Every student who signs a letter of intent or agrees to accept a scholarship to play a sport knows that the school’s job is to make the most money off of his or her efforts. This is no different than a McDonald’s worker agreeing to work at a local store, knowing that he or she is going to receive minimum wage while the corporation is making millions. So why do college athletes feel the need to be compensated? Most colleges don’t have the sufficient funds to pay so many sportsmen/ and women. Together with scholarships covering all basic living costs and a free education.
According to Institute for College Access & Success, in the state of Pennsylvania, 71 percent of students leave a public four‐year institution or private non‐profit four‐year
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According to a 2013 USA TODAY Sports analysis, only 23 of 228 athletic departments at NCAA Division I public schools generated enough money on their own to cover their expenses in 2012. Although athletics is an essential part of the culture and attraction to a university, the revenue it brings in usually doesn’t outweigh the costs of running the programs. Colleges would not be able to pay their athletes due to the fact that they just don’t have the money. If they were to compensate their sports players, they would have to pay for all sports including the minor ones such as baseball, track and field, lacrosse, soccer, softball and volleyball. These sports are not revenue generating, so the college loses money. Coupling this loss with an added expense of student athlete salaries leads to an increase in tuition for general students which isn’t fair. The president of IMG College, Ben Sutton, states that “revenue from college sports is our country’s single greatest source of college scholarships, next to the federal government.” These facts show that paying college athletes would hinder the education system as a whole. Not only would this cause a huge disruption in finances in schools, it would cause the federal government to have more issues with funding