Should Student Athletes Be Paid Essay

College athletes are given the name student athletes for one reason, they are students first and athletes second. We often forget that these athletes are in fact students that have to go to class regularly and do well in the classes in order to stay eligible to play. If these students are failing a class they are not allowed to play the sport, but because they have a signed contract paying them to play, the coach and player would have to go through extra time in figuring how to make the athlete eligible, which takes away from the coach’s focus on the team and how they need to procced in order to win their next game. Student athletes obtain a tutor, free to the student, to help and assist them in all of their classes, this luxury most students yearn for but cannot afford. Samaroo writes in her article that college tutors with a master’s degree can earn up to twenty dollars an hour (2016). The athletes can have the tutors as much as a three times a week or more and continue to be able to use them even after the

This would be a tragic mistake for these students due to the fact that only a select few actually go professional. According to the NCAA the percent to go professional in a sport is slim. For college baseball players to go into the Major League Baseball they have the highest chance at just 8.6%, for one of the most widely watch sports being college football the chance to go into the National Football League is at an astonishing low percent of 1.6%, and for the least likely sport to go pro into is women’s college basketball at a rate of 0.9% (2016). Pursuing a career in the professional sports world has a daunting outcome and is seemingly impossible to reach. If students go to the college that pays the most then the college is not preparing them for their future, which is the main purpose of going to