SHOULD NCAA STUDENT ATHLETES GET PAID WHILE THEY ATTEND SCHOOL?

One of the bigger topics today on ESPN and around colleges across the nation is should athletes that attend a D 1 school get any kind of income while they play a sport and go to school? This is a touchy topic because a lot of people don’t understand the life of a student athlete and how they have no time to hold a job to pay for anything that they might need. As a student athlete you are held to a higher standard than the rest of the students. You must uphold a 2.5 GPA attend all classes with minimal absences. As well as going to practice, workouts and film witch takes up majority of the day. When you finally get done you have 4 or 5 classes that you have homework in and have to finish that before the night is over. Leaves no time for a job or anyway of making a income. There are many times when student athletes struggle to eat or even buy cloths because they just have no money. I think the NCAA is aware of this situation and is hopefully trying to find a solution to this problem.

Then there are Student athletes that take advantage of the system and use the talents that they have for their own personal gain. For example there was a situation just this week that happened that blew up on ESPN. A college football Player by the name of Todd Gurley was caught celling his autograph. He was charging 8-25$ per autograph. I don’t know his situation but I do know how big of a school Georgia is. I also know that the bigger school that you play for the more help in money problems you get. For this young man to go against NCAA regulations just to gain a couple bucks blows my mind. You have someone who is a Heisman watch  food or whatever ets they need.  Its easy for people from the oulist player could easly make millions of dollars a year soon and he takes a chance of throwing that all away because he wants to take advantage of the system.  Is sad to see that there are so Many player across the country that could help others and make a good role modle for kids but are so selfish they only care about there own gains.

So there are two types of situations here. Maybe all of this could have been avoided if student athletes got money each month in order to pay fortside looking in to say that college athletes already have it easy. But do they really? Do those people saying that really know the life that they have to live. It is unacceptable to take advantage  of the system. But I feel like the NCAA needs to make a way so that student athletes don’t have to worry about money and can focus on a education as well as preforming as a athlete. After all sports teams are the ones who brand the university and make them money.