Student Athletes Should Get Paid Essay

Many people attend college to pursue their career, or to further educate themselves. A lot of college students participate in on-campus activities, such as sororities and fraternities, theatre shows, community service, and sports. Many of these students do not get paid for their extracurricular activities, and there are a lot of arguments on whether student athletes should get paid, or not. ‘Why Students Aren’t Paid to Play,’ from the NCAA’s Web site, and source seven in ‘Paying college athletes,’ states that “student-athletes are students first and athletes second.” This is a good reasoning of why college athletes should not be paid, unless they participate in sports that are revenue producing. If a college or university makes money off of the student athletes, then they should be able to

Many student athletes also receive scholarships, while a student with a 4.0 has to pay for college. Student athletes should not be paid to go to college unless their grades say otherwise. That is essentially what universities are doing when they pay athletes. They might be giving someone with a 2.5 GPA a full ride to college, just because they are good at a specific sport, while a student with a 4.0 receives only a few thousand dollars. ‘My Priceless Opportunity,’ by Bill Walton, and source four in the reading, says “paying the players more than what they are already receiving for their scholarship is a bad idea။how would it be managed? Would every student athlete negotiate a separate deal?” Walton is right. Student athletes are not professionals, they still have to receive an education and get their degree before moving onto the N.B.A, for example. That certain level of professionalism is not for college