Financial Justice: College Athletes Should be Compensated

Over the years, college athletics has progressed from a business centered around amateurism to a multi-million dollar industry year after year, with some of the top college programs bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars. All of the profit comes from the product on the field. One should not lose site of the human factor. In college, this “product” is students— amateurs who are recruited by colleges and universities to play the sport that they love. However, as college programs continue to make millions in profit, college athletes do not see any money from the program that they help, and so it is not clear if their humanity is being fully respected