College athletes are given such cast representation in media, and in many cases able to preform equally to even greater than their professional counterparts. Moreover colleges are composed of adult members, therefore they should be given equal representation in funding and pay for their performance.

While many of your claims are valid reasons for your side, your premise relies on a fallible system. For example, you stated that sports departments and universities would have many sports cut simply due to a lack of budget. However, this is due to the fact that colleges and sports departments spend millions on underperforming coaches that ultimately create costs instead of benefits. Moreover, many sports departments operate to appear as non-profit organizations, spending their revenue on philanthropic efforts such as luxury lounges and additional unnecessary expenses. If colleges students were payed, it wouldn’t cut the budget of sports departments, rather it would replace the luxurious spending of sports departments on representing athletes who do not get a dime for their performance regardless of how well they do.

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