...The NCAA makes 800 million dollars on their basketball program every year. But the athletes that work hard not only to become the best they can be, but they are also representing the colleges that they play at do not get any portion of the money. NCAA president Mark Emmert says, “They are not professionals so they should not be getting millions of dollars at all” (Romans). Colleges rake in about 800 million dollars a year in just the sport of basketball so why are not the college athletes that play at a very high elite level not getting paid. CNN reporter say that the colleges make 800 million but they bring in 500 million in endowment (Romans).Endowment is just an income or form of property that has been given. The college players are elite players if they play for Division I are elite players but they not there is elite players in every college including small colleges. Division II and Division III colleges get Division I athletes as well so they should be getting an income as well....
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...College sports generate billions of dollars a year in revenue why is that not enough to pay those that create that revenue; moreover, why have those that help create a billion dollar revenue is also mandated to pay fees toward the athletic department. Many athletes is able to attend college by receiving a full or partial athletic scholarship. This athletic scholarship allows students to pursue careers that would be otherwise far fetch due to that many come from low income families that cannot afford to go to college. Due to this terrible fact does that mean that providing an athletic scholarship is all that a college athlete receive as reward for their hard work and determination to become successful? College athletes should be able...
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...College athletes are discriminated against. The top athletes in popular sports are not fairly compensated for the fame and revenue that they bring their respective college. Athletes deserve to share in the wealth created due to their efforts on the courts and fields of their universities. Athletes should benefit from their fame and likeness just as everyone else at their colleges and universities. They should be able to take endorsements like their coaches and students in other aspects of college besides athletics. If a local clothing store wants an athlete to come in and sign autographs for a few hours during a store sale, why shouldn’t they be allowed to take that opportunity? Music students are allowed to accept money for going and playing a gig at a local bar. What makes athletes different? Nobody in America has to deal with the restrictions on income that the NCAA imposes. Actors and musicians can go off to college, while they are on a scholarship, and still make money off their talent. It is morally wrong to prevent student athletes from doing the same thing. (Patrick Hurby qtd. in Reed np)...
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...Why is it that people who have a job get paid, but determined college athletes don't? College athletes wake up every single day and work day and night to practice the sport they specialize in. These athletes dedicate most of their work for their sport, however don't get rewarded for it. Similar to when you work for your ignorant manager, yet he/she keeps the money for themselves and don't pay you. This exemplifies how college athletes must feel when they lay foot on to the court, the field, and the ice. This isn't fair and college athletes must be paid because they work with determination just like professional athletes, maybe even to a greater extent, since they also have to balance their school schedule. Knowing all this, college athletes deserve to be paid for all the effort and hard work they put into their sport....
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...they realize just how much they can charge CBS for the rights to stream next year's saturday night college football games. Needless to say, profit will be a plenty for both parties once this game is over. Tragically, though, the players will earn nothing. This is wrong. College athletes should be paid as if they were working a full-time job, because they do work full time, there are a...
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...Don’t you hate it when you work so hard your whole life for something and get no help at all? That’s how college athletes feel. They work every day to achieve their dream, while participating in classes, and having a job to pay off college fees. As many of you may be wondering, why should we just pay for college athletes if they are already half way to achieving their dream? College students go to school to achieve their dream and they are not going to reach it by having such a large payment. A report from Top college athletes worth 6 figures stated “The average fair market value of top-tier college football and men's basketball players is over $100,000 each, and the athletes are entitled to at least a portion of that, a new report from an advocacy group argues....
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...job. Now imagine not getting paid enough to feed your family. Many college athletes today face a severe lack in economic benefits due to the restrictions to uphold the amateur status enforced by the NCAA. The removing of the restrictions, improving of the educational experience, and the sufficient funding would constitute the paying of college athletes. The restrictions to uphold the amateur status regarding the economic benefits of college athletes set by the NCAA are considered unjust by many. The database article “College Athletes Should Be Paid” by Eitzen contends that athletes make money for their universities, but they do not receive any compensation for their thirty-to-forty hours a week that they spend with their sport on top of attending classes. Many college athletes’ image is also being used as a way to make money for the universities for which they play. For example, selling the athlete’s jersey number...
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...getting paid. This is the life of a college athlete. If going to school isn't already stressful enough, imagine adding practice multiple times a day, working a job (if possible), doing homework, and finding time to relax all into that one 24-hour period. College athletes should get paid because their restricting schedules denies them the opportunity to work. The National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) is a multi-million dollar non-profit association in charge of thousands of athletes. The 460,000 plus athletes compete in 24 sports year-round which are divided into divisions appropriate for the school of their attendance. Of those 460,000 plus athletes, none of them receive any type of payment for their services legally. They can receive things of monetary value illegally, but this would unnecessarily if they got paid for their services. People or even you may wonder why this topic is important. The importance of this topic is that it's been a rising issue for years but there has never been an answer to this issue. Hopefully, I can help with the issue but for now let's discuss why they should get paid. The famous Ball brothers Lonzo (19) and LaMelo (15) were both scouted and drafted from early on in their basketball careers. They...
