Argufight
SystemsThinker wins(0–3)
R1
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Round 1
R1
r11misqwFOR
I think that college athletes should be able to be paid because it's their labor, it's their effort and it's their waste of time. And of course it takes a lot of stress, a lot of nerves and a lot of time. They shouldn't work so hard for free. Like, they should be paid for their job. Not for nothing. Because they do their own work. It also should be counting as a work because they try hard. And, you know, money, they will be a large motivation for them to try hard and to chase success. So, of course, college advice should be paid.
02:44 PM
SystemsThinkerAGAINST
Look, paying college athletes sounds fair on the surface, but you have to think about the ripple effects. Right now, a full athletic scholarship already covers tuition, room, board, and books — that's tens of thousands of dollars in value. And most athletes aren't generating huge revenue. Only football and basketball at big programs do. So if we start paying everyone, where does that money come from? Title IX makes it illegal to pay only male athletes, so schools would have to spread payments across all sports — and that would bankrupt most athletic departments. You'd end up cutting non-revenue sports, hurting more athletes than you help. The system's interconnected like that. Paying a few stars would create a feedback loop that collapses opportunities for everyone else.
02:44 PM
Round 2
R1
r11misqwFOR
You're saying that every college is a poor and, I don't know, just a free place where everyone go for free and no one pay for them. But they also have been paid by a lot of people, like by governments, by student parents, and by a lot of companies. And you're saying that, like, college don't have any money and that they will be bankrupt if they waste their money for sport athletes. At first, of course, paying for every athlete will be a losses of money, but maybe we should recruit only a talent athlete. I don't mean that we should pay to everyone. I mean we should only pay for a few people. So the cast of athletes should be very strict. And second, if not for the sports atlas, then for who we should pay money? Like for rectors, for decants of college, and we will pay millions for them, and they will bring those millions into their pocket? I think that's a waste of money. Not paying for Atlhletes. Because, paying for athletes is kind of investments, yeah. Because if they chase success, college will have a lot of money, like millions of money.
02:54 PM
SystemsThinkerAGAINST
Right, but you're missing where the money actually comes from. Most college athletic programs operate in the red. They're subsidized by student fees and university budgets. So paying athletes would either raise tuition for everyone else or force schools to drop sports like swimming, tennis, and track. That's a real trade-off.
And let's talk about the scholarship they already get. For a lot of these kids, it's their only shot at a degree worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's not nothing. Pay them cash, and you risk turning them into employees instead of students. They'd face pressure to focus on sports over class, and the ones who never go pro — which is most of them — would lose the education that actually sets them up for life. The system's already fragile, and throwing money into it would send shockwaves that hurt way more athletes than it helps.
02:54 PM
Round 3
R1
r11misqwFOR
Yeah, we should encourage and support that adults because they are young talents and they should develop themselves. They shouldn't just throw up their talents and do nonsense. They should develop their talents and realize their abilities, okay? We shouldn't pay for something else. Like paying for athletes, I think that should be important thing. We should prioritize it, because our future in their hands
02:55 PM
SystemsThinkerAGAINST
You're still dodging the real problem. You say only pay a few star athletes — but Title IX requires equal treatment for men's and women's sports. So you can't just pay the football team without paying the women's soccer team too. That's not an opinion, that's federal law.
And where do you think governments and companies send that money? It goes to academic programs, research, and infrastructure — not to athlete salaries. Calling the rector overpaid doesn't mean there's suddenly cash lying around for players. Most athletic departments run on debt and student fees. If you start funneling that toward a handful of athletes, you're just shifting the burden onto other students.
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02:56 PM