College Athletes Should Be Paid

College athlete should be paid to play. We miss so much to be able to play a sport. Athletes are constantly putting our bodies on the line for a sport. If we get injured and depending how bad the injury is, we miss school and have to wait to be healed to play again. “Kevin Ware suffered a horrific injury to his right lower leg” (Patterson). Other players can become “paralyzed by these hits” (Patterson). We put our bodies on the line to be able to play a game we love. We should get paid to play. Eventually we plan to make it to the professional league.

Athletes are also bringing in a lot of money to the league. We do a lot of fundraising and our events to have to show others who we are if you do not know about the sports. “March Madness is one of the most watched sporting events in the country” (Patterson). This event allows us to have activities for sports that are at the colleges and get more people interested in coming.

With getting paid for playing a college sport, athletes could use this money to pay for our loans and debt we get put in from college. Even the professionals are being screwed over in pay. “The ESPN documentary Broke gave an inside view of the financial woes of many professional athletes, noting that around 60% of NBA players are broke within five years of retirement” (Patterson). Not even college athletes but professionals are losing money.  We need to seek into better investments that we can 100% trust even with college athletes. This would allow college athletes to raise the money for “financial literacy” (Patterson) and move on to being able to play professional without going broke.