...Cameron Fundamentals of Speech The NCAA Brothel The NCAA Brothel For many years, the NCAA college athlete organization has been a huge success with fans all over America. Millions of people attend big tournaments and exhibition games on the regular basis. Sports are no longer fun and games; it’s a business. Universities make an ample amount of money due to the praise college sports receive. Yes, some players on the team do go to school with a free scholarship, but is that it? People would be truly grateful to obtain a scholarship for an expensive university, but the situation that college athletes are in has to be examined closely. You can even compare the college athletes to your local prostitute. They are using their bodies for the income growth of huge universities, which will be the pimp. The school receives money from ticket sales, television contracts, sport-related merchandise, and many other sport-related revenue builders. The income that the universities obtain compared to what the athletes earn is nothing, a ratio of 1:0. Student athletes should be paid because they risk their health, it’s not fair financially, and it leads to students doing illegal acts. During the act of playing a competitive and physical sport, there are health risks that each player takes. Basketball players become injured all the time during playing their sport. Whether it’s an ACL tear, meniscus tear, broken ankle, there are all critical injuries that may jeopardize one’s...
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...Dustin Davis Mrs. Herr English 102 12 April 2016 College Athletes Should Be Paid Many people in the United States say that college athletes should not get paid because they already receive a scholarship. Did you know that college athletes miss quality class time to play in tournaments and televised games? What happens when that scholarship is revoked, or for the athlete that only receives a partial scholarship or not one at all? The majority of college athletes put more time into playing their sport than an employee does working a full time job. Student athletes are also core members of the University’s marketing team. How are college athletes supposed to pay for tuition and everyday expenses if they are not paid for what they do for the school? Also, a sports injury could prevent a college athlete from ever playing again. College athletics have gained immense popularity over the past few years. The NCAA is a billion-dollar industry and has been for a long time. Due to the increased ratings of college athletics, the NCAA will continue to rise. Therefore, college athletes should be paid. To begin, college athletes miss classes to play in tournaments and televised games, reducing the quality of their education. According to Marc Edelman, Forbes contributor, “The men’s college basketball teams would miss up to a fourth of their classes due to the tournaments they participate in” (“NCAA”). College athletes should receive some type of pay for this because they are risking the...
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...College Athlete Compensation: Primary Research Review Phillip Richard Cross Oakland University Rochester, MI Abstract This primary research paper explores the topic of college athletics, and if student athletes receive fair compensation for their sporting services. As to how this question was answered, it was conducted with two separate interviews. One of them was with Ben Anderson, my former varsity basketball coach, and also Matt Okaiye, a close friend who plays college football at Michigan State. The main findings of this research was that college athletes receive a great deal of fair compensation, as scholarships and publicity are the primary focus to why. For athletic scholarships, we see that the student athletes receive numerous amnesties and benefits that compensate them extremely well. Publicity is the same way, as the athletes have a large amount of attention on them which leads to economic and compensated value. This research will ultimately lead to the final project which will be on the argument that college athletes should not be paid. College Athlete Compensation The notion of paying college athletes has been an ongoing debate for decades. With college sports continuing to gain popularity and revenue increasing for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), people have questioned whether college athletes should be benefited beyond their athletic scholarships. The question is, do college athletes receive fair enough compensation for their services...
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...and get away from the bullying in my previous school and get a fresh start and I believe that, this was one of the greatest decisions I have made. In this school I have been pushed to achieve more and my confidence in my education and in myself has grown tremendously. I’m currently going down a new path where I am constantly aiming for more and where I don’t let my life situations at home deter me from working harder in fact I use it as motivation. In my retake year I have done things that I would have never thought I was capable of doing. I achieved higher grades, I gained a place on the EY smart futures programme and I plan on doing more and being greater. I knew that Birmingham was where I needed to be, after talking to a Birmingham student and hearing about all the...
