Why not to pay college athletes There are 480,000 student athletes that get their entire college paid for. Why should anyone pay them more? College athletes should not be paid for several reasons. Unlike professional athletes, college athletes who play sports do it for the love of the game in most cases. If college athletes got paid they wouldn’t be playing it for the game. If we pay the athletes they will be irresponsible with their money and spend it on necessities that they don’t necessarily need. The brain doesn’t finish developing until the age 21. Look for example at Johnny Manziel. He was getting paid for autographs and the school found out and suspended him. He allegedly spent all the money he got on a new set of rims for his car costing $7,500 If he hadn’t been paid this would have never happened. It is a classic example of what college athletes would do if we gave them money. College athletes aren’t forced to play sports. They play the sports because of their love for it and no other reason. Yes, most of them would love to play professional sports but most aren’t going to be able to play because it is just a whole new level of …show more content…
These athletes should not want to be paid. These athletes should want to play for the love of their sport not for how much money they would make because they are playing their sport. If people put money into the equation athletes should only be playing their sport to play their sport no further questions than that. Another reason is because they are still young adults that are irresponsible give these young adults potentially millions of dollars it wouldn’t end up well for them. If the NCAA were ever to pay these athletes they would have to do it equally to make it fair for everyone. The NCAA could not just pay the big time school athletes they would have to pay the smaller school athletes as well all of the NAIA schools, the DII and DIII