Summary: The NCAA Student Athletes Should Be Paid

The average NCAA student athletes work about 43.3 hours per week (Alessi). That is like a full time job! So between their academics and sports, there really is not any time in the season to have a job. The athletes put in a lot more work than most people with a paying job do. Athletes have to be in the weight room getting stronger, and on the field getting better at their sport too, which is a lot more strenuous than a desk job. Hit the reader with your position again. Back in 2010, the NCAA signed a deal with CBS to televise their college basketball tournament. So CBS pays the NCAA $10.8 billion over the course of 14 years (Wolverton). That is about $771 million per year. Also with the NCAA is an $11 billion industry; that is, more revenue than the NBA or NHL.! For example, the the University of Alabama took in $143.3 million in athletic revenues alone (Listland). This figure is not only more than any team in the NHL earns but it is also more than 25 out of the 30 NBA teams bring in annually as well (Listland). So why do …show more content…
The average salary per year for a coach of a bigger college is well over $2 million,RUNON there are even some assistants that get paid a lot of money (Brady). Nick Saban, tThe football coach at Alabama, makes a yearly salary of $7 million, which is a pretty good amount of money to coach players that do not get paid. As well as the athletes not getting paid, the NCAA acts as an employer to them. An employee is a person that does work for another person or group, in exchange for compensation. So the players are working for their schools, but not receiving payment. The NCAA also sets up a ton of rules the athletes have to follow, both academic and athletic. The athletes can get benched for not doing their best in school; which can be hard when they are gone a lot for road games. The athletes are risking their health and academic