College Athletes Should Be Paid

As a society, we have witnessed how sports have quickly taken over as a dominant feature of the human culture. College sports as a whole has taken the sports world by storm, there we see the best young talent in the country play against one another as they represent some of the greatest institutions in the nation. As the years go by, it seems like that the best players in the NCAA decide to leave their colleges earlier each year to chase their dreams of playing professional sports. I think this is a cancer to collegiate athletics that the NCAA committee needs to cut out as soon as possible. To these athletes it seems like a great idea to declare for their professional statuses early, however; it is only hurting them in the long run. The rule would benefit players as it would allow them to fully develop their skills, and it allow them to get at least an AA degree from a university, and they would develop their understanding of real life scenarios for professional …show more content…
How do we fix this? I demand that we implement a policy that requires our young athletes to spend at least two years in college before they can make the decision to go pro. Instead of having faulty careers, some of these athletes could turn out to have some of the best careers because of the education they would receive and the training that they would experience. They would be more equipped to handle interviews and press conferences, they would be able to handle their finances, and they would have better decision making as they would take classes to educate them in those fields. It is the responsibility of the NCAA to guide these athletes to the right path and this how it can be done properly. Student athletes be ultimately more prepared for a professional career if you implement this