... the times indicate how hard working the student is. Most students receive a substantial amount of financial aid from their school to help pay high tuition rates. The fact that students are already being given money to attend their desired college or university discredits the idea that student athletes are the ... entitled to receive more benefits than regular students because of the time their sport takes up, but the decision to play a sport is their own choice. There is not an institution in this country that does not offer tutors or help learning material outside of the classroom no ma...

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... key reasons as to why student-athletes should not be paid. Sheffield states, "The main reason they [students] will be coming to UNT is to earn a degree which they will own for the rest of their lives. " Sheffield nailed it when she mentions how the most important reason students attend college is to earn a degree regardless of their athletic ability. That ... they would have to do it all over again once they decide to leave college (Wieberg). Author of "College Sports and the Myth of Amateurism"," Allen Sack, writes on his own experiences as a scholarship football player at the Universi...

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