legacy; well I say that athlete is doing part of his or her job. Giving an athlete an athletic scholarship will give us more incentive to do better. Not only perform better for ourselves but for our school, family, friends, teammates, coach, and for God. It will also give us more incentive to get better grades, why not try to get an academic scholarship as well. Now some might say giving athletic scholarship and academic is a bit overboard, but in the whole scheme of things it is really not. College athletes do more than non-athletic students so there should be more options for us to help out financially. If you do more, you should get more, in simplistic terms. This is not meant to sound disrespectful or selfish. It is meant to get the point across that athletes have more to bring back to schools. If you give an athlete a scholarship you most likely will not be let down. They will try to impress people for the school, and give back to the school in return. It is win-win situation in my eyes. The school helps out the athlete, and in return he athlete will repay the school either financially or academically. Sometimes