Since student-athletes are constantly training for their sports they do not have time for a job so their only income comes from their parents.In an article Horace Mitchell states “so, perhaps the question should be whether it is reasonable that student-athletes should have …show more content…
“Under the current amateur requirements, players generated their MRP marginal revenue product or the amount of revenue a player creates, and it is then spent elsewhere in the athletic department rather than on players” (Griffin 9). All of the money made from college sports got towards coaches and the college itself but the athletes do not get anything. Athletes are the people who are bringing in the money for their colleges they should have get paid because they are basically making the money for their organization. It is against NCAA regulations to pay an athlete for their performance.
The majority of society does not value sports enough to pay college athletes. College athletes time is already consumed by their school work, and on top of that they have to manage their practices every week. College athletes live with the burden of paying for both their school supplies and the activities outside of the classroom. In conclusion, with the amount of money that colleges generate, the least they could do is pay college athletes a monthly