This subject is a continuous debate. Should athletes in college be paid? I am on the fence about this issue because I do not personally follow college sports, or know much about them. Should they lower the standards for them? I’m not sure. On one hand many will think that it is unfair because other people have clubs, activities, etc. that involve much of their time, yet they still have to do the academic work everyone else has. Every student has a different workload, and every student has a life too. To lower the workload of select students might just be unfair.
However, student athletes have a tremendous load to deal with. They must find time to balance all that intense work, with the intense load of schoolwork. On top of that they want a social life. It is hard and I understand that. Sometimes I know that if there is away game at high school and you get back late, some teachers will understand that and let you pass in something a day later. I can see colleges doing that too. However, I can see how it could quickly become a problem.
In Florida, “It involved a total of 61 athletes spread across ten sports and the number of faculty members is three.” That is a lot of students at just one college. All across the country thousands of student athletes ‘cheat’ or fail because they cannot handle it. This is a problem that needs to be addressed.
It would not be ‘fair’ to lessen their course load, because how many people actually make it to professional sports? The odds are not for you. It would be different if these students knew for sure that they would become professionals. Yet, the situation differs form each athlete and each situation, so this question cannot be thoroughly answered.
Perhaps an option for finding a solution to this problem is offering ‘internships’. Maybe some people on sports teams would get paid if they look into it like an internship. That probably makes no sense, but when it comes to this topic/question I am lost.
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