college athletes getting paid

The athletes, which include all sports, female and male, may be a little hard to do financially, why shouldn't the athletes be able to cash in on deals with Nike, like the coaches. If it's divided among the fifteen on the basketball team, that's $20,000 per athlete. Even though just recently the NCAA Committee allowed athletes to get a job; between schoolwork, and

practices, they don't have enough time to find a job. Or like in football, where there are more players, that's still $5,000 an athlete. A short time ago the NCAA allowed college athletes to get a job, but seriously, where are the athletes going to find the time to work. Schools sign large contracts with television stations for millions (even billions) of dollars, to see the kids play. That's a lot more then they're making now, and there are more contracts then that the schools and coaches sign. With classes, schoolwork, practices, and games (which include traveling all over the country), when are they going to fit in time to serve fries at Burger King. The marquee players sell jerseys with their numbers on them, but they don't see the money from them. Most of the kids come from poor backgrounds, and don't have enough money to do normal college things, like going out to eat, going on a date, or out to the movies.

People believe that paying college athletes will ruin the tradition and innocence of the game. It's hard enough now for the athletes to fit in time for themselves, let alone work. However, people forget that Olympians get paid, and most of them are amateur athletes.