Essay, Research Paper: Why Not Just Pay College Athletes?

Why not just pay college athletes? College athletics is a money making scheme for both the college administration and the athletes that are involved. There are agents and sponsors, there are millions paid out and there are gifts given to the athletes. Some of the athletes play without graduating and others have fake grades given to them so that they are academically eligible. Colleges find ways to avoid actual NCAA violations to pay players for their efforts on the playing field. Players are sold cars by boosters for very low rates so that it appears that the cars are actually bought and not against the violations. The public should face the facts; the more successful the team is, the more money they raise for the athletic programs of the school and the more money the actual school receives. There is a constant push in college athletics for more games, more championships, more playoffs. The school receive money for each of these things. Last year in the major college football game called the Rose Bowl, the winning team made twenty-one million dollars for the university. Do you really think that the school would be willing to give up that easy money. The preferential treatment that the athletes receive lead them to believe that they are “untouchable” on campus. There is a big problem on campus with the behavior of these athletes. There have been numerous movies made about this subject. The Program and Blue Chips are probably the best known movies that attempt to depict the life of college athletes and the college administrations. The Program depicts a college football team the fixes grades and finds ways to get their athletes out of


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