Should College Athletes be paid?
Only 30% of Division 1 basketball players who accepted scholarships will graduate college, and only 40% of football players with scholarships will obtain a degree. Just how wisely spent would the salary of college athletes be if over half of these student-athletes do not care enough to graduate college even with scholarships? Schools would spend millions of dollars a year paying these athletes and it is undoubted that much of it would be spent irresponsibly. We have seen many examples of college athletes spending money presented to them in careless ways in the history of college athletics. Scholarship athletes contesting at the collegiate level should not receive compensation due to the fact that they are amateur …show more content…
Nevertheless, some believe that scholarships is not suffice for these athletes as a number of them have trouble buying basic necessities that they need such as clothes and food. There are multitude of college athletes who accept scholarships that come from low-income families and are educationally less privileged than others that otherwise would not be able to attend college without their athletic abilities. Consequently, others believe that a college athlete with a scholarship is paid in full, and that it is the fault of the student if they do not have the sufficient funds to fulfill their basic needs. Being able to attend college with your tuition paid in full or partial is an amazing privilege, but the difficulty of this is that an exceeding number of these athletes do not take advantage of that. These same students who do not seize the opportunity of graduating seriously, subsequently are the ones that tend to use their money irresponsibly and draw themselves into situations where they cannot afford basic necessities. “Athletes do receive compensation for their work in the form of full scholarships worth up to $60,000 a year”.(Compensation for college
Only 30% of Division 1 basketball players who accepted scholarships will graduate college, and only 40% of football players with scholarships will obtain a degree. Just how wisely spent would the salary of college athletes be if over half of these student-athletes do not care enough to graduate college even with scholarships? Schools would spend millions of dollars a year paying these athletes and it is undoubted that much of it would be spent irresponsibly. We have seen many examples of college athletes spending money presented to them in careless ways in the history of college athletics. Scholarship athletes contesting at the collegiate level should not receive compensation due to the fact that they are amateur …show more content…
Nevertheless, some believe that scholarships is not suffice for these athletes as a number of them have trouble buying basic necessities that they need such as clothes and food. There are multitude of college athletes who accept scholarships that come from low-income families and are educationally less privileged than others that otherwise would not be able to attend college without their athletic abilities. Consequently, others believe that a college athlete with a scholarship is paid in full, and that it is the fault of the student if they do not have the sufficient funds to fulfill their basic needs. Being able to attend college with your tuition paid in full or partial is an amazing privilege, but the difficulty of this is that an exceeding number of these athletes do not take advantage of that. These same students who do not seize the opportunity of graduating seriously, subsequently are the ones that tend to use their money irresponsibly and draw themselves into situations where they cannot afford basic necessities. “Athletes do receive compensation for their work in the form of full scholarships worth up to $60,000 a year”.(Compensation for college