Whether college athletes should be paid or not is a very controversial topic in the sports world. Many professional football or basketball players get paid millions of dollars each year and college athletes want the same. College athletes think that they should get paid for playing a sport such as football or basketball. Due to universities providing scholarships and paid tuition, athletes shouldn’t be paid to play a sport. College athletes shouldn’t be paid to play football or basketball considering most are receiving financial assistance and they aren’t even close to being professionals. The first reason is, an athletic scholarship can be worth approximately twenty to fifty thousand per year, just for the athletic part of things.
