Analysis: College Athletes Should Be Paid

Introduction The NCAA, National Collegiate Athletic Association, makes hundreds of millions of dollars from sports, such as basketball and football, but the players that play the sports don’t seem to touch any of that money and they obviously should, it is almost like the players are puppets in a show being taken advantage of, but the argument that the value of the game would be lost if players just played for the college with the highest bid and not the education or culture it can provide. Ekow Yankah (2017), says the argument to pay athletes is definitely there because of the revenue made by the athletes and that the coaches get paid.
College Athletes Should Be Paid “Obviously, big-time athletic programs are commercial enterprises. The irony is that, while sports events generate millions for each school, the workers are not paid” (Eitzen, 2005, p.26). “No other industry in the United States manages not to pay its principal producers a wage or a salary” (Eitzen, 2005, p.26). There are many different sports journalist that are talking about how the players are practically working for free.
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The Director of Athletics at Northwestern University argued that the scholarships given to some of these top student athletes totals almost near $200,000 over four years (Meshefejian, 2008). Whitlock, another writer with an argument to not pay these athletes, claims that college athletes are already paid in full from the scholarship offered to them worth tens of thousands of dollars and to say that this isn’t a good exchange for the athletic programs from the universities (Whitlock, 2005). “College athletes are not getting ripped off, they are just not taking advantage of the educational opportunity” (Whitlock, 2005, p.2). Most of these student athletes are coming to these schools with sports being the only thing on their mind and not even attempt at getting their