Tope Olojede
Professor James Okun
Principles of Management
15 December 2017
I believe College athletes should be paid because they generate money for their
schools and are also risking their body to play the sport which is important for them to
get paid also on television getting exposure on national television. Being an athlete is a
full time job and then you have all different responsibilities when you are enrolled in
school and traveling for a student athlete is very full, also schools get money buy selling
apparel. College athletes dedicate a lot of hours to the sport that they play even
some of these athletes have to miss classes in order to still play the sport that
that they love, they are missing classes on National television that earns people
these Universities revenue. For example the NCAA’s Football team has to miss
their football game because of a National Championship game it shows that they
don’t care about the players receiving their education. In certain schools student