Should NCAA athletes be paid?

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Question: Should NCAA athletes be paid?
Position‹2 of 2: NCAA athletes should not be paid

This position holds that NCAA athletes should not be paid. It argues that they are students first, already compensated through athletic scholarships — and that introducing salaries would force other programmes to be cut, while deciding who gets paid would be hopelessly arbitrary.

Supporting arguments · 2

Determining which college athletes get paid is too arbitrary to work.
Paying players seems simple on the surface. In reality, it is a logistical nightmare.
Paying student-athletes would result in other programs being cut
No school has enough money to pay student-athletes without cutting other programs.