Dear NCAA, Pay Your College Football Players

College football athletes put their body, their life, and future NFL career on the line during every snap and every play they are on a football field. They suffer injuries across the body, gain serious concussions, that can affect them later in life, because of a very physical and dangerous game named football. All of the wear and tear and broken bones, for nothing to gain. College athletes deserve to be paid. Point, blank, period.

Basketball players can play 4.8 career years on average, a baseball player can play 5.6 career years on average, while a football player can last 3.3 career years on average. Football is a dangerous and very aggressive sport. Just one wrong tackle or wrong sack can end their career, just as fast as we can snap our fingers. Which is why college football players should be paid, because they won’t know which play could be their last. Plus, there is no money if a player suffers a career-ending injury. Or when a player’s career has ended in cause of injury.

When an athlete receives a scholarship from a school and his career is ended because of an injury caused by football, the college snatches away his scholarship to finish college.

Many arguments against paying college football players, I’ve been told, is letting college athletes be paid will ruin their love for the game and damage their effort while playing football. And for that I call blasphemy. If the NCAA decides to pay college football athletes, I believe college football players would work even harder for a paycheck. They would put in even more effort, they would have more fun playing football while getting paid for it. This means more teams pushing for playoff spots, even more wackier college football plays, and even greater, more emotional games. What football fan wouldn’t want to watch that?

In the NCAA I-A Average Athletic Revenue for Schools by Sport;

Football brings in $29,653,946, which is more than Men’s Basketball, Men’s Baseball, Women’s Basketball, and Hockey combined.

And, you mean to tell me that the NCAA can’t afford to pay these college athletes, especially when they signed a billion dollar deals with television programs? Sure, they can afford to pay these athletes.

Dear NCAA, pay your college football players. Whether it’s a couple of hundred dollars a game or basing their pay on their performance, these athletes undoubtedly deserve it.