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College Athletes The Next Big Market Essay

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Phillip Williams
Ms. Wolf
English 10
18 April 2023
College Athletics….. The Next Big Market? Universities and colleges provide so many students the opportunity to play their favorite sports while also providing the fantastic education and abilities needed to succeed after college. There is no need to start paying collegiate athletes with the number of things they already receive. For instance, the average college athlete can access free housing and food. If universities were to start paying students, they would be no different from employees, changing the idea of college athletics as the next big market. Colleges will be fixated on having the best athletes, looking at athletes as a money investment rather than students with amazing opportunities. …show more content…

Besides, why do athletes need to be paid when they already get benefits most other students can only dream of? “College athletes receive free meals, books, and tutoring. Above all, they get a free education” (Nathan Noble 1). All thanks to a scholarship, student-athletes are blessed with this opportunity, there is no need to pay them when all of this is included. With that being stated people still undermine the importance of a scholarship, thinking that a scholarship is easy to receive and it still isn’t worth much. However, people would be mistaken “it comes at a price: students enrolling in a four-year undergraduate degree in 2023 will pay somewhere between $110,000 and $240,000 over the course of the program” (White). In most cases, a scholarship is worth even more depending on where the student is from, their financial situation, and what type of athletic scholarship they received. Paying athletes just furthermore takes away the importance and value of a scholarship. “At Arizona State University, the average cost of tuition plus housing comes to about $15,921 for in-state students and $28,521 for out-of-state students. These numbers do not include the extra money allotted for books or the immeasurable fees for the special access to tutors and other academic success tools that are often given to athletes. This means that at ASU, in-state athletes are “paid” $26.36 an hour, while out-of-state …show more content…

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