Should Collegiate Athletes be paid?

Patton370
Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:31:49 +0000

Its hard to get an education when you have schedule classes around practices. I was thinking about walking on to a D2 track team, but I’d have to schedule classes around morning, afternoon, and sometimes evening practices. Also, I would not be allowed to have a job during season and would miss classes do to traveling. Being a college athlete can sometimes delay graduation, the time commitment is crazy, and the lack of an ability to get a job, intern in the summer (football players practice during the summer), the physical risk (concussions/future brain damage, possibly being paralyzed), less time to study, inability to make money off of ones name, and… Oh, and walk ons are subject to the same rules.

College athletes should absolutely get a stipend of around $5,000 a year.