In the past, college athletes have been illegally paid to come to schools to play sports; now the representatives of the NCAA are finding out.  Now, is the idea of athletes being paid becoming a reality?

Many students have been secretly paid by their coaches or schools to take part in a sport, now the FBI is cracking down and they are finding out about these collegiate athletes.

There was a case that involved a phenomenal high school basketball player, Brian Bowen who was reportedly being paid. Bowen had a full scholarship to Louisville, according to ESPN.  Bowen stated “silly adults” messed it up for him. He was suspended by the team after a college basketball scandal, which alleged that his family accepted payments from Adidas in exchange for him going to Louisville. Bowen is now not allowed to go to Louisville and is now considering going to Europe to play and try to make it to the NBA afterwards.

Injuries are also a career ending possibility and, sadly, some players have suffered these consequences. Dajuan Wagner played under Coach Calipari with Memphis and instead of playing for four years he played one and went straight to the NBA. In one of his first years of his professional career he suffered a devastating injury where he tore his ACL and it ruined his career. Wagner was paid over seven million dollars that last him his whole life, many ask the question what would have happened if he stayed in college?

In order for these athletes to get more playing time and to practice more, almost all of these players are being passed in their classes just because their professors know they are athletes. North Carolina University has had “paper classes.” This basically means that students would be passed with below average work, plagiarized papers, and sometimes papers that were almost entirely written by their tutors, almost always these student were athletes.

College athletes should not be paid because they are receiving a full free education to whatever college they are going to attend. For instance, Marvin Bagley III had a full scholarship to the University of Duke, I don’t think it would be fair if Bagley got paid because he is already being paid a free education to an preminum school.

If players were to be paid, there would be successful athletic schools like Alabama paying their students a lot more money than smaller schools like Wagner and Coastal Carolina. This is unfair because players are more likely to go to bigger, more athletic schools to get more money than smaller schools.

Overall, collegiate athletes shouldn’t be paid because, if they are accepting a full scholarship to the school of choice why should they be paid. Instead of being paid they are receiving a free college education to learn anything they want.