1-8-18 Should college athletes be paid for playing sports? A question that is asked a lot is should college athletes get paid? Yes because they're always at football practices or at school getting their work done so the college athletes are eligible to play their next game and get food. Some can't even afford their own food for his or her self athletes should be paid because they are performing. Jared Welch and Blake Marshall said ‘’The athletes also bring in a lot of money and proponents tend to view the money as an excess, something that isn’t already planned’’. college players should get paid to support their self.
People think college athletes should be paid because they are entertainers they bring people out to watch them play football basketball and other sports and that brings money to the schools coaches,athletic directors administrators. ESPN and colleges sports tv channels earn millions off of college athletes that could have a good chance to make it pros or hall of fame and breaked records in the future. College football and basketball brings in the most money but it is going
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Another reason why college athletes should be payed off of their performance off the game because they can use that money to go towards there scholarship and other things that they need to stay doing good in school and not struggling and plus there getting put into video games like 2k sports nfl and ncaa games that are making money off of them. O Bannon went to court and sued the ncaa for violating the united states law by not letting athletes get half of the money for letting them use their image of them of video games and