College Athletes Should Be Paid

My plan to compensate college athletes comes from the idea of stipends. I have two potential plans to pay players through stipends. As we have discovered, athletes are already shorted by their university $2000- $3000 a year because of attending university costs. But not even this projected amount covers other expenses like travel expenses, food expenses, and clothing expenses. Athletes, like other students, require the ability to travel to class or home, but because athletes are representing the school on the field, they don’t often get the same opportunities. NCAA bylaw 15.2.2.1 states that athletes are allowed a stipend equal to the normal cost of a meal on campus, if they are not able to eat at institutional facilities (NCAA). What this law means is that if an athlete is on the road with the team, they are only allowed a per diem equal to the cost of the schools dining hall. So if a player happened to eat more than the average $10, they would have to pay for it themselves. Clothing expenses are another misrepresented cost that athletes have to deal with. If a football player from Miami, Florida was recruited to play at the University of Wisconsin, they might not have the same essential clothing that a local might have. In order to compensate for this, clothing must also be …show more content…
This money would pay for the extra cost of living at that athlete’s particular school. Each Division 1 athlete would receive the global cash card. Since there are 179,200 Division I athletes, this initiative would be worth $1.075 billion, which as we discovered, is very payable by the NCAA and the universities. Implementing this program would satisfy many of the problems we have listed. It gives athletes an opportunity to be compensated for their work, and pay for some things they don’t normally get the chance to pay