Research: Should Student Athletes Be Paid

College athletes dedicate on average 43 hours per week to their sport. This is not counting personal time, time spent on class, and time spent studying and/or doing homework. An average student spends 15 hours in class each week and spend 3.5 hours on assignments. With all this time spent on their sport, there is no time for a job. Also, many colleges don’t allow athletes to even get a job. Therefore, this leaves them with no money, or parents having to support their child even more. I think to solve this issue; student athletes should receive a stipend or be paid because to them the sport is their job. This wouldn’t be considered a privilege to the athlete, but a responsibility. The payment could be set up as an hourly wage, or one lump …show more content…
There is plenty of money to go around to athletes, especially when their name is trademarked onto a piece of merchandise. The money is spent on new stadiums and sometimes seems as if it goes into a black hole, whilst the athletes don’t see a dime of it. The NCAA doesn’t allow capitalism within athletes because they are said to be amateurs, not professional athletes. So, they spend more hours in the gym or on the field than an average employee spends in an office, and sees no pay. A salary would help the athletes manage their money just like it teaches a normal employee to manage their money. Without it, they won’t know how. Once the NCAA will consider a small stipend, it will be more than just amount of money they are earning for playing a certain sport, its teaching the athlete responsibility. Most athletes in college’s dream is to be drafted, and sometimes that doesn’t happen. So with having the opportunity to be paid for their time at the college, they will be able to save up in case they aren’t drafted. In their years of playing, it will end, and they will only be left with a