Reasons Supporting College Athletes Getting Paid

College athletes have so much they have to do in college to maintain grades that will keep them in their prefered sports. Class, group work, homework, and studying on top of the duties they have on the field. This begins to wear the students down and have no extra time to commit to a well paying job without losing the little sleep they already get due to all of the important tasks they have to accomplish. The typical Division I college football player devotes 43.3 hours per week to his sport 3.3 more hours than the typical American work week. This isn't even considering a job on the plate of that College football player. This is also looking at one sport that is in the college world. Now currently, the NCAA Division I football championship is played on a Monday night. This year, the national football championship game required Florida State football players to miss the first day of spring classes. This not only requires the students to miss class time that hinders his or her ability to accell in the class. And are still expected to keep a good grade, work, and play their sport.Meanwhile, the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament affects more than six days of classes. This isn't helpful to these students who aren''t allowed to get paid survive. If the sport of the athlete is intertwining with the schedule of the school that is able to flex to the individual athlete, how can the student balance a steady job to support the needs of a growing athlete who's in college. Genetically this is the time that men and woman grow the most and need the most nutrients and protein that can be absorbed. This causes them to eat more then usual and since they are exercising for their sport causes them to burn those nutrients even faster. This is just one aspect that trickles down into a butterfly effect of other things. There is only so much time in a day for an athlete to do what they need to do and gain the proper 8 hours of sleep needed. Since schools made the push for healthier lifestyles we have been aware of what is necissary to be at the best of your ability.

The Revenue that Colleges rake in is ridiculous and absurd once you see the numbers that you have to question why athletes don't get paid.The NCAA currently produces nearly $11 Billion in annual revenue form college sports more than the estimated total league revenues of both the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League. These are PROFESSIONAL LEAGUES that are making less then what college sports is making.This year, the University of Alabama reported $143.3 Million in athletic revenues, more than all 30 NHL teams and 25 of the 30 NBA teams. Again these are PROS were talking about that have been through college and have achieved the main goal of their sport. None of the revenue that is gained by collegiate sports is put toward the classroom either. So since the revenue isn't going toward the classroom or the athletes, where is it going? The revenue is given to coaches, Athletic directors, and administrators. No one ever really sees where that money goes unless you're receiving it. Don't get me started on the Average of a college coaches paycheck. The average BCS coach in 2014 was $2.5 million. And the average NCAA men's basketball coach gets paid $1 million. These are absurd prices to any average individual for coaching a sports team where the people who are putting in the work aren't receiving anything from it, unless they obtain the ultimate goal of every sport the championship trophy. This still doesn't give them money just fame and future endorsements if they're lucky to make it the the professional level. With these factors in mind, Division I football and men’s basketball players do not merely play a sport of leisure. Rather, they are core members of their university’s marketing team, as well as the labor force behind a lucrative secondary industry in hosting organized sporting events. But don't reap any of the benefits of doing so. How is that fair to these students who devote so much time to a 4 to 5 year period of their life.

Northwestern University Former Quarterback Kain Colter and a group of Northwestern players began the process of forming a labor union to represent college athletes in 2014. According to ESPN's Outside the Lines, Ramogi Huma, president of the National College Players Association, filed a petition in Chicago on behalf of the players with the National Labor Relations Board. If the group is certified by the NLRB, it will be called the College Athletes Players Association (CAPA). Huma, Colter and former UMass basketball player Luke Bonner created the group with support from the United Steelworkers. This was something that just recently stirred up a lot of questions in the media and social network. Now that this topic has arrisen there can be action made on it. if the right people are willing to fight for logical rights that athletes currently aren't given.