We Should Pay College Athletes:the Breakdown

College Athletes Should Be Paid: How To Break It Down

By: A.J. Parker

As previously discussed college athletes are modern day indentured servants that are being exploited for billions of dollars nationwide per year. It becomes a sticky question when you ask, “How much do you pay these athletes, and do different sports get different money?”

We know about Title IX and the unshaven feminist radicals that have pushed for “equality” but have actually imposed unfair education scholarship cuts and mass institutional monetary losses with non-revenue women’s sports.

Here is the breakdown

Student athletes that participate in “revenue sports” (sports that produce a profit for the institution) will receive .05% of the annual revenue from their sport for the previous year including their tuition, room, and board.

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For example The University of Alabama football program made $80 Million in 2012

o   Each player would receive .05% of that revenue totaling in %410,000 per year minus their tuition, room, board, and books totaling in $40,000

o   This would leave them roughly $7,000 per week for compensation.

·      The University of Alabama basketball team made $11 Million in 2012

o   Each player would receive .05% totaling in $55,000

o   Minus $40,000 for tuition, room, board, and books leaving the athlete with $15,000 per year.

·      “Non-Revenue” sports such as womens basketball, mens soccer, and bowling would no receive stipends because their market value is not equal to the revenue sports.

Some my cry that this is discrimination and all athletes should be paid the same if they are being paid. This is ludicrous because athletes that are bringing more money to the institution will obviously have more value to the institution. Claiming that they all should be paid the same would be like claiming WNBA and NBA players should be paid the same amount when the revenues from the different sports are vastly different. This is a logical plan in which the student athlete can be properly compensated for their contribution to their institution.