Robert B, a student-athlete, believes that “because of dedication to our sport and because of all the revenue we bring into our colleges, that we should indeed be compensated” (1). Collegiate athletes, especially DI, spend an excessive number of hours preparing fo

Yes there are millions of dollars being made through big time college athletics. What outsiders, and often the athletes themselves fail to realize is how much money it costs to run an athletic program. Ask Toledo or West Virginia. Both DI schools recently had to cut some athletic teams due to money problems. The five star hotels, the food, equipment, facility maintenance, and other perks that all the athletic teams receive take a lot of money. The revenue that football and basketball produce gets put to use not only for those purposes, but for new buildings, technology advances, scholarship funds and other. The money that is made is not just sitting in a safe collecting dust, it gets put to use. Do the teams that don’t produce any money deserve not to have anything? They thrive from the money produced by the big sports. And if the big sports don’t make any money it’s those non-profit sports who are the first to go. The money producing sports teams give an opportunity to a golfer or a tennis player to be able to go to school for free. College athletics is not supposed to be about money, it’s supposed to be about fun and love for the sport one competes in. College is amateur, not professional. If athletes want to get paid, then wait until the NBA comes knocking.

r their sport off-season, preseason, and in-season. The countless hours spent in the weight room, on the practice field, or in the film room takes up a lot of these athletes’ time for the academic part of college. I can attest to this because I was a former scholarship DI athlete, and am currently a DIII athlete not under scholarship. I have been on both sides of the ball. Does dedication to something that enables people to go to college for free, and play a sport they love constitute them getting paid to do it? “According to the Collegiate Licensing Company, the University of Michigan made a profit of $5 million in 1993 from promotional licensing” (Netzley 3). This was in the hay day of Chris Webber and the rest of the Fab Five. The revenue produced by the sports teams, primarily men’s basketball and football, is the most eminent argument for paying the athletes. There is tons of money being made by the NCAA and the Universities through athletics and their high profile athletes.

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