Why Do College Student Athletes Get Paid?

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This film was about how college sports are increasingly bringing in more and more money to the universities. Although this makes sports a way to make money for university coaches, and programs. However, many college student athletes do not get any money. Student athletes often put more emphasis on their lives as athletes than as their lives as students. Often times student athletes who do not get a professional contract after their eligibility is up, they do not have all of their credits to graduate and do not have enough money to pay to finish their degrees. The university does not care any more because they can no long offer the team anything. In even more unfortunate cases, if a student athlete get so severely injured that they can no longer

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