...of the most exciting sports events to view. The Super Bowl and NBA playoffs may be exciting too, but the key difference between professional athletes and collegiate athletes is that college athletes do not get paid. Many professional athletes play for money, so the passion may not be there. College athletes on the other hand, play for pride, their school, and for their team. The passion is obviously there, so it makes the game more intense, more energetic, and more intense. In recent years, a conflict has occurred as in deciding if college athletes should receive a salary or not. College athletes should not get paid...
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...students to their institutions. Universities depend on their athletes to produce and maintain the popularity of their school's name. According to NCAA rules, “You are not eligible for participation in a sport if you have ever: Taken pay, or the promise of pay, for competing in that sport” (NCAA Regulations 1).Even though the athletes are the one making the money for the college the students are not paid for their time spent playing sports. The NCAA has the capabilities to pay the students but it has not happen yet. The college athletes have no incentive to stay in college and finish their degrees, as many cannot afford to pay for the increasingly expensive college...
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...Should student athletes get paid? COMM/215 The question of should student athletes get paid is an argument that is growing in debate in recent years. Mostly pertaining to college Football and Basketball. Especially when the revenue generated from these sports rival those of its professional counterparts. Some would argue that receiving a full athletic scholarship is payment enough. Or, student athletes are no different from any college student working their way through college. However, these student athletes are not guaranteed full scholarships and deal mostly the same pressures of athletes that make their living playing these sports. For example, a four-year scholarship is not available for student athletes, students receive one year renewable contracts which are at the discretion of the coach. “The current one-year deals are, believe it or not, renewable at the discretion of coaches, who can effectively cut injured or underperforming “student athletes,” as the N.C.A.A. likes to call them” (Nocera, 2011). Student athletes can be cut for anything from performance on the field to behavioral conduct, or poor grades. These athletes are not afforded special privileges however, unlike their working student counterparts, they make their school millions of dollars in revenue each year. “College football and men’s basketball have become such huge commercial enterprises that together they generate more than $6...
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...Do you know how much a NBA player makes? An average of 5.15 million dollars! Most all athletes get paid in the same price range. All they really do is play a sport, 5.15 million dollars is way to much if you ask me. Although they work hard to get paid, they don't do much to get paid millions of dollars. So, do athletes really deserve high salaries? Some people argue that athletes do deserve high salaries, their reasoning is that athletes risk their lives while on the field and court. I think differently. What do you think? Do athletes really have a huge impact on the world do receive all that money? I don't think so. Just because they win the super bowl or NBA it doesn't mean they should get 5.15 million dollars. I'm not saying they shouldn't get money I'm just suggesting they shouldn't get so much. If you've seen commercials where NBA players or football players go and encourage children to...
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...organization, but do not get paid themselves. This scenario is true for college athletes. They put in work every week and end up bringing in money for the school that they attend. Athletes take countless hours every day to train for their sport. The main sports, mainly men’s college basketball and football, end up making money. College athletes should get paid because they bring in money for the college, acting as representatives of the school. College athletes spend about forty hours per week dedicated to their sport. Athletes have to go to practices, attend film room, and train every single day. This compares to people in the actual workforce because they get paid on a forty hour work week. Therefore, college athletes are basically working the same amount as those do in the workforce. Also, on top of time dedicated to their sport, athletes also have to focus on education, which is another eight to ten hours a week of class time and additional studying and homework on top of that. In addition to long weeks, paying college athletes would help them manage their money. Whether they end up going pro or not, they still need a sense of how to manage their money once they are out of college and on their own. They would know how to save additional money and make smart decisions on what to use their...
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...In a society where jobs are scarce, people are cutting back, and families are losing their homes, athletes are signing huge contracts worth tens of millions of dollars. If you were a teenager who just got his first part-time job you would think making minimum wage ($13) was a fortune. I mean, working part time could bring in a paycheck upwards of $200! Now imagine you’re Lebron James. Your first paycheck from your first job got you almost 13 million for three years. Now, $13 an hour doesn’t sound too great in comparison to athlete’s salaries. LeBron’s salary is just one example of the absurdity surrounding athlete’s paychecks. In 2009, the average salary for basketball player was around 6 million. An average baseball player made around 3 million, a hockey player, around 2 million and football players made an around 1 million. The reason athletes are paid so much is because of the fans that “sponsor” them. These are ordinary Americans who idolize their favorite athletes and are willing to pay hundreds to see them play. Not only this, but the popularity fans bring to athletes gets those athletes advertising jobs and other ways of making money outside of their sport. The middle class is getting paid less...
