College Athletes Receiving Money College athletes should receive money for what they do for their school. The universities pull in hundreds of millions of dollars a year from the school’s sports. None of this is possible without the student athlete putting in hundreds of unseen hours. There daily schedule is packed from morning to night with athletics while still expected to do well in school. The athletes schedule is full and filled with cost. They wake up early every morning and stay up later, putting in fifteen hours a day filled with meetings, practice, lifting, eating, fuel and recovery, class, and studying. They have to do all of those things six days a week. This leaves little time for a job or free time. Being a college athlete is almost like a full time job. On average they spend 43.3 hours a week in sports.
People argue and say that the athletes already go to school for free. Some students aren’t on scholarship. Others are only on partial scholarship. Some things aren’t paid for in their scholarship. They need to have a bigger food intake after practices and workouts. Renting and buying suites is a part of being on the athletics team on game days. This might not sound like a lot but getting a scholarship for some is the only way they
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Texas A&M brought in $192 million dollars this year and the athletes didn’t see a penny. In ten years CBS made $10.8 billion from broadcasting these young athletes on TV. Stores capitalize on selling jerseys, shirts, and other clothing with the star players number on the back. The NCAA says they are a nonprofit organization yet they make over 11 billion dollars a year from the sports. That’s more than the NBA. The athletes don’t see a penny of it. The athletes are the reason for the schools, stores, TV, and others are making the money. Without student athletes they wouldn’t make any money from