Dear Nick,
After reading “Should College Athletes be Paid”, our group decided that college athletes should not get paid. Here is why: it costs too much to pay college athletes. $200 million dollars would be spent towards these athletes to play sports. It also may be a problem that some athletes get paid different amounts because of the different sports or how big their college is. Also paying college athletes may cause a cut somewhere else. Some schools might not even have enough money either. By athletes getting paid to do sports it will most likely distract them from there work. For example, as the star basketball player at a big university and a player for the softball team would be paid very different amounts due to the amount of income and eyes they bring to the university. This creates a problem for universities because only small fraction of Division 1 schools make a profit off their athletic program. Lastly, playing a sport is a privilege. If you want to play a sport then you shouldn’t be there for the money but there because you want to play the sport. When reading top 10 reasons why college students shouldn’t get paid from listland.com, they agreed that you should play a sport because you want to, not to get paid. You could argue that colleges athletes should be paid their athletes because they spend more time practicing the most people spend in a week. Being a college athlete is like having a fulltime job. Athletes aren’t able to make money because they spend so much time practicing and having class work and they don’t have enough time. But this claim is weak because athletes are saving money by not having to pay for school because the receive scholarships. And most colleges have sponsorships that pay for there sports.
Sources
Alex. “Should College Athletes Be Paid? (Part 2).” Youth Voices, Youth Voices, 20 Feb. 2018, http://www.youthvoices.live/2018/02/20/should-college-athletes-be-paid-part-2/.
Andrea Schooler and Katelyn Icke

Dear Nick

After reading your post, our group agrees with your post about college athletes to be paid. Throughout your post you had many solid claims. My group strongly likes how you use many different facts and details. For example, when you say “ 2.9 billion dollars are given away to 150,000 NCAA college athletes”, It really gives you an idea of why they shouldn’t be paid. Our group think that Athletes shouldn’t have different rights than everybody else. If college athletes get paid, then why don’t other college students get paid? Our group thinks that it is unfair to other college students and to other people in their position if they aren’t getting paid and only people in sports are. Like if you aren’t in sports and you don’t get paid but because of the fact that other people are in sports they get paid, it isn’t fair or logical. In the article it says,”If college athletes were paid, It would shift this level of play to be more focused about money, and getting an education and becoming better” this is trying to say that they could just get money and not worry about anything and they think that they don’t have to work as hard as everyone else. All and all our group decided that college athletes shouldn’t get paid because its not good for education purposes and its not fair to people who aren’t in sports or who aren’t athletes. It not only causes conflict but it isn’t fair to all, and it should be fair. This is why our group thinks that college athletes should not be paid.

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Kyler, Brianna, Alexa