Over the last several years, collegiate sports have increased its popularity across the United States. It doesn’t matter if its basketball, football, or baseball, college athletics has been increasing the reputations of certain Universities, along with the surplus of revenue. For instance, in an article published by Tim Griffin on ESPN, “The Orlando Sentinel had a chart earlier this week where it ranked all of the FBS schools revenues revenues include both generated revenue from areas such as ticket sales and sponsorships and also allocated revenue that includes tuition waivers, direct institutional support and money from student fees no surprise that Texas ranks as No. 1 in the country with revenues of more than $120 million.” (ESPN) Even with this massive revenue figures, not one collegiate athlete is rewarded for their hard work. Permitting to the NCAA rule, “You are not eligible for participation in a sport if you ever: Taken pay, or the promise of pay, for competing in that sport." As a result of this law, black markets are created to pay these athletes under the table to help pay for college tuition and college loans. Many of the amateur athletes have no drive to stay at these universities and finish their education, because of the steady increase in college expenses. The main argument against paying college athletes is they’re just amateurs representing their colleges, but if NCAA doesn’t start compensating the athletes then the strength of college athletics will die down. The surplus in these schools revenue is strictly correlated to the hard work and performance of these athletes. The work ethic from these athletes are going unnoticed and are practically just memories to how these amateurs have helped their schools fill bleachers, gain popularity and having their jersey sold to fans across the nation. The athletes go above and beyond to bring in revenues for these Universities, but when it’s all said and done, aren’t rewarded financially. This lack of payment hasn’t even occurred in any other workplace so why should it be dismissed in this situation when these student-athletes are putting their all into representing their respective programs. According to the NCAA, “student-athletes’ participation in athletics is just another part of their entire education, not the primary purpose for attending college” (Meggyesy, 2000). In defense to this argument, some athletes like myself have to use their athletic ability to get them in and through college. Everywhere else but collegiate spo