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...THE RATE OF INVOLVEMENT OF KPTM KL’S STUDENTS IN SPORTS AT THE COLLEGE Prepared by : MUHAMMAD AEZHAD BIN AZHAR CVB130724387 MUHAMMAD FARHAN BIN ABDUL RAHMAN CVB130724287 RAHMAN MUSTAQIM BIN KHOSAIM CVB130724279 MUHAMMAD AIMAN BIN MOHD HUSNI CVB130724388 Prepared for : Madam Jaaz Suhaiza Jaafar Submitted in partial fulfillments of the requirement of the 106km course. TABLE OF CONTENTS NUMBER | CONTENTS | PAGES | 1. | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 3 | 2. | INTRODUCTION | 4 | 3. | OBJECTIVES | 5 | 4. | METHODOLOGY | 6-7 | 5. | GRAPH | 8-11 | 6. | CONCLUSION | 12 | 7. | APPENDIX TABLE | 13 | 8. | APPENDIX | 14-17 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all,we really want to thankful to Madam Jaaz Suhaiza Jaafar because allowed me to do this mini project until we’ve successfully completed it.We want thankful too because madam helped us a lot such as give instructions or order how to make it properly done until we’ve finished it. If we didn’t get help from madam,its really hard to us for completed it in a short time. We also want to very thankful too all our 50 respondents which all of them its from KPTM KL students who was in diploma,degree or professional. They all was nice and very friendly with us and nobody refuse to give a little time to fill up our questionnaire. We really want to wish thanked you so much because without them we can’t finished our mini project. Last but not least,thank you so much too our...
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...Smith, Janae Christopher Shaw English 105 20 July 2015 Downside of College Sport College athletics have been a part of the university system for many years. An unfortunate by-product of college athletics has been the exploitation of student-athletes. This paper will discuss the disappointing reasons in which student-athletes have been exploited and why reforms are needed in college athletics. Which explores the effect of money on college sports programs and the way in which college sports programs can distract everyone from academics. It will discuss some of the methods the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) has employed in an attempt to cure this exploitation. This will fairly compensate student-athletes for their work while preserving the amateur nature of college athletics. It will show 3 reason why it is most disappointing, and about how college sports operate. One thing that disappointing about college sport is that they don’t get pay for playing their sport. Dan Zirin believe that colleges needs to start giving back to the athletes who make the money for the colleges. The athletes are the one who bring in the huge profits to their schools but they don’t receive nothing in return. I think the athletes that play the sport should get a little of money because there working hard for their team to won and bringing money to the schools. Even though they have media attention and promotional commercials many people don’t know that they player aren’t getting...
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...Generally, sports play a considerable role in our lives. Everyone enjoys a sport in their own different ways: some do sports and other half enjoys to follow it. Giving students opportunity to be part of sports in college will definitely have positive sides on college as well as on students. As an example, we can notice how top colleges like Harvard or Stanford recruit young athletes. Usually, those athletes are becoming prosperous and making good names for the schools. However, in our college situation is totally different. Even if the college has established sports, their main goals are not to improve our college or to have a beneficial influence on students. However, we can alter this miscues by reconstructing athletics of our school, and...
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...At some colleges, college athletics are a key source of income, and they attract 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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... Stress: In Collegiate Student Athletes Most students who graduate high school go on to continue their education at a College or University. Students who are talented enough also play at sport at their college. With the overwhelming workload that student athletes face in college, along with their commitment to sports can cause an immense amount of stress in their life. Stress is an emotional or mental strain put on the body and mind from demanding circumstances. As opposed to the traditional college student, student athletes have more pressure on them. About 400,000 student athletes participate in athletic games each year, and thousands receive scholarships to do so (Stern). Setting aside the stress that every student already faces when transitioning from high school to college, being a collegiate athlete on top of that just makes it more difficult. Stress is so powerful, it can become the sole thing that can cause an athlete to quit their sport, causing them to lose their scholarship or even drop out of school. Several occasions an athlete’s performance is negatively affected by the stress that is put on them. Being relied on heavily by their school, parents’ expectations to succeed in school, and by coaches and teammates to perform well in their sport, can be too much on a student athlete. All the stress that the students face also has proven to be very unhealthy. Most people also do not realize that student athletes in college have a greater risk of...
