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There has been a general argument on whether college athletes should be paid. Those who argue positively propose that college athletes must be compensated because they have no time to work while those against the view base on the fact that their tuition fee is already taken care of. Athletes should be paid based on their contributions in college athletics, their hard work and many injuries received severe training to enable colleges to earn a profit.

The following discussion provides both the reason for and against why college should be paid. Different views form people have been analyzed (Vecsey, George, 57). The issue of college athletes being paid or not is an ambiguous topic owing to the fact that there has not been enough study and research to support the topic. There has not been an incident where college athletes have been paid as professional athletes are paid through history, hence the debate. Such facts have been put under consideration in the successive analysis of the arguments for and against the idea of athletes being paid.

The Arguments Supporting Payment for College Athletes

Athletes provide revenues for schools and coaches through their hard work and training in the colleges. They, therefore, deserve some percentage off what they have solely worked hard to achieve. Coaches earn a lot of money most of which they keep for themselves for every game or event participated especially for winning teams. In addition, there are also packs and bonuses for every win or achievement to next significant level in a competition (New York Times, 34). Besides playing, there is also merchandise and advertising of the team bringing in funds for the colleges. Unfortunately, players earn nothing from such forms of marketing that channel billions of funds to the school. Besides bringing in money, there are more valid reasons warranting payment such as the injuries athletes have to endure through the sporting events (Vecsey, George, 128). Over 3 million sports relayed injuries are reported to occur every year. Most of the injuries are normally concussions affecting the brain hence depression, problems of balancing and even damage to the brain.