Essay Why College Athletes Should Not Get Paid

My Dad played College basketball and he had a everyday job like everyone else and did not get payed. He had a scholarship and everything. He had to come back home because his mom had cancer and later died. He went back to college and still did not get payed and he is doing just fine right now so college athletes should not get paid. The college athletes that think that they should get paid are wrong. They should have to work for their money they should want it more. They should want to go pro and if they don’t then that is another reason that they should not get paid. Only 1 to 3 percent of college athletes go pro in any sport. Knowing that, that should make them want it more. If they don’t make it pro then they can just get a normal job like a lot of the other people. If they don't want that job then they can go to the D League or the level below so that they can work their way back up into the pros. If they are not able to do that then they don’t want it bad enough …show more content…
A school that does not have a lot of money is West Virginia. There are also a lot of schools that don’t have a mascot. If they don’t have a mascot than that normally means that they don’t have enough money. If a school like West Virginia don’t have enough money and if other schools started to pay their athletes then that would not be fair to all of the other schools then that would mean all of the top recruits would go to the school with the most money to go and get payed. If they schools don’t have enough money then they should stop giving out so many scholarships. About 46 billion dollars go into all of the scholarships every year yes that might seem like a lot of money just think about how many colleges there are in North America. When they give out the scholarships they have to think a head about all of the things that could go wrong or go right and if more things can go right then they will give them a