College Athletes should know not all payment comes in paycheck

This article from USA Today College is an opinion piece, to determine the reasoning for what student athletes are not compensated. It is an argument for the value of education, and why that is a worthy price for the athletes services, and what they produce for the school's revenue. Caitlyn Finnegan makes the value claim, that students are in college to learn and be educated. She also states the fact that scholarships are worth 42,224 a year for a four year private college. Not to mention the average athlete, if they do continue playing, will not play past 30. The claim is meant to say that the education in the end, becomes a much more important goal to attain. She says that athletes need to realize that the majority of revenue brought in by athletes is due to the University's overall brand, not individual athletes. These are arguable facts, and although each player contributes to the worth of the program, the idea of signing a dollar value to each athlete doesn't make sense within our current system. She makes a very good claim here, argued by evidence of value and fact. She does not believe that a policy change is in order.

http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/opinion/opinion-college-athletes-should-know-not-all-payment-comes-in-paycheck