College athletics are some of the busy people on campus. They train all year around while also going to class and maintain a GPA of 2.25. The athletics don’t have to worry about anything but focus on training an class. These colleges and universities take care of their players by providing them a place to live, clothes to wear, and a meal plan for whenever they get hungry. Also they pay for their education which is usually at a pretty good college or universities which most of the time cost a lot. They ask their players to not get into legal or foolish troubles and also not to take any money from anyone outside the college or universities.
　　Colleges believe if they pay their players it would take away the student athletic title and be replace by professional athletics. According to this article, “Sorry Time Magazine: Colleges Have No Reason To Pay Athletes”, paying college athletics would result in this, “He believes that paying the players as professionals carries a big risk of the public quickly tuning out. “It would create a massive unknown, you have to wonder if it would change the whole dynamic of what it means to be a student-athlete,”. Students would be more interest in getting paid than playing the sport they love for their school in my opinion. The students would be more demand about how much they can get from the school and from outside the school. Bigger colleges and universities would bring in more better recruits than smaller schools because they have more income to spend. It would be like free agency that occur in professional sports. According to the same article, as state before, makes an argument against not paying athletics, “There’s also another fundamental issue that never seems to come up. It’s called the free marketplace. Why don’t schools pay? Because they don’t have to. Recruits jump on the offer of tuition, room and board without hesitation. And let’s not call them exploited – they aren’t. Slaves were exploited. A scholarship athlete at a university can leave anytime he wants to, free to become a tuition-paying student like anyone else”. I believe that’s a pretty good argument to not pay students because they do give them a place to live, an education and scholar which they dont have to pay back.
　　These colleges and universities won’t give into the paying their students because it will take away from being a student athlete. Players and their schools will have to give and take to come to a compromise about this issue but colleges won’t even talk about this issue.
　　
Check out this article after reading this blog:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2013/09/06/sorry-time-magazine-colleges-have-no-reason-to-pay-athletes/

Next blog will be a personal interview with a college athlete.