Should College Athletes Be Paid - 1304 Words

Jarrod Uthoff, a Cedar Rapids native, left a legacy at the University of Iowa. He scored 30 points in one half at one of the most hostile arenas, Iowa State. He has made history by now being one of the Big Tens most dominate players. He was named Mr.Basketball in 2011 and also Gatorade Player of the Year. They put in around half of their time practicing their sport and that is without school work involved, according to Peter Jacobs author of an article from college student athletes. Yet after all that time they are not getting paid. As of right now the student-athletes do not get a wage, but they do get a scholarship, which is why this is such an important topic because the college players are a huge part of this issue. Many people†¦show more content†¦These players have extremely hard practices, and so very intense games, and usually put in another 40 hours plus without counting practices. Their total efforts each year lead to at least 11 billion dollars each year f or the collages. Each day for the men s basketball players the average is about 5 and a half hours each day.(Peter Jacobs) Why is this business model--unpaid labor, mostly by black athletes, generating riches for white administrators--still treated. (Donald Yee) For football they usually have about 10 games and then they have playoff games if they make it around 13 games. After all you can see that these players put in a tremendous amount of time for their sport. They also need to get paid because of how much extra money the colleges have. Most college coaches get paid millions and that s just for coaching the team, it’s not him that brings in the money it the players. The highest paid coach in college football is Nick Saban getting paid just a bit more than 7 million. (Washington Post) According to USA today their are more than 9 athletic directors that make more than 1 million and about 50 that make around 500,000. Their would be caps for basketball it would be 65 0,000 and for football it would be 3 million so neither of those are even close to the 11 billion the collages make a year. The amount players would make is 25,000 each and all that added up among the players would not even be more than 1 coach. They