Why Should College Football Players Get Paid

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College football players should be getting payed. It's just like a job so why shouldn’t they get payed? They work and put their time and effort into the sport but get no income. Also, they pay for equipment which means they are making an investment into this sport to. Not to mention, college is a time when money is low for students. Most students don’t have time for jobs which makes money a struggle. Having to balance out money for books and personal needs, it wouldn’t hurt to get some extra cash to help them out.
This has been a conflict for years where college coaches are getting paid too much when the players don’t get paid at all. The first problem with this argument is that, while the athletes are putting their bodies on the line, they

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