Imagine a world where college athletes work harder every day and progress faster than ever, because they get a glimpse of what the real world is like. Firstly, I'll be stating my definition. Government believes that by paid salaries, we mean month to month or game to game payments that can change depending on the player's performance. Secondly, the problem with college athletes nowadays is that majority of D3,D2,D1... players never end up making it to professional games. And they ever get to see what they would have gotten if they worked harder. Third, there are two major reasons as to why my side believes that these athletes should be paid by schools. The first argument being, If college athletes are paid salaries. They can get a glimpse of what the real competitive professional world would look like. By understanding how they would get paid and when through things like contracts. My second argument is that, because of the lack of 'reward' many athletes don't get today. They never end up feeling like what they do is worth anything. Let's take popular twitch streamer Marlon for example. He quit his dreams of being a professional basketball player because he didn't feel like he could go to the next level. For these reasons, we believe college athletes SHOULD be paid because of the benefits it brings to the sports world.

First of all, the opposition never mentioned WHY they lose money. Secondly, their statement saying that colleges already rely on student fees is strong, however we aren't accounting for the money they COULD earn if they win things like competitions. As stated in my first argument, I said they would be paid depending on how they performed in the matches, if they don't perform well enough to earn any reward at all, the team will get paid nothing. This is why colleges wouldn't need to cut other sports, because with the motivation and drive the athletes are getting by knowing that they can get paid (money back) would push them to playing better match and match. And if the other team tries to argue that motivation in itself is unreliable, then we can propose the idea of only letting competent people join the team. There could also be separate teams that DONT get paid but are in training to join the actual team. Just like in the sport soccer, big clubs have A, B, and C teams that get paid different margins because their skill level just isn't good enough.

Firstly, I said the salary they get paid is from money earnt by competitions, and other fees. This in itself won't hurt other sports teams because we are not cutting their funding to pay other athletes. Secondly, the opposition says "it feels like picking favorites". But in my previous argument, I stated that only players with enough skill to back up the main team can be paid. Which is why my side proposed the idea of having multiple teams, and the main team which gets sent to competitions are the ones that get paid.