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...players filed a petition fighting for their right to be paid as “employees” of their university. They filed this petition because they believed that due to the amount of time and work that they put in towards their football program they should be compensated for it. However, getting the opportunity to play a sport in college should be a privilege rather than a job, seeing as the sport is almost always one which you love to compete in and enjoy. After all, the only reason that these people are on a team is because their school and coaches offered them the chance to play, so why should they have the opportunity to get paid for it? Because of this, I believe that college athletes should...
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...OWL; best wishes with revising your paper! *Strengths of the essay: Thanh , thank you for submitting your assignment for review. I am Ann B., your writing tutor. First, I want to point out a strength I noted when I read your paper. This sentence in the introduction presents a question and then answers it: College athletes are supposed to be the best of the best on that level, so why do college athletes not get paid? The question sets up the argument nicely for the reader! Now let’s move on to some areas that need revision. Content Development: A direct quotation like this one is not a good topic or first sentence: McCourt states “The athletes are ones who put in hours of practice and training” ( Evan Rosenfeld and Scarlett McCourt). Your audience may not understand why this quoted passage is important. The topic sentence should present a main point about athletes being paid in your own words. The first point is the hectic schedule. Can you write a topic sentence that introduces this point? I note that the second body paragraph does have a topic sentence introducing a point from the thesis in your own words: Another reason to why college athletes should get paid is they need money for expenses. Can you write a similar topic sentence for the first body paragraph as well, Thanh? Then the reader can see the first main point as easily as the second! For more tips, see Developing Powerful Paragraphs. *Thanh 5901461 has requested that you respond to the Organization:...
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...With Student Athletes Almost every student coming out of high school would like to further their education at a college or university. Unfortunately, many students cannot afford the cost of attending college. This leaves students with few options, either abandon their hopes and join the workforce with no college education. The other option is to take on loans resulting in massive student debt after graduation. Another option, which I will be focusing on, is to receive a scholarship to compete in college sports. There is a catch if one decides to take this route, athletes are not allowed to make or accept any compensation whilst attending the university. This has led to players controversially getting kicked off teams and losing their scholarships. This issue has people torn as to whether the students should be paid or not. Journalists use similar rhetorical strategies to try to convince their readers despite having opposing views of the same topic. One person...
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...psychological mechanisms of movement. I aspire to be part of a sports team’s medical staff in the future. This is the only thing I see myself doing in the future. I love sports and I am also interested in human anatomy. There is nothing else I am passionate about besides sports. I would prefer to work with an NCAA team. I also plan on minoring in Sports Management. I often think about the worldwide debate, should college athletes be paid? People argue that they are paid through free education, food and a place to stay. Others argue that they should be paid because they...
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...| College Football and Pay for Play | | | | | | Introduction “The rising dollar value of the exploitation of athletes is obscene, is out of control.” -Roger Noll, Economics Professor Emeritus, Stanford The whole purpose in researching this topic was based on the fact that the researcher is a fan of college sports, football and basketball especially. As the researcher has grown into adulthood and come to understand that with most things in life, it’s all about business in some form or fashion. So with that being said, as in any business situation, laborers get paid for revenue they work to produce. “The NCAA's current men's basketball tournament agreement with CBS and Turner is worth an average of more than $770 million per year, and the current Bowl Championship Series television deal – money that goes to conferences and then is distributed to schools, with no NCAA involvement – is worth $180 million per year. The new college football playoff, which starts in the 2014 season, will be worth about $470 million annually to the conferences.” (Cohen & Russo, 2013) This is money that is created through the blood, sweat, and tears of the athletes. On multiple occasions, the researcher has participated in and listened to many arguments on how a scholarship is equal enough payment for student-athletes. The researcher has always found that theory to have a multitude of flaws though, and that’s mainly because common knowledge tends to show that things...
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...Issues Analysis is “Should college be required to go pro in any sports today?”. The reason for this being an issue in sports is that lots of talent is going to waste today due to these people either being injured, or not passing college. This is a big issue because college can be a very hard journey to go through and can lead to many problems along the road. Analysis Argument for: Athletes should be able to make their own decisions and control their own future in their sport career. For some people, college is almost all risk with little reward, just one injury can end a career and they aren’t paid so much as a monthly salary/allowance for their playing time. Rookie contracts...
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...Play: An Ethical Analysis of the Student-Athlete Compensation Dilemma Group 2: Julie Burnett Christopher Fincham Revati Kailasam Catherine Kondo Teresa Seim Ethics and Professionalism in Accounting Andrew Dill ACG 6835 Fall 2013 Introduction The college sports industry is a large industry in America which is estimated to produce $797 million dollars for the 2012-13 season (NCAA). Of these millions, not one penny will go to any of the 400,000 plus college athletes under NCAA rules (NCAA). This however, was not always the case. Prior to the formation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1906, student groups frequently hired players without the stipulation that they must also be students at the university (NCAA). Due to these circumstances and poorly regulated play that often led to injuries, the NCAA was established to provide a safe and fair ‘playing field’ for student-athletes. However, today this regulatory board is not seen as beneficial by all members of society, and is especially negatively scrutinized by top performing student-athletes. In 2005, NCAA Football had an estimated total attendance of over 43 million compared to the NFL of over 17 million, while NCAA Basketball had estimated total attendance of over 30 million compared to the NBA of over 21 million (Humphys, 2008). Despite having more viewers, college athletes received no pay while professional players earned millions. This has prompted college athletes to argue that the...
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