Saban, Alabama’s head football coach, is one of the highest paid coaches throughout all football programs in the nation at nearly four million a year (Yost). Now, where is this money coming from to pay all the coaches for the different sports? For example, Alabama has a $70 million athletic budget that goes towards paying all the coaches for their sports, and other necessary things (Yost). Now, how will these programs be able to pay their coaches on top of paying their athletes? Well, the answer is pretty simple, they would not be able to. These programs want to stay competitive, which requires getting some of the top coaches in the nation at a high price. Yes, you do not have to get the top coaches, and could leave money for your athletes,
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As we can see in the NFL each and every player gets a different salary that is usually base on your performance, or your future career. For example, Tom Brady, the New England Patriots quarterback, is one of the best quarterbacks in the league, and is obviously making way more than a rookie quarterback, or a backup. Unfortunately, this system is not going to work in college athletics (Griffin). This kind of goes with scholarships, when one athlete finds out that another athlete is getting a better scholarship, they tend to get upset, which will be the same affect with giving them a salary. Unless you decide to pay everyone the same, but then your superior athletes will demand more cause of their success. This will also come in at a competitive standpoint, where your bigger schools will be able to pay the athletes more, compared to your smaller schools, since they could not afford paying them at a higher price. This will make a huge impact on the decision making of the athlete, because he or she is obviously going to go to the school that is going to give the best salary. This will make it hard for these little schools to bring in athletes, since they do not have the money to compete with your stronger and bigger schools. Yes, you could say every school in the nation has to pay their athletes the same salary. But, …show more content…
How nice would it have been receiving a full-ride to go to school, that included room and board, and to receive money to get weekend meals, and get a huge meal plan. Well, these are the benefits our athletes are receiving plus more. So, why should we even give them more on top of everything they already have? Not to mention, how we are even going to afford it when the programs are spending the money just as fast has it comes in. We cannot just take it from other programs, just think of the affects that would have on not only the school, but for students who came here for an education, rather than just sports. We need to open our eyes and looking at the bigger picture here and let everything soak in. Look how amazing college sports are now, without the pay of college athletes. Do we really want to take that way, and ruin the fun of upsets, and all the blood, sweat, and tears that these smaller schools go through already to compete with the bigger name schools such as Alabama? In the end, it is not worth paying these college athletes, there is going to be nothing but flaws and corruption with the system. With that being said, join the argument, and pick the side to not pay our college
As we can see in the NFL each and every player gets a different salary that is usually base on your performance, or your future career. For example, Tom Brady, the New England Patriots quarterback, is one of the best quarterbacks in the league, and is obviously making way more than a rookie quarterback, or a backup. Unfortunately, this system is not going to work in college athletics (Griffin). This kind of goes with scholarships, when one athlete finds out that another athlete is getting a better scholarship, they tend to get upset, which will be the same affect with giving them a salary. Unless you decide to pay everyone the same, but then your superior athletes will demand more cause of their success. This will also come in at a competitive standpoint, where your bigger schools will be able to pay the athletes more, compared to your smaller schools, since they could not afford paying them at a higher price. This will make a huge impact on the decision making of the athlete, because he or she is obviously going to go to the school that is going to give the best salary. This will make it hard for these little schools to bring in athletes, since they do not have the money to compete with your stronger and bigger schools. Yes, you could say every school in the nation has to pay their athletes the same salary. But, …show more content…
How nice would it have been receiving a full-ride to go to school, that included room and board, and to receive money to get weekend meals, and get a huge meal plan. Well, these are the benefits our athletes are receiving plus more. So, why should we even give them more on top of everything they already have? Not to mention, how we are even going to afford it when the programs are spending the money just as fast has it comes in. We cannot just take it from other programs, just think of the affects that would have on not only the school, but for students who came here for an education, rather than just sports. We need to open our eyes and looking at the bigger picture here and let everything soak in. Look how amazing college sports are now, without the pay of college athletes. Do we really want to take that way, and ruin the fun of upsets, and all the blood, sweat, and tears that these smaller schools go through already to compete with the bigger name schools such as Alabama? In the end, it is not worth paying these college athletes, there is going to be nothing but flaws and corruption with the system. With that being said, join the argument, and pick the side to not pay our college