... being said, this is why student athletes do not deserve to be paid for playing. Moreover, college athletes should not be paid is because it would put more of a financial burden on colleges and universities Most college programs do not make any money off of sports. If you start to pay the big sports, such as football players, then you would ... not cover the expense of running the program. The schools are already putting so much money into the athletes through education and material goods that paying them a wage is absurd. Jim Delany, Big Ten commissioner, has begun this conversation con...

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... to raise the money themselves; they raised between $60,000 and $100,000 every year and they never ran into a deficit. This burden of raising money was very hard on the wrestlers because it is hard enough without that burden to be a student-athlete. Finally in June of 2001 the news came that the wrestling program was done. This cut was due ... that this problem could be solved by simply just adding women's teams without cutting men's teams. Yet this requires money and many schools lack the funds to meet such demands. Jim Leach, a Republican from Iowa, plans on introducing a bill to provi...

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