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...Derek Layton Professor Bird EN 300 11/18/14 Are College Athletes Going to be Paid? The NCAA is one of the top organizations in the world that brings in billions of dollars in revenue on college athletics alone most notably with college football and college basketball. Yes some of these athletes do get compensated with some sort of scholarship which does help out with their expenses but the chances of an athlete receiving an athletic scholarship that is worth anything meaningful is less than 2%. A full ride scholarship might as well be compared to as finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In cases that an athlete does receive a scholarship this does not come close to covering the expenses of tuition yet alone all of the other expense such has room and board, food and everything else a human being needs to survive. Playing a colligate sport is just as demanding as a full time job and according to a survey done by “[1] The NCAA in 2011 playing football required 43.3 hours per week; college baseball, 42.1 hours; men's basketball, 39.2 hours; and women's basketball, 37.6 hours.” So these athletes have no time with school and their respective sport to find a job to help them with other expenses so they have to rely on student loans, grants or their parents to help them get through school. This also makes it much more difficult for a student athlete to pursue a more rigorous degree such as sciences and engineering. One problem that I have with the NCAA is all...
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...Most athletes dream of becoming professionals in any sport they do, but they know to get there they have to go through many steps. One of those steps is playing in college, and most likely getting a full ride to that college. College sports are the closest thing there is to the professional level. But one controversy in college sports is whether or not the athletes should get paid. There are very many different opinions on this topic and they point out the pros and cons of giving college athletes allowances. In this next section you will learn some facts about college athletes. College athletes are considered an amateur level athlete that is not paid in salary but provided for by scholarships. The average cost that the scholarships cover for the student’s school is $200,000, for food, housing, tutors, travel, tuition and books. Most college football players spend 43.3 hours a week to their sport. That is 3.3 more hours than a typical American’s work hours a week. The NCAA just claims the athletes as students, even though the NCAA games and tournament schedule’s cause the students to miss class for nationally recognized games televised to bring in revenue. Meanwhile, the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament affects more than six days of classes. At some schools, the road to the NCAA men’s basketball championship may require student-athletes to miss up to a quarter of all class days during their spring semester. The NCAA currently produces nearly $11 Billion in annual revenue...
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...When it comes to the discussion regarding the issue whether or not college athletes, specifically football players, should get paid I am a firm believer there exists only two groups. Those who believe they should get paid, and those who don’t know enough information and believe they shouldn’t. Now I must specify, because I don’t believe that all athletes should get paid, but I’ll handle them after I address football players. There is without question a necessity for football players to receive compensation for what they do. They are essentially professional athletes that are working full-time second jobs. In terms of football, there practice hours are limited, just as the case in the NFL per the Collective Bargaining Agreement. They have to watch hours of game tape, go to hours of meetings, and then after they are completely exhausted they have to worry about their second job. Obviously they aren’t held to the same standard as regular applicants and people on scholarships so therefore they aren’t held to the same standards in terms of minimum GPA, but they still struggle all the same to adhere to these guidelines. While they may be able to take an easier course load, this is largely based upon the fact that due to their jam packed schedules they don’t have time to take, and succeed in, any other courses. Returning to my earlier point, the reason I believe college football players should get paid is because of the revenue the school generates, and essentially steals from them....
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...Should college Athletes be able to leave after their first season? AG: Many of us in this room, including myself either watch college sports or have a college that the cheer for, but what if that star player never came to that school because they weren’t required to? ID: Today I want to talk about the pros and the cons of athletes being able to leave after their first season. Ethos: Doing research about this topic has lead me to the conclusion that there are a lot of pros but also very many cons of leaving early. Preview: Today I will be telling you the pros and the cons of leaving early and if I think they should leave early. I would like to talk about the pros about leaving college first. It allows great athletes the ability to earn a living faster and provide for their families. They could but a lot of that money in the bank and start to save money for when they retire. The second pro is that it prevents an injury to occur in college, many college athletes feel that if they stay in college they could get injured and put their professional career at risk. If they decided to leave early, they will get paid great money and benefits. Lastly they would be able to save money and go and get a degree if they wanted because they have the money now. Now looking at the cons of leaving college early. If the student athlete doesn’t stay in college they won’t secure their future. For those fortunate enough to be an elite in their sport, receiving a degree is a good way to insure...
