Analysis: Why College Athletes Should Be Paid

It was late in the 4th quarter, the game was really close. The score was 65-67, you are bringing the ball down the court on a fast break. It’s a three on two fast break and you go up for a layup and come down on the your ankle. You try to get back up but you can barely put any pressure on it, so you fall right back down. The medical staff comes out on the court, you are trying to push them away but you don’t have the strength to even stand on your own two feet. The medical staff tells your coach that you have a grade 3 sprained ankle . The example that I just provided was how players sacrifice everything have out there on the field or the court. College athletes should be paid for playing because, they can be able to pay for the injuries they …show more content…
College athletes will always be able to pay for their injuries. As well as pay for equipment that will prevent them from even having a injury in the first place, “The NCAA basketball tournaments, or "March Madness," have become a huge business. As Forbes' Chris Smith wrote, CBS and Turner Broadcasting make more than $1 billion off the games, "thanks in part to a $700,000 ad rate for a 30-second spot during the Final Four." Athletic conferences receive millions of dollars in payouts from the NCAA when their teams advance deep into the tournament. Ditto for the coaches of the final squads standing. The NCAA, as a whole, makes $6 billion annually.” If athletes in college were being paid there wouldn’t have been most of the fatal injuries that have …show more content…
Such as, some athletes will sometimes give back to the community. Such as donating a little money, or alot of money to give to charity or donate to any local hospitals. Athletes could also pay off their college (student) loans if they didn’t receive a full ride scholarships. Because some students that graduated are still paying their student loans from college. Most workers from the NCAA Basketball association would say that the players don’t need to be paid for various reasons. One reason is that the players can do good things with their money as well as bad. Such as go to a nightclub and spend all of their money on something foolish such as bottles of champagne, etc. Then the next morning they wouldn’t have any money to go out and buy some breakfast before their morning classes start. As well is they can purchase performance enhancing drugs. Such as steroids, Diuretic, Stimulants, Narcotics, and etc. As I stated that there many things that the athletes can do with their money, good or

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