Why college athletes should be paid
In 2007 a collegiate football player, Stanley Doughty, gave up his senior year to play for the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL and was signed to play for $400,000 for the next 2 years, but found out later that he had a cervical spine injury and he was one hit away from being paralyzed so he was cut by the Chiefs. He needed surgery for it but South Carolina, the college he went to, refused to pay for it even though these players make billions of dollars for their colleges every year (TheAtlantic). These colleges obviously just care about making money and using the players for their sake. If Doughty was able to receive some type of benefit for playing he would have been better off, but instead he has no college …show more content…
It talked about how one of the players was upset about seeing that he had his own shoe named after them called the “Fab Five” and the Michigan player knew he wasn’t going to see a dime of that money. Jalen Rose part of that team said during that time, “I didn’t feel like a college kid anymore. I felt like a professional athlete that wasn’t getting paid.” (Amst.umd). However, due to the lack of money received by the athletes, everyone knows that these kids accept illegal benefits from boosters unfortunately. These athletes even see their coaches making millions of dollars and they still cannot receive anything like Alabama’s head football coach Nick Saban salary is 7.3 million a year (wpr). Nevertheless, more athletes today are deciding to skip their last few years of college because they want to earn some money for their sport, making the college degree less valuable. In conclusion, creating a budget for them would make the kids want to finish out college and get their degree, but since there is no incentive what would make them want to stay when they could be making millions of
In 2007 a collegiate football player, Stanley Doughty, gave up his senior year to play for the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL and was signed to play for $400,000 for the next 2 years, but found out later that he had a cervical spine injury and he was one hit away from being paralyzed so he was cut by the Chiefs. He needed surgery for it but South Carolina, the college he went to, refused to pay for it even though these players make billions of dollars for their colleges every year (TheAtlantic). These colleges obviously just care about making money and using the players for their sake. If Doughty was able to receive some type of benefit for playing he would have been better off, but instead he has no college …show more content…
It talked about how one of the players was upset about seeing that he had his own shoe named after them called the “Fab Five” and the Michigan player knew he wasn’t going to see a dime of that money. Jalen Rose part of that team said during that time, “I didn’t feel like a college kid anymore. I felt like a professional athlete that wasn’t getting paid.” (Amst.umd). However, due to the lack of money received by the athletes, everyone knows that these kids accept illegal benefits from boosters unfortunately. These athletes even see their coaches making millions of dollars and they still cannot receive anything like Alabama’s head football coach Nick Saban salary is 7.3 million a year (wpr). Nevertheless, more athletes today are deciding to skip their last few years of college because they want to earn some money for their sport, making the college degree less valuable. In conclusion, creating a budget for them would make the kids want to finish out college and get their degree, but since there is no incentive what would make them want to stay when they could be making millions of