original by Eric Weisbrod
March 21st, 2014

Are college athletes earning they're share?

Well according to Mr. Eric, the athletes don't see any money. "The highly-anticipated sporting event is watched by millions and generates over a billion dollars, but none of that goes to the players." Now isn't that something? where is the money going you may ask? One would like to say funding to the college or funding to the community. But no one really knows.

  "Legendary NBA basketball Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar argues in favor of giving college football and basketball players a salary. "There’s so much money being made and the people who are creating this wealth do not get to participate," says Jabbar. "College athletes are vulnerable and if they get hurt, they lose their scholarship, then what?" This is something that people need to open their eyes to. If the player gets injured then that means they go the hospital. Going to the hospital means paying bills. Hospital bills are nothing to play with. Guess who has to pay for those? the player! The college pays ZERO money for that whatsoever. Which is sad because playing sports takes risks to injuries.

"USA Today columnist Christine Brennan says that it's not possible to pay them under the current model because of Title IX, which protects people based on discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities." Well we aren't talking about only spending money on one specific sport and gender. We're speaking of every single sport gender etc. no one likes favoritism.