Paying of College Athletes

The NCAA should allow colleges to give college athletes a weekly pay check for playing a sport. With all the work that college athletes put in at practice, games, and then sitting in a class room they disserve to get paid for it. Unlike other college students athletes are prohibited by the NCAA from getting a job and can only receive scholarships as a source of income (Siebold). Not only is being a college student hard enough but being a college athlete is even harder. Athletes have to wake up early to make it to a practice that could start at 7 or 8. After practicing for 2-3 hours, it is time to rush and make it to class on time. They sit in classes all day long and have to find time between classes and practice to study as well as having a game or practice that night. If they have to travel out of state to go to a game they may leave early in the morning or the night before and may stay the night as well in that town. Even with the NCAA not allowing an athlete to get a job, when would an athlete have time to work? With not being able to work how are they suppose to be able to buy food or pay bills if they have some to pay? Not everyone that goes to college comes from families with money and are not able to afford what some of their classmates are able to afford. When you look at the amount of money that a college coach gets paid you would be surprised. In most states the coaches of football or basketball teams are the highest paid public workers. The basketball coach at Duke, Mike Krzyzewski, gets paid nearly $10 million per year (Strachan). A lot of college coaches do not want players to get paid. Is this because their salaries are the ones that will be getting cut if the school cannot find somewhere else to get the money? The players are the ones that people turn on their T.V. to watch or go attended the game not a coach.