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...Should college athletes get paid?I say yes.College athletes struggle to make ends to meet,payment would help athletes leave school with more than just a degree,and paying athletes would only make the sports more competitive. Most college athletes struggle to make ends to meet.It basically means when the athletes spends most of their time practicing and studying they find themselves being late to the schools food court,that being said they are starving.At list land.com,they say "Athletes who spend ninety hours a week training and studying will often find themselves starving after well after the universities dining facilities have closed".That puts the athletes in a situation to get a jobs,to feed themselves.Sometimes athletes got to buy or rent suits for banquets.At list land.com they say"Renting or buying suits for mandatory banquets and fundraisers is expensive,especially when the athletes has no choice in whether or not they can attend." Another important reason why athletes should get paid is athletes would leave school...
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...Thomas Bessinger Professor Hortman February 18, 2014 Should Student-Athletes get paid? A very popular question that has been lingering around the sports world for sometime now is whether or not student-athletes should get paid. There are a lot of different opinions about this topic. The NCAA does not allow student-athletes to receive any type of benefits of any kind from the university; if the student-athlete does, he is no longer an amateur athlete and can no longer compete at the college level. This problem has been common over the past years and is causing athletes and universities to be penalized. If the NCAA would allow student-athletes to receive some benefits this would not be as common. Therefore, student-athletes should get paid because they are making money for their university, many student-athletes cannot have a job, and it is unfair for the NCAA to profit off of student-athletes. This reasoning has led many people to try and incorporate change in the collegiate world. Student-athletes, particularly at “big time” schools, have been bringing in millions of dollars in for their universities. The universities are selling jerseys that have the athletes’ names on the back, but the student-athletes are not receiving anything from that (Chen, 2013). Student-athletes are not even allowed to sell their jerseys or other apparel that is given to them by the university. In 2010 the NCAA did an investigation and found out that AJ Green sold one of his jerseys for $1000...
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...of 2 college coaches salaries combined and $0 is the number of 10 college athletes salary combined. The NCAA was founded 1906 which means athletes have not been getting paid for more than 100 years and a change has to come. College athletes should get paid for playing sports, Ncaa athletes are labor forced. Being a college athlete is a full time job. Ncaa athletes spend an average of 40 hours a week on their sport, that includes practices and games. They put so much time on their sport and they can’t work to make money to pay off their student debts that 40% of college athletes graduate with. Scholarships don't cover all the expenses of an athlete, the average scholarship is only $11,000. That’s a reason to pay college athletes, they have no other means to make money....
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...Each and every year, student athletes across in the U.S. sign the “Student-Athlete” form, waiving their right to receive payment for the use of their name and image. These students work hard and devote a lot of time to their college classes and also spend additional time practicing and playing for their university athletics. The NCAA defines student athletes as amateurs, who cannot receive payment for playing their sports. In the meantime their schools and coaches are making millions of dollars in salaries and endorsement deals and student athletes are not allowed to earn a single penny from their college athletic careers. This is why college athletes should get paid for playing. College athletics are a lucrative industry. The NCAA is a multi-billion dollar industry that generated over $845 billion last year due to their players’ ability to entertain and perform to their fullest extent at all times. The most visible college sports, such as men’s football and basketball, generate staggering sums of money. Let's take the University of Michigan as a good example. Coaches’ salaries are even more outlandish. For example NCAA men’s basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski, makes an astonishing 9.6 million and NCAA men’s football coach, Nick Saban, makes 7.3 million dollars. Athletes bring in money for their school in many different ways. Butler University saw a 43% increase in undergraduate applications after the University’s basketball team made it to the Final Four two years in...
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...Do you think college athletes should get paid? Many people don’t think college athletes should be getting paid to play. Some say it’s just like paying high school athlete’s to play. But it’s their choice to play, no one is forcing them to play for money. It’s not a job to play sports. Others think college athletes should be getting paid because it’s nothing like high school. Yes, I think college students should start getting paid to play the sport that they are in. It’s a lot of work being a college student. From doing all of your class work, then going to your job if you have one, going to your practice and or games, and then going back home to study. It’s an everyday routine. Also, for away games the athletes get...
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