College Athletes: Should college athletes be paid? College Athletes should get paid because when they don't get paid it pushes them to go to the big leagues and they end up making the mistake of forgetting that they also have education that they have to do. On why they should get paid, the mistakes that athletes are making, colleges taking advantage of college athletes, and there can be bad outcome but there can be good that comes with it. Although college athletes don't get paid right now, they should because then they will be selling things in college that can get them in trouble or fall behind with homework assignments. The reasons why college athletes don't get paid when they are in college sports is because the coaches don't think the athletes won't get that much of recognized in the world and that's leaves them to find ways to get money and it can lead them to …show more content…
In the article “Pay Dirt: College Athletes Deserve the Same Rights as Other Students paragraph one it states “Barnes should have pocketed a nice paycheck, but instead he had to settle for a pat on the back. That is, Barnes played the same course as Woods and all the other PGA players- he even beat most of them-but while they got paid, he didn’t.” This evidence mentions how when college athletes do get paid there are some that don't, and Ricky Barnes is one of those people that don't get paid and that might end Ricky Barnes to find new ways to get money since he is not getting paid for how hard he is working. It mentions how Ricky Barnes plays in a sport and how some athletes do get paid, but Ricky Barnes doesn’t, and it’s mentioned in the evidence that he has beat almost everyone, but he never gets paid Ricky Barnes just gets a pat on the back and nothing