Everyone has heard the stories in the media of college
athletes and coaches being reprimanded for accepting inappropriate gifts in
exchange for their talent. However I do not think I have ever read an article
condoning the thoughts that college athletes should be paid. As most would
probably agree, I believe that paid athletes should wait until the pros. Hence,
“professional athletes”. College is supposed to be the highest level of amateur
competition, and tarnishing that innocence with money would ruin it. Just
because big football programs at certain schools generate substantial revenue
for the college, does not mean that the players should be fiscally compensated.
The article mentions that athletes are not the only students receiving
scholarships from the school. I think this makes a good point. Just because
basketball might be more popular then the mathletes doesn’t mean that the
athlete should be paid and the scholar shouldn’t. The author said that even a
mere fifty or hundred dollars a week would suffice. Why does a football player
need that money and not any other student? I am sure that a student on an
academic scholarship studies and works just as hard then the basketball players
and would like an ipod as well. I believe the author of this article was
extremely bias to athletes and completely disregarded all of the other students
who work just as hard if not harder for their funding.
I think you had a lot of good points from the article. I hadn’t realized it when I was reading, but it was strange seeing an article that was favoring the paying of athletes. The majority of articles would turn down the idea right away. Similarly to you, I also wrote that paying college athletes would ruin the purity of the game. When you play for money, you are playing with a completely different mindset than if you are playing for your team and your school. You also made a good point about the students attending school on academic scholarship. These students have worked just as hard as many of the athletes but do not receive nearly as much for it. I think that best thing to do is to save the pay for the professionals.
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