Should the NCAA Pay College Athletes? College athletes spend just as much, or more time at practice, games, and traveling, as they do in the classrooms studying. This issue is very common in the NCAA. There 's been former players suing the NCAA for not getting payed. They’ve been put on video games, clothes, and on magazines, but they don’t get a penny for it. CBS nearly pays the NCAA $530 million dollars to televise the NCAA basketball tournament every March. The NCAA makes the money with them being on the video games. Today as much money that flows in and out of sports. Some people think that college athletes should get some of the payment, and others do not. The debate about "should the NCAA pay the athletes?" Has recently been debated, and has been a big problem with the NCAA. First, since college football has been popular for almost 100 years. For example, a fact that said "college football started to become really popular back in the 19th century" (NCAA Paying the …show more content…
First, the athletes get a free luxury atop of their scholarships. In fact, the athletes who get $40,000- $50,000 scholarships can enjoy luxury and academic services (Chaudacoff page 2). Also, the students that don 't have a scholarship can enjoy these awesome options. Next, the athletes get free clothes from their specific sport. For example, most colleges/University 's athletes walk the campuses in free and new Nike, Under Armour, and Adidas all free (Chaudacoff page 2). In this situation, this is a reason why they shouldn’t because they get all this free stuff. Finally, not all athletes compete in big divisions. Obviously, some athletes compete in divisions/conferences that make very little or no money for their schools (Paying college athletes). In fact, if schools don’t make as much as other schools, how would they pay them? In brief, athletes with scholarships have the life at college, they also get free clothes