This topic interests me because I am a college athlete that spends most of my time practicing or attending classes making it hard for me to do much of anything else. This research question strongly affects me because as it stands it is very hard for student athletes that don't get a fair amount of money from parents or sources to do some of the things that they may want to do when they get a day off. Currently it is unfair towards the student athlete because they spend most of their hours working to better themselves and their teams for the university but they are not compensated for their hard work. While on the other hand a normal student can spend their extra time getting a job. Personally I see this as a problem every day, Such as when some teammates want to go out and do somethings and one or a few people get left out or the whole group ends up not going because they are running low on cash. They need the extra money that they get from their parents to pay for food when they run out of meals on their meal plan. I am qualified to write about this topic because I am a student athlete and I understand why this is a problem in college athletics.


Maxwell Strachan, a senior editor at the huffington post states that the NCAA could easily afford to pay players. He later goes on to quote many economics professors at major universities on whether they think that the NCAA and major schools have the resources to pay the players which they all said yes. Maxwell Strachan is a senior editor at the huffington post and a reliable source of information. This matters because if he was an unreliable source of information then you would not be able to trust the information that he writes about.The sources are represented in a biased way towards the payment of athletes. The article only gives evidence towards paying college athletes instead of also looking at the downsides.


This is an informative article about whether athletes should be paid for their participation in sports. The article outlines points from both sides about how the players need some kind of financial help and also that the Athletic Departments of the major schools cannot afford to pay the players. The author is Clay Travis and he is a sports journalist for fox sports and an expert in the sports world meaning that he has a vast knowledge of the ins and outs of athletics. Clay sympathizes with college athletes and their financial needs but also explains why it is unreasonable to ask to be paid by the NCAA and the athletic departments. 


This article is argumentative in saying that players should be paid for their contributions on the field. It goes into to detail telling about the day for a college athlete and saying that they don't have the time to make much money outside of school. Meaning that most college athletes are near completely broke. This article is written by Tyson Hartnett, who is a former college athlete meaning that he would have experienced this as well as seen many different kinds of athletes that came from many different backgrounds. Tyson only gives one side of the argument in this article. He does not give any arguments for the other side of the argument making the article completely one sided.

This research question is arguable because there are two distinct view points for this question. One of these sides says that student athletes should be paid and that it is viable for the NCAA and the athletic departments to do because they are non-profit organizations that should not be concerned with total income over the year. The other side of the argument says that athletes are already getting paid with a scholarship as well as that the NCAA and athletic departments don't have the funding to pay all of the student athletes. Within my three articles one of them opposed the payment of student athletes while another was for it and the third one shows both sides of the argument. Two of these articles provided more support for my argument as well as gave me ideas about what the other side would argue against the argument. I can improve my research question by making it more specific and potentially changing the question from "why athletes should be paid" to "how athletes can be adequately compensation for their hard work". 
