Summary: College Athletes Should Be Paid

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“In august, a judge ruled that college athletes can be paid. That is seen as a win for college basketball players and football players”. Because many athletes may get hurt while playing college sports and won 't go on to playing pro Football or Basketball. “45% of athletes will get hurt during their first year of sports” (Chadiha). because schools permit up to 95 (maximum) in 1992 scholarships to players. Now those are reduce to just 85 which is only 10 injury difference (Chadiha). with only 15 spring practices and 85 people trying to get seen there will be a lot of injuries occurring. College athletes should be paid to play Basketball or Football Because many college Athletes get hurt in practice according to Chadiha “This spring has …show more content…
Many students do not go to college because they may not have money to pay for tuition, and others who do decide to go take out loans for large amounts just to help them pay for things such as laptops and books and schools supplies. students still may not have enough money after taking out loans to help pay for college. College athletes should get paid to play because they want to go to college and they may also not be wealthy enough and ,if a school likes them they should give them a full ride to there school and inside the scholarship it also should include medical and housing for them. That will change for many athletes because “in august a judge ruled that all college athletes will be paid” (Cambio Ava, Liam Kivirst). So for the high school students that would like to go to college but can 't afford to go if you do good enough you may get a chance to get a scholarship and then you will be able to go to college and if the scholarships doesn 't include things you don 't agree with you can pay for the things that you may need or even what you just want with the money you will be …show more content…
But many don 't understand that many athletes don 't get full scholarships and that money may not be used for just anything. others that do get full scholarships may also used their portion of money to help a friend that may not be as fortunate as them, to get a full ride or get free housing. Many colleges agree that they should get paid to play and many also agree with them if we want this world to change we should countie to give out scholarships to student athletes so that they can go off to college and help change the world many can 't afford to go so this is a good way to give a student athlete money to do what they do best. If we change this rule we would not have much of student athlete population or even have a better world so we should consider keeping this

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