Debate
...etes brings in two million dollars and what does the athlete get in return nothing. Why don’t the colleges just pay the athletes? Well the reason why is that the NCAA is known as a cartel. A cartel is an organization that benefits members by using it’s strengths in the market to alter prices or costs. Because of this cartel, each school has an incentive to “cheat” on the organization and pay athletes “under the table”. Then this leads to the college financially worse off as the payments to college athletes are bid higher and higher. In a recent poll 31% of NFL players have admitted to accepting money or gifts while in college, this ranges from a few hundred dollars to $80,000 dollars. So the college would be better off paying a measly one hundred dollars then a whopping $80,000. Some think that if you are a good athlete then you come from a rich family and so why don’t you just ask your parents for money? That is true for some, but a lot don’t have that advantage. Take Fred Weary for example. He is a cornerback from Florida and says that "Its especially unfair for those like me whose family doesn't have much. As an athlete, you're not allowed to have a (part-time) job. So you have to get money from your family. But my mom's on disability, so I have to ask my brothers and sisters for money. I hate doing that. I hate having to ask anybody for anything.” The college athletes after practice go home and do homework. Why don’t they go and get a job? Paul Degrote is a college athlete and he says with his schedule, there is no way he can hold a job and practice at a level he needs to succeed. If he doesn’t practice then he will loose his scholarship and his chance of becoming a professional. He makes millions of dollars for the university, but gets nothing back. Some may say it’s selfish because what about the students who are on academic scholarships. Yes it is hard for them to hold a job and study at the same time but at least they have the option to whereas the athletes don’t. According to USA Today Magazine, it is an NCAA rule that a college athlete cannot hold a job during the school years and thus cannot bring in income to support themselves. You are probably wondering what athletes this bill applies to, that’s simple all athletes. Men and women of any race. I think a university can pay one hundred dollars a month to the athlete who brings in millions and millions of dollars. That honestly seems fair to me. Because if you multiply $100 a month, times nine months, times 130, 000 men and women who juggle sports and schools it equals $117 million. A network would approximately pay $117 million to televise the so-called college Super Bowl. In addition, there are the millions of other dollars made off of shoe and clothing contracts, summer camps, ticket sales, and merchandise revenues that colleges rake in on top ...