Should College Athletes Be Paid?

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Should College Athletes Be Paid?
Introduction
Payments and other forms of rewards are strong motivations for people. They increase their morale working and therefore produce positive and desirable outcomes. Players in learning institutions such as universities and colleges also need these motivations to boost their determination, confidence and energy. Many institutions use various forms of payments to their players, including offering scholarships, bursaries, and other benefits to motivate their athletes. The payments to college students can also mean salaries and wages on top of other benefits, such as scholarships and nonmonetary benefits. The huge income that college sports bring to colleges forces them to pay athletes so that they can retain the best talent; therefore, rewards that do not include wages and salary are more meaningful to college students. Therefore, college students should be paid because it motivates them to perform better; they take as much time as full-time jobs, spend a lot of time, have huge expenses, and make colleges a lot of money and other fortunes from college sports. The majority of the colleges do pay their athletes, but they only do so by providing other benefits, including scholarships and access to other amenities. At the same time, other people insist that the nonmonetary gains are the most meaningful compared to salaries and wages, which would reduce the value of sports. College athletes should be paid since they make a lot of money for colleges, sacrifice more time playing instead of studying, and pay for college expenses like other students.
College athletes have to be paid since they make a lot of money for the colleges, sacrifice a lot of time playing instead of studying, and pay for other college expenses. At the same time, they need to balance the curriculum and co-curricular so that they can excel in classwork. As a result, they end up straining as they thrive on meeting and satisfying both demands. Apart from the strenuous experiences amongst the students, there are more benefits they bring to colleges, yet they themselves do not enjoy such fortunes. For instance, college students make a lot of money for colleges through various other ways such as ticket purchases to games, corporate sponsorships, improvement of institutional image, and even television contracts. They are all money fetching opportunities that benefit the learning institutions. The colleges start signing huge financial contracts and deals since their image is well established, thus attracting major corporates and partners that positively influence colleges either financially or socially. Notably, college athletes should be perceived as employees of their educational institutions and make salaries among other financial benefits (Walsh 80). Based on these benefits enjoyed by the colleges, it is fair for them to pay the college sports students through scholarships, wages, salaries and other stipends that facilitate their exercise expenses and overall well-being in the institutions and outside.
Athletes sacrifice a lot of time in sports; thus, every sacrifice should be rewarded in an equal measure. They undergo rigorous training before the games to ensure ...