My first source (College athletes should get paid) is about how the NCAA economically get money from the economy like selling to broadcasting televisions to commentate and have the games to be viewable for around $6,200,000,000. They have also stated in the article some of the coaches will earn over $1,000,000 after one season. Then after all the statistics and facts towards that the writer begins to state the injustice in where athletes do not get paid, but they should. Then begins to veer how coaches of these teams are sponsored and get paid for these deals as athletes are left empty in their pockets. Being a student athlete and becoming a professional athlete is rare, but as they try it is hard to keep up with studies and the graduation rate is bad especially for the first 4 years because they have a lot on their plate according to the article.

Assessing the information I see that there is a lot of justified information, facts, data, and statistics to get college athletes paid because of the workload they have upon them throughout the years. You can also say a full ride scholarship is paying you for instance to get an education and to play a sport for the school. At of all honesty is it that hard? As a regular full time student and paying loans they have it a whole lot easier than most. I believe the only way they should get paid is if they sell a jersey or something entitled in its name to get most of the profits.

To conclude and reflect the article was very well, professionally typed to put you in a good perspective of a student athlete. In my opinion at the end of reading it and having it digest it actually made me believe student athletes are paid through their scholarship which is a lot. I understand why this has been coming up a lot as of late, it is only because of social media (a whole different topic to get into) but yes student athletes are paid for their education and playing the sport, does not have to be in a check or in cash money form to prove it.

The article I read called “Play to Play: Should college athletes get paid?” dives in right away the revenue most colleges get and know most of its profit is from sports. A big argument it has in this article is if college athletes got paid they can be able to finish school and graduate school. Then it begins to discuss even though getting paid technically through a scholarship they get no money at all from shoe deals, sponsors, television, and gear sold with their number or even last name on it included also. Especially with games and practices players cannot make it to every class which causes them to fail out or not get the grade they want, so by paying them they can be able to stay on task all the time and get both parts of their job done as a student-athlete.

As I assessed this topic and article this was a lot of a stronger piece than my last source (no offense to the writer of the first source) just because it was short and straight to what it was trying to say. As I assessed my first source I was very strong towards that they are already paid through a full ride scholarship, but the writer from this article made me rethink my thought process of it. I liked how it stated that as schools title these players as student athletes the two words should be switched around. Athletes can never get a perfect attendance because the coaches of their teams drag them out for a game or a practice. If this consistently happens to these types of students I believe a payment should be placed for them so they can keep focus and not lose insight on what is more important, education.

In conclusion after reading this article I am 50/50 on if college athletes should get paid or not. Such a great conflict that could get resolved in 5-10 years or for a very long time. As I keep researching and observing what I have at hand with this argument I believe by following these steps of this I can vividly find myself in the perfect decision to know 100% if athletes should get paid or not.