college athletes should be paid
Imagine working for a huge cooperation and bringing in millions of dollars for them but not receiving a penny for your work. This in many ways is what college athletes go through. This unfair rule the NCAA puts on the athletes that "work" for them and their school have led me to believe they should receive some sort of financial reward for the financial gain they bring. In the next several minutes I will tell you why college athletes deserve to receive pay for something so few can do to the level of excellence they can.There is a conspiracy, in college athletics that prevents top rated athletes from being paid their market value. The National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA has formed a type of monopoly in Division I athletics by preventing universities from paying their athletes more than tuition, room and board, and books. They feel this sum of money is sufficient for the contributions made by elite athletes for their respective institutions. Time and time again the public hears of multi-million dollar television deals, shoe contracts, and million dollar coaching contracts, along with enormous ticket sales to support the colleges and athletics. However, none of this money finds its way to the athletes who are th
tudents to want to attend that school. Just think, would any of you in here heard of Duke University if it wasn't for their basketball program? I seriously doubt it. Big time Duke stars such as Grant Hill, Christain Laettner, Shane Battier, Jason Williams to name a few, have made Duke what it is today. Now that you have heard why they should be paid, I am going to tell you how the NCAA can do this. I'm not trying to say college athletes should be getting millions, but they should be getting enough to improve the quality of life for themselves. The NCAA is currently considering proposals, which would allow student athletes to take out loans based on their future earning potential as professionals and insure themselves against potentially career-ending injuries. The proposals would also allow high school graduates who compete professionally before enrolling at a university to go back to college and be eligible to compete on the amateur level. I personally like this proposal very much, if a 16 or 17-yr old kid knows he's going to be in the NBA one day and rich, why shouldn't he be able to take a loan out to help himself out immediately. Other option's the NCAA can explore, is paying each athlete, say $100 a week, or taking that $2000 they are allowed to earn and make it par! to a full day of classes, head to the gym at 3 o'clock, get a workout in before practice, then practice, watch film afterward, eat dinner with the team, and by the time I get home it's eight-thirty or nine o'clock. I'm spending five hours at the gym every day. And that's not even on game day. What am I going to do on top of that, get a job at Burger King?" Battier then suggests, "playing college basketball is a full-time job...with overtime. And I ought to get paid for it." With all of this said, this doesn't even begin to count all the hours the athletes have to sacrifice. While all of us are home for Christmas break, Easter break, etc., the athletes are sweating it out on the playing fields or courts, and you
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