Pay to play? That is the question being debated on many college campuses.Every school wants to be dominating in their athletic program; however, should the athletics receive compensation? According to Paul Daugherty , a columnist for The Cincinnati Enquirer, student athletes should not receive any form of funds outside of their scholarship. Daugherty believes that student athletes receive enough advantages and I agree."There are roughly 138,000 athletic scholarships available for Division I and Division II sports."
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n average a student scholarships is about $10,400. Only four sports offer full rides to all athletes who receive scholarships: football, men's and women's basketball, and women's volleyball. If you remove football and men's basketball, the average scholarship drops to around $8,700. In my opinion there is pressure on the schools to have athletic achievement and unfortunately today winning a game is potentially beneficial due to the payoff and media coverage. When interviewing some of my athletic colleagues they argued that the scholarships they receive took care of their schooling expenses; however there personal needs were not included. For the most part, many of them instantly said they should receive pay since they represent the school and that is similar to a job. In any event, attending college is a privilege , to participate in college activities is a choice .
n average a student scholarships is about $10,400. Only four sports offer full rides to all athletes who receive scholarships: football, men's and women's basketball, and women's volleyball. If you remove football and men's basketball, the average scholarship drops to around $8,700. In my opinion there is pressure on the schools to have athletic achievement and unfortunately today winning a game is potentially beneficial due to the payoff and media coverage. When interviewing some of my athletic colleagues they argued that the scholarships they receive took care of their schooling expenses; however there personal needs were not included. For the most part, many of them instantly said they should receive pay since they represent the school and that is similar to a job. In any event, attending college is a privilege , to participate in college activities is a choice .
For this reason, I argue against college athletes recieving compenstaion. Receiving a scholarship is an advantage in itself, personal expenses is a personal issue. Another issue that arises is most athletic departments actually lose money year after year trying to fund programs. How are these struggling athletic departments supposed to cough up even more money per year to pay their athletes to play? Simple, they're not. Athletes already have their tuitions paid for, not to mention their room and board, meal plans, and all of the other “perks” they receive.
All in all, college athletes play a tremendous role in representing the university and its athletic department. If a student makes a commitment to participate in collegiate athletics he/she is given the responsibility by the university to perform at the highest level but they are not paid professionally.
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Yes, I believe that collegiate-athletes should not receive any compensation. I know they do a lot for the university but the university do a lot for them as well. Their tuition, room and board, and other things are paid by the university.
ReplyDeleteI agree, because the whole reason for attending college is to get a good paying job, so why should they get paid in college? if the college athletes want some extra mulah they should quit the sport and get a job. On the other hand they can just be patient and wait until their hard work pay off.
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