Student Athletes Should Get Paid Essay

If you were working a full time job nine months of a year, would you like to be paid for it? In the United States, Universities and Colleges will receive millions of dollars from college football and the players contributions on the fields. While this is favorable for the Universities, it is not as favorable for the players as they will not be rewarded. Instead, the student athletes will be disciplined if they make or receive money from to their skill on the field or their popularity within their respective sport. The National College Athletic Association (NCAA), which is college football's governing body, has long held to the grounds that no “amatuer athlete” can use his skill or likeness to get paid. This has been increasingly popular as

Some athletes are from low income areas in which they don't have the money to buy food every day or wash their clothes every day. In an interview of Kareem Abdul Jabbar, one of the greatest NBA basketball players of all time. Kareem weighed in on the idea of college athletes (let alone football players) getting paid for their work. He said: “Despite the hours I put in every day, practicing, learning plays, and traveling around the country to play games, and despite the millions of dollars our team generated for UCLA—both in cash and in recruiting students to attend the university—I was always too broke to do much but study, practice, and play.” While Kareem is an NBA basketball player, he still has a background in the NCAA’s horrid policies on paying student athletes. Another example of why college football players should be paid is from former standout tight end at the University of Michigan Jake Butt. During the orange bowl, one of the nation's greatest games of the season. Jake Butt tears his Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) during the game and is later told that surgery would be required. Unfortunately for Jake, the average cost of an ACL reconstruction surgery is 50 thousand dollars. If the NCAA allowed for the pay of college athletes Jake Butt would have had an easier way to pay for this major surgery. Instead, Jake was forced to have his economically strained parents pay for the surgery since the NCAA will only pay medical expenses if the cost exceeds 90 thousand