Should student athletes be paid?

Yes, I really think that student athletes should be paid because we spend over 40 hours a week with our sports and school together, more hours with our sport though. We have a strict schedule that we have to follow and if we miss or lack we have a consequence. just like a job. Thousands and thousands of fans come to watch games and they but jerseys and team items and the player don’t see it, but the NCAA is supposed to be a non-profit organization. There are situations where the smaller schools with less funds go and play a bigger school and the school gets paid off of it but the athlete who just got beat up and put his body on the line seen none of it. It’s just not fair, alot of these kids want to go and play at a college level just to better their lives. Just to provide themselves a better tomorrow. so many people get to touch the money that is brought in by hardworking athletes yet the athlete still hasn’t seen a penny.