Throughout the years, there have been constant debates as to whether college athletes should be paid. But since students are already being covered by their scholarships and the scholarships cover the student’s necessities such as medical needs and food, colleges fail to see that those young adults need a lot more than basic necessities such as clothing, hygiene materials, or even video games, new phones and much more. Student-athletes definitely deserve to get paid since they put all of their free time and all of their attempt to play for their school and receive somewhat of an education while colleges and the NCCA are rolling around in their money that those students earned but did not receive. Utmost people believe that the NCCA and colleges should be paying their sports players since “The college sports industry generates $11 billion in annual revenues. Fifty colleges report annual revenues that exceed $50 million” ( Text 1 line 1-2). So with all that gain, none of it reaches the players even …show more content…
For example “At the University of Alabama the head football coach, Nick Saban recently signed a contract paying him $7 million per year - More than 160 times the average wage of a Tuscaloosa public school teacher” (text 1, line 14-16). It is clear to argue that, that kind of money for coaches are way out of their professional league and it is still growing. “While many players scrimp, their head coaches don’t. Average salaries for major college football coaches have jumped more than 70% since 2006 to $1.64 million according to USA Today” (text 2, line 21-23). It is shown that coaches receive more than enough pay from these games and those salaries should now start to stay the same and not rise with the revenue. It should be time to pay the student-athletes what they legitimately