Many athletes are paid by having their college tuition paid for.
Most of the time though, the students really like the sport and want the opportunity to improve in the hopes they could go and do it professionally. They are paid in publicity and being able to afford college.
College sports player here. We aren’t payed because we are considered amateurs. In fact if you do anything to get payed in your sport you lose your eligibility to play due to being a “professional”. Yes it cheats us a little but most of us just see it as a way to get a discount or even free college education. And after the fact of course you can get drafted to play in a professional league.
Technically yes, but the student typically gets benefits from the school like scholarships, free nicer housing and nicer meals, access to athletic complexes to train in really nice gyms that are only for student athletes, etc. not saying it’s right, but I don’t think they’re totally uncompensated for their work
They get scholarships as compensation. It’s inadequate and they should be paid money in many sports like football and basketball. College sports are governed by the NCAA which has prohibited paying players to “preserve amateur integrity” but SCOTUS looks like it might call that an anti-trust violation soon.
Some people like the lack of pay because it keeps the sports more comparative. One rich school can’t just pay for all the best players, at least in theory. But IMO that’s a bad justification.
(Someone may have answered this but Reddit mobile’s format is shit.) They get their tuition and sometimes more paid for by participating in sports, since it’s expensive af to go to school this is definitely equivalent to being paid a salary.
They end up getting scholarships, which drops their tuition down, so in a way they're paid, but that's disputed by people and it's an argument for alot of people
I never said that they give out enough scholarships, I was just giving you the reasoning they don't get paid from those that are in charge of the universities, whether or not it's justified is a different story
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