Playing a college sport for a “big time school” or a division 1 school, is often time the dream that many high school student athletes have since their childhoods and often time some of them achieve that dream. However, that small percentage of players that make it and actually get playing time find that their dream is more of an actual nightmare.
College sports are dictated strictly by the NCAA which set strict rules and bylaws that cannot be broken or else you lose a certain amount of eligibility. Now, this may not sound too bad from the outside peeking in, but if you ask an athlete currently on a team in a major conference, their answer may surprise you, especially since many athletes want a union. The South Eastern Conference for example otherwise known as SEC for short is arguable the best conference for college football and being a player on that team can lead to a lot of benefits. One benefit includes social acceptance; by being on a team in a region where football programs and coaches get millions of dollars in funding and the support of the entire town, there would never really be a lack of acceptance especially if you are a star player. Another benefit is getting your school paid
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Athletes are also cannot accept promise of payments or payments of any sort, play for other teams, play professionally while at school, market yourself, and the rules go on and on. This is why college athletes want unions. They take courses that won’t really benefit them if they do not make it to the pros, have a rigorous practice schedule, and their scholarships depend on their performances and can be taken away at any moment, and on top of that they are not allowed to profit from it but yet the school, media coverage, and the NCAA make billion from them