Why it’s Great That College Athletes are Getting Paid

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  1. today. I will be talking about why it's a great
  2. thing that college athletes are finally able to get paid.
  3. Called athletes are family able to receive money based on
  4. their name, image and likeness and it's the best thing
  5. that could have ever happened to them and their families
  6. to start off called.
  7. The athletes are full time workers.
  8. As a survey from the n.
  9. c. double sites athletes spend on average 45 hours per
  10. week on athletics.
  11. This does not include how much some athletes must watch
  12. film in their free time.
  13. Such as the football players, basketball players.
  14. Soccer players and lacrosse players as well as any other
  15. athletes that need to watch films.
  16. Yeah on top of those long hours they still have
  17. an academic side of college that they need to worry
  18. about that they are committed to Back in 2015 2
  19. former University of North Carolina student athletes stated that the
  20. hours from the survey do not include voluntary student led
  21. workouts which are not what they are categorized to be.
  22. Athletes are putting in all this time into the university
  23. to help make the university money at what most of
  24. them get in return is just some free clothing.
  25. Now at least have the opportunity to make money to
  26. help support themselves as well as their families.
  27. Which brings up my next point they will no longer
  28. be putting in those intense hours for free work and
  29. will now have the opportunity to make money while putting
  30. in the same hours they will continue to put in
  31. but with the benefits that they are now able to
  32. receive helping them in the future if they are unable
  33. to make a living playing their respective sport professionally here,
  34. it showed a graft taken from the U.
  35. N. C.
  36. Lawsuit that shows the average time in hours that each
  37. sport Um was practicing per day.
  38. And what percentage of those practices were 6-plus hours per
  39. day. And here is another graph that shows the athletic
  40. hours okay per week uh during the season of each
  41. respective sport.
  42. Mm For my next point, a study done in 2019
  43. showed that 86% of college athletes live below the poverty
  44. line athletes now have an opportunity to start paying bills,
  45. paying for groceries and in some cases possibly moving their
  46. families into a better area with the ability to make
  47. more money.
  48. Now Some high name college athletes are making over $1
  49. million dollars per year which would help move their families
  50. out of the rough areas that they are from.
  51. Some athletes who probably wouldn't have a fallen if it
  52. weren't. For social media's such as Tiktok are finally able
  53. to make money from the social media is like Tiktok.
  54. Most of those athletes are making money from sponsorships through
  55. the apps and now have the ability to make more
  56. money than they could ever imagine.
  57. One notable athlete.
  58. Olivia Dune from who's a gymnast at L.
  59. S. U.
  60. Is making roughly $60,000 per year and has the opportunity
  61. to make up to towards a million dollars through sponsorships
  62. and signings.
  63. Oh, from my last point, any college athletes who are
  64. not on scholarship have the ability to pay off any
  65. college debt, such as tuition, extra expenses from textbooks, any
  66. dining hall expenses, any living expenses, such as groceries, rent,
  67. you name it.
  68. And this would help them and their families financially in
  69. the future, allowing them to start their life after college,
  70. financially ahead.
  71. And it would save their parents from losing thousands of
  72. dollars.