Since the NCAA was founded in 1906 college athletics have always been different, there was now an organization that would keep college athletics in check. Student-athletes are the key to college sports and most colleges as well as NCAA profits which is why they should be paid. These athletes put the majority of their time and effort into sports in addition to getting an education, but the revenue alone should be able to pay off the athlete. The argument is that there should be a difference between professionals and collegiate athletes. And, not all colleges make enough money from sports to be able to pay all their athletes. Recently, the rules have changed though and NIL deals are now allowed to be accepted for all collegiate athletes. For …show more content…
Think of the dozen other broadcasted college sports and how much combined that might be. Undoubtedly the most popular sport, both professional and collegiate, is football in America, with hundreds of games played all across the country it is also bound to bring in a good amount of revenue for the NCAA. It should be noted that this number was in the billions of dollars that the NCAA alone received, let alone colleges, broadcasting companies, sponsors, etc. “The major one is Coors Brewing Co., which has a $300,000 advertising package for scoreboard, radio, and TV advertising, plus a sign on the mascot's trailer. The school also named its basketball arena the Coors Event Center in return for a $5,000,000 donation.”(Eitzen, Stanley). That may now have been a deal in the billions, but it was a several million dollar “Donation”. Now, how can there be an argument about whether or not college athletes should be paid when there are less than a million D1 athletes, where most of the money comes from, in America? On the contrary, these athletes have a coaching staff that trains them to compete at the highest level so it is not only the players themselves that need to be paid. However, most college coaches do have a pretty hefty salary, for example “Nine football coaches will be paid at least $1,000,000 in overall compensation in 2000…”(Eitzen, Stanley). To summarize, the NCAA makes plenty of money to not allow student-athletes to be paid in some