Caelan Stebelton Professor Longman English 1201 4 May 2017 Why College Athletes Should Be Paid, and How The NCAA Can Do That High level college sports such as basketball and football dominate television networks across the country throughout the fall and winter. The stars of the team often become household names, with jerseys and memorabilia sold all over the world. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, better known as the NCAA, rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars each year, with the universities and coaches receiving millions as well. However, the athletes that entertain millions of fans each year do not receive a dime, their only form of payment is the scholarships they receive from the university. In fact, collegiate athletes …show more content…
Most NCAA sports do not make enough profit in order to pay their players any more than their scholarships, due to the fact that most sports do not draw large crowds and have much popularity. The focus on paying college athletes would mainly be on Division 1 football and men’s basketball players, the two sports that bring in the overwhelming amount of the NCAA’s athletic revenue. These two sports bring in billions of dollars due to large television and media contracts, and the amount of public support for these two sports. The gap between amount of profit made by the NCAA and the amount of compensation that football and basketball players receive is the largest, making it important that these players are paid for what they are worth to the NCAA and the universities that they …show more content…
The benefits of this is that this would cover all of the extra costs that the scholarship does not provide and creates a truly free college experience for the athletes. This would also slowly the give the players access to their finances, with less money directly available to them. With less money to spend immediately, athletes would be more likely to make better choices with their money and how they spend it. However, this process runs into the Title IX wall as well, with hardly any other program besides men’s football and basketball being able to afford to give all their players