Are College Athletes Being Used - 979 Words

Andrew Comer Miss Randall English 9 April 14, 2016 Are College Athletes Being Used? Imagine that you are a full-time college athlete; your daily routine would entail an early wake up and a practice. After your morning practice, you have to go your classes for the day. Then, since you are crunched for time and do not have much time in the class room while on the road, you have a tutoring session. Lastly, you have another practice and a weight lifting session that could end at 10 o’clock or later at times. Players also have to work hard on their own time to keep their spot in the lineup. Athletes follow this schedule the whole year. With all of an athletes’ time being put toward their sports and studies, they do not have time to hold even a†¦show more content†¦I know many athletes that play at the college level and do not have enough time to have a job and cannot pay for food at times. College athletes should be getting paid because scholarships do not give an athlete money to be able to eat. College athletes should be paid because scholarships do not provide them with any spending money that they should be earning. Scholarships do not take care of any expenses that are essential, and athletes do not have time to work to pay off their growing debt. The great debt would gather from every day expenses over the athletes’ four years of college. The amount of pay they would receive would just be enough for them to go out and eat at times and have food for their dorms. They are serious athletes and eat and drink a large amount. What are they supposed to do if they can’t pay for this? Paying college players would benefit the university along with the athlete. Paying college athletes would prevent the gifts† given that players often receive to attend a college that is bribing them to go there. This would be greatly appreciate by the university because they would not be labeled a â€Å"bad college† and would not be suspended from major tournaments and/or events. For example, if colleges were to pay a basketball player, the college could get suspended from the NCAA tournament, which will cause the college to lose money they would have gotten for participating in the tournament. Paying college athletes could also bring up the idea