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Abstract

College sports are one of the most talked about debate in the United States. This study examined 20 student athletes at University of Louisville to see if college athletes should be paid. All players varied between different sports and that put more of an impact on the results. The results that have been taken show that most students strongly agree with getting paid for playing their sport.

Introduction

Currently in the United States some college players are getting paid on a scholarship. This Varies on how good of a player you are in your sport coming out of high school, however in recent research college athletes are needing more than just a scholarship. In this experiment we are seeing if it’s a struggle or their happy with the treatment of money they get.

Method

Participants:

For this experiment there were 20 participants total in the survey. Seven of them were females and thirteen of them were males used in the data research. All participants were various ages of college athletes at the University of Louisville. All participants were to fill out a printed out survey about their opinions on whether or not college athletes should be paid. They were given the option strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree. After asked the main question they were then asked if they should be paid in scholarships or in a salary payment. Then asked lastly what sport they personally play at school.

Observation:

These groups of students were face to face asked questions that were put together, over a period of days. After all 20 students were asked the same question, and while most people said strongly agree a couple said strongly disagree. When interviewed on why the couple said no they said they don’t need more than there school paid for.

Results

In this table it shows the results of the students being asked the question “should college athletes be paid?”  It shows that most students strongly agree on topic and a few agree and just a couple strongly disagrees.  Out of the 16 that fell under the strongly agreed column, 5 were basketball players, 7 were football players, 1 was cheer and 3 were soccer.  Under the agree column 2 of them were swimmers and 1 was a football player. Lastly under the strongly disagree column there was one Person that voted and they were a cheerleader.

Figure 1

·         Amount of students

that surveyed 

Figure 1:

In figure one it represents the amount of students that’s believe college athletes should be paid.

Discussion

This study suggests that the more time put into the sport the more strongly you agree on getting paid for the sport that you play. With a bigger variety of sports that our played on campus that could of been interviewed could possibly change the average of how many people agree on college athletes being paid. Further research could happen by having more questions asked and more students participating.