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Ezekiel Horn College athletes should be paid. College athletes should get paid because they bring in a lot of money during the Football and Basketball season. Without the players going out there and performing, colleges wouldn’t make as much money as they do from their athletic programs. Just the price the price of ticket sells is 1.6 billion dollars in the NCAA. The players should at least be able to get 10% because they helped lure people in with their athletic abilities.

College athletes get put into video games without their consult and still don’t get paid. Former and college players are filing lawsuits because they said that the NCAA system was unfair. The NCAA makes billions of dollars but don’t share the wealth with players. Maybe colleges should be allowed to offer more than just a scholarship to the good players.

The total Football game revenue at Alabama Crimson Tide was $36,918,963, and not one cent went to the players for them to keep. People in prison have more rights than College student athletes. Arian Foster ( the current Texans running back) says “When you're playing you are under the spotlight and have all the attention, but when the game’s over and you are back in your dorm room with no money and no food in the fridge, reality hits you, hard.” Those were the words of a former student athlete who is now in the NFL who thinks that college athletes should be paid.

Jay Bilas ( Duke University 82-86) also agrees that college athletes should be paid. He also agrees that the NCAA should listen to the student’s requests and try to work out how they should be paid. They have to give the student athletes a chance to speak out and deal with the unfair, tyrant, NCAA. The University of North Carolina did not comment specifically on the academic fraud scandal. The former Chancellor Holden Thorp says “ We are confident that the new policies and procedures now in place will ensure that nothing this will ever happen again.” In July 2013 A group of students athletes filed a lawsuit addressing whether they should get paid for being in video games.

With all said, I hope that the NCAA will pay College Athletes. The NCAA is like a manipulative bully that always gets its way. With all the lawsuits filed, hopefully the NCAA will have some compassion and pay the college athletes for the hard work they put on and off the field.

Work cited Michael Wilbon, July,18 2011, College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid, ESPN, []

Trevor Martin, Ross Finkel, October, 18 2013, Schooled: The Price Of College Sports.

1 What is the name of the town where Kino first attempts to sell his pearl? (A) Santa Lucia (C) Cadaques (D) Tegucigalpa
 * (B) La Paz**

2. What is the first pearl dealer’s nervous habit? (A) **He manipulates a coin in his hands** (B) He twiddles his thumbs (C) He taps his foot (D) He chain-smokes

3. What is the best offer Kino gets for his pearl? (A) 5,000 peset (B) 1,000 pesos (C) **1,500 pesos** (D) 20 pounds sterling

4. What reason does the dealer give for not liking Kino’s pearl? (A) **It is too large** (B) It smells funny (C) It is actually made out of beeswax (D) It is stolen

5. How does Kino decide to make money when he realizes that the local pearl dealers are lowballing him? (A) By panhandling and singing for money (B) By stockpiling all the pearls of La Paz (C) **By traveling to the capital to sell his pearl** (D) By filing a lawsuit against the dealers according to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

6. What does Juana propose to do with the pearl? (A) Have it set in a silver necklace that she can wear on formal occasions (B) **Throw it back into the sea** (C) Give it to Coyotito (D) Sell it to the highest bidder as soon as possible