Should College athletes get paid

A recent debate has been discussed for years and will never change. The debate is whether or not college football players or athletes in general should be paid for athletic or any other sources of income. College athletes are constantly getting ready to play professional sports and have been leaving college after one year at their respective college to pay the bills. For football a record number of underclassmen are heading to the dangerous world of The NFL and leaving behind a chance for a bright future job and not getting hurt physically or mentally and being that way for the rest of your life. As the NCAA says college students are amateurs and not employees. That is the way colleges can get away without paying their students extra money for athletic events. Even if college athletes get paid under the table, the NCAA will get wind of the trade and investigate what happened and the sports and media world will blow the exchange between two people completely out of proportion and the school will be known for their students to be getting paid illegally.  To avoid all these troubles college student athletes should just stop complaining because they are not professionals yet and can still get a college degree or certificate and if something would happen to them, the individual would always have the option of going back and applying for a job where they would not get hurt or a concussion that can change their attitude and thinking for the rest of their life. College students need to finish out until their academic goal is reached.