Knightly post 14

This week the speech that stood out to me was the speech about college athletes and how they don’t get paid additional money on top of their scholarship to attend college.  The speech was so compelling because of all the facts he gave.  It is crazy to think how much the NCAA makes in a single year from college athletes giving their all and not getting anything but their scholarship in return.  One of the things that stuck out to me was that after winning a national championship one of Connecticut’s basketball players went to bed hungry because he couldn’t afford anything, and while this is going on the university is making a crazy amount of money.  After hearing this speech it convinced me that athletes at universities should be paid to play the sports they play.  Universities are making way to much from there college athletes and that is why the athletes need to be reimbursed for what they do.  They work so hard while the university sits back and hopes they win.  Some coaches get paid millions and millions of dollars while athletes only get a scholarship.   A scholarship does not cover everything a student athlete needs in college.