Let’s take the quarterback from the University of Alabama and a swimmer from the University of Alabama. How would you pay both fairly? Most would say don’t pay the swimmer because they don’t bring in as much revenue for their school, but both are receiving the same amount of scholarship money, logging same amount of practice hours, and working just as hard. Even though they both work just as hard, some smaller schools like Arizona State University, don’t bring in as much and would have no way to pay every athlete in every sport considering ASU has about five hundred athletes in twenty one different sports (Johnson). That means if the NCAA would make every college pay every athlete five hundred dollars every month for ten months the colleges would be losing one million dollars annually (Johnson). For a smaller division one school like ASU it would be near impossible to pay every athlete. But as Rosenfeld and McCourt reported a big time school like Alabama, making 45.2 million on football annually, could pay every athlete with no problem.
One of my favorite things about college sports is seeing the underdogs win. With paying college athletes that would be no more. If you had to pay every athlete there would be one dominant conference with very stacked teams and basically no way a smaller school that doesn’t have the money to bring in these all stars to win. It would be like playing NFL team. Colleges would buy out all the good players, and who wants watch that? Along with having to pay college athletes the recruiting process would be no more. In turn of the recruiting process being gone the recruiters for colleges would lose their jobs.
Of course the most obvious reason why these athletes shouldn’t get paid because in a way th...
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