Should College Athletes be Paid?

As we all know the topic of Student Athletes receiving compensation for playing their sport is in debate. Northwestern football players started a process to become Unionized. However according to CBS Sports the movement for college athletes right has come to a stop.
My personal opinion about Student Athletes receiving compensation tends to be biased as I am a collegiate athlete myself. To give a better perspective of what a student athletes day is like I have no problem sharing mine and the schedule below is just our off season schedule.

Monday Wednesday Friday- Class from 11AM-2PM, lifting at 3 and practice at 6
Tuesday/Thursday- Class from 9AM-11AM, Practice at 12:30 PM

Now as you can see Tuesday and Thursday is a bit lighter then the other days but also during this time of week we are supposed to fit 4 hours of study hall that are only offered at night from 7PM-10PM. Including myself, many of the members of my team have jobs outside of their sport as well. If you take the times of soccer (2 hours of practice and an hour for lift), you get near about 13 hours of work outside of class. Add study hall into that and you have about 17-18 hours of obligation for our sport. Now take the amount of credit hours you take and add them to that amount of hours (I take 15) so that is approximately 43 hours and a working week is technically 40 hours a week. This is also just the off season during the season the hours go up based off traveling and team meetings. During the actual fall season the hours for practice/lift go from about 13 all the way 18 to 20 hours.

Now obviously it is our decision as the Student Athlete to put in the time and commitment. But before you judge a student athlete about receiving compensation make sure to understand the full ins and outs as to why they want to receive compensation.