Athletes can not get paid because there are not professional.Athletes need to focus on their school work and they worry about getting paid. College athletes sometimes put in 40 to 60 hours each week for practices,travel and games. (It 's the coaches and the administrator to make staggering amounts of money Athletes are not allowed to get money other then scholarship because of the NCAA rules.) There’s a clear disconnect between college and the administrators they play for and at no point has that been evident than the past 48 hours (Listland.) Athletes need to get paid because they put in work on the team.” The N.C.A.A of amateurism in college athletics has come to border on farce” (YANKAH). Because college is to learn to get and education.