Money in college shouldn’t be a big issue in college they are there to learn a way to make money not to get money easily. There has been lots of talk about this issue because if the NCAA tournaments and all the money that Is being made. People say that not only are players putting their bodies and health on the line be they work really hard for them not getting any part of the money that is being made. The NCAA brings lots of money but athletes are there to represent the college and make some sort of money for the school and to keep the school on the charts. Athletes are hard workers but most of there college is paid of with scholarships this is only one way that athletes get paid and there are other reasons and ways they get paid.
Athletes should not get paid in college. So far they get a lot of money in scholarships which is a great thing for them and they should be happy with that because all of college is basically …show more content…
In The New Yorker article Ekow N. Yankan says, " If a high-school football prodigy reported that he Michigan not for its academic quality, tradition, or beautiful campus but because it outbid all other suitors, a connection to the university 's values would be lost" (Yankan). This shows that if colleges start paying students the students wont focus on what the colleges really have and what they are really for. They will focus on the money and this maybe will not work will every player because after college how will they get more money if they don’t get drafted, that’s where they really need to think and know what 's really good for them.
Therefore, College athletes should not be paid for many reasons. They already get scholarships and they get everything paid for in college including living space and even food. Also athletes would only care for the money, they would not care about the great colleges and what they really