Pay for Play
Now tell me if you have heard this one in the past decade, “College athletes should not be paid the school is paying them to go to school isn’t that enough?”, the real answer to that is “no it is not enough.” Yes most of the schools give a nice stipend to their athletes but it is not enough money for these student athletes to live off of comfortably for the entire semester. The average stipend given to a Power 5 conference player is between 3,000 to 5,000 dollars.1 If you were to take these amounts and divide it into the amount of months in a single semester, the athlete would be getting between 750 1250 dollars depending on the amount given.
The reason
I believe that athletes should get payed more money or at least be rewarded with valuable goods when their team or university makes it to the College Football Playoff National Championship game. ESPN paid 500 million dollars to broadcast the game and made 45 million dollars off of the games broadcast.2 These college athletes should be getting a slice of the pie from either the university, since they are getting free press off of their team, or ESPN. Either the university or ESPN should make a play to pay the athletes in a way that will not a NCAA violation. College athletes put everything they have everyday into their sport now why is it that they are not getting paid or at least compensated for that effort?
The solution to the problem can be solved very easily I believe. The university or NCAA can either give permission to a media source like ESPN to give a certain sum to the two teams that make the national championship game or the NCAA should pass a rule that allows for more of a stipend upgrade to help out college athletes have an overall easier lifestyle. After all most of the stipends given to the athletes are going to everyday life uses.
Stipend- a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or allowance.
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