Should Student Athletes Receive Compensation for Upholding a Higher Standard?

Student athletes entertain fans at their local resident arena, which generated five million and six hundred thousand dollars in ticket sell in 2012 (National College Athletic Association). This is not fair to student athletes that are solely responsibility for contributing to these financial statistics. Student athletes are leaders in the classrooms and on the field. Student athletes uphold the standards requirement by the NCAA to maintain their eligible to play sports. As leader on the field and the classroom, they possess a high standard of moral and behavior by not cheating, obeying the rules and regulations of their college and university. Student athletes are held to a higher standard than regular students. A regular student can have jobs or participate in activities that would potentially student athletes would lose their eligibility to play. Student athletes should receive compensation as a result of profits earned by the NCAA and athletic programs.

One reason student athletes should receive compensation because of the financial benefit NCAA and athletic programs earn. The NCAA owns the rights of all affiliates division one through three and conference network channels, merchandise, or anything else linked to their participants. In most recent Bowl Championship Series, national championship game, where Florida State University and the Aurburn University played. The NCAA received five hundred million dollars from ESPN to air the game on their network channels, and both universities received twenty six million dollars for making it to the national championship game. The athletes should receive a share of profits earned from either the NCAA or the Universities. The athletes were representing their school and the NC...

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...lar student can have regular jobs and participate in what they want. Student athletes have to sacrifice bodies and extra time while still having to maintain a certain grade point average to remain eligible to participate in sports.

The NCAA and athletic programs received millions of dollars and they should be paid to student athletes. Athletes are held to a higher standard by asserting themselves as leader in the classroom and on the field. They assume all risk while the school can determine status as student athlete. The NCAA and schools are making millions of dollars from the athlete jersey selling, which the athlete cannot profit from those proceeds. Athletes are advertised by the NCAA and there schools to produce revenue. Compensation should be distribute to student athletes because without them the NCAA and athletic programs would be able to survive.