I personally believe that college students should be getting paid for not only their time but also their dedication to the sport. If you consider the life of a college student, you can see how difficult, stressful and depressing it can get. College students also need money to keep their lifestyle. Many college students coming from low income neighborhoods are broke and their families cannot be able to support them what happens then is that those college students look for work not only to support their lifestyle but to also support their families and this results in a great loss of talent in the transition between high school and college as many great performing high school athletes either do not have the grades to get them to college or they do not wish to dedicate their time to something that does not pay them at all and is not guaranteed to start paying them anytime soon.
Many college sports take hours to practice and play. Paying college students for those hours would ensure that those college athletes do not feel like they are wasting their time and will not only encourage the athletes to play but it will also serve as a motivation to do better in those sports.
Personally I gave up sports after high school as soon as I started working. I used to play soccer, track and field and tennis and I was D1 material for soccer and track but I was trash in tennis but hey at least I tried.
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