College Athletes Should Be Paid College athletes don't get paid, but they generate a large amount of money for the school, which is unfair. College athletes have to spend less time on school work. Schools take advantage of this to make money. Colleges don't care what the athlete does outside of sports. Many of them get meaningless titles because most of their time is spent on sports instead of school. The time dedicated to sports is greater than the time dedicated to school work. Playing sports in college is like a full-time job. They spend much of their time exercising: lifting weights and watching their diet. It's unfair that college athletes don't get paid because they spend most of their time playing sports, risk injury, and have high dropout rates due to frustration. College athletes spend more time on sports than classwork. Some skip a lot of classes and end up failing, but the coaches never tell them to stay focused in class because they care about the games the athletes have to attend. Most student athletes enroll in colleges not for the strength of their brains, but for their physical strength. Most universities are famous for recruiting and producing world-class athletes. Football, basketball, track and field athletes who have overcome the rugged terrain to become professionals return to these colleges to support or even sponsor the athletic department. They learn to give back what college fails to give them. Most universities have now commercialized their sports faculty. Universities are more interested in making money than the well-being of athletes. Some people might argue that universities spend millions if not billions of dollars on college athletes. But we can... mid-paper... these athletes and start rewarding them because if they started paying them, the school would have more people who play sports with qualifications and this would give the school a good reputation. Everyone deserves to be paid for any job, and college athletes are no exception. Not paying for them or not taking care of them properly certainly constitutes abuse and misuse. Furthermore, when athletes face attrition, their privileges are stripped away and they are left to fend for themselves for the rest of their lives; it can be very devastating for these athletes. Athletes should be rewarded for the hard work they put in. Life is give and take. So the competition should be higher, because if they were paid for what they do, they would be very motivated in their work. Therefore, I strongly caution that they should be paid for all the time and effort they put into the sport.