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...Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. C Team BCOM/275 Robert May Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. Should college athletes be paid to play? That is the question and discussion being presented not only in this paper but also across many colleges in these United States. There are many pros and cons to college athletes being paid to play their sport, which makes this is a very controversial topic. Are the sport scholarships and uniforms enough? Should schools really pocket all that money they make in revenue from the sports teams? Many moral, ethical and legal issues can be raised in the idea of paying college athletes to play, on both the pro and con side of the issue. Should an athlete receive a full ride scholarship and also be paid from the school to play? Many big universities may be able to handle such a thing, but what about the small colleges that do not receive such a large amount of revenue from their sports teams? Can or should schools pay all the athletes or only the top players? What about Title IX, how will potentially paying athletes be affected by it? All these topics will be discussed, as well as Team C’s final decision on this matter. PROS In 2012 the athletic revenue reported by University of Texas was $163.2 million, Alabama $143.4 million, Ohio State $142.0 million and Michigan $140.1 million (Berkowitz, Schnaars, & Upton, 2014) Coaches like Nick Saban (Alabama Football) and Mike Krzyzewski (Duke Men’s Basketball) make in excess of $7 Million...
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...division one schools spend $91,936 per athlete; Is this too much? Many people believe colleges spend loads of money. Whereas others agree to spending money on athletic programs. Many schools have benefited from the exposure of the sports teams by the noticing of perspective students, the profit made by the sports, and earning money from championships. Colleges should be involved in sports and then earn money for other programs. The colleges with sports make a profit for the school. In an article by CNN Money, it says "Louisville basketball makes a forty-million-dollar profit on the year." Also 123 division one schools profit and earn 315 million dollars combined. It would be beneficial to have a well-built sports team if they make the college that much of a profit. For this reason, colleges should spend money on sports teams....
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...deserve to be paid There's a story about one of the most dominant college football players of all time. Reggie bush, USC running back, and 2005 Heisman winner. Bush and family was reported receiving over 250,000 dollars in gifts. This first became suspicious when Bush showed up to the heisman ceremony in a limo. Bush was later investigated years later, and was USC had their Orange Bowl stripped from them, due to knowing about Bush receiving gifts. Bush was also deprived from his Heisman trophy. This brings up the topic of college athletes college athletes receiving money and should it be illegal? This has been a very controversial topic lately and some believe that the process of full ride scholarships should stay in college...
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...to attend college after high school. This is still a problem in today's society. On the other hand, young men and women who are eligible to get a athletic scholarships are closer to reaching their goal and controlling sufficient funds to better educate themselves. Many pros and cons could be argued for and against academic scholarships, but the real question is does Athletic Scholarships benefit college athletes and the university's ? The first reason athletic scholarships can benefit the university is by being able to help build a strong athletic program . The college has to decide on whether or not to give out scholarships to their athletes or just...
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...my chosen company which is Nervi College. For my chosen company I will be choosing 2 functional areas which are the sports department and the senior management team. The information that this functional area needs and uses The sports department need information from students to show external fund supporters how the funds are being used to provide equipment and facilities for students to use in the college. The sports department obtains this information by collecting data on students that use sports equipment or enter facilities like the gym. Also this data helps the sports department know what sort of things students are interested in. The information collected from students that borrow sports equipment or enters a sport facility like the gym is reliable as students wear their ID cards which help identify the student to the sports department. The sports department uses surveys data that help the college on up to date things or changes that are happening outside the college and also identify gaps in their owns systems. The strategic decision Made by this functional area The strategic decision made by the sports department is to increase the size of the college gym. They have come to this strategic decision as the gym was always crowded and students were complaining a lot also the sports department have come to this decision via the information they gathered on a college survey asking all students what improvement should the sports department work on. The advantage...
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...College Athletes brings about 12 billion annually and one billions to the NCAA, but where that money goes? Do athletes deserve that money? Basketball and football are the main sports in colleges and the visits had increase. Meanwhile, college athletes should not get paid because they are not forced to play, they already receive scholarships, and not all college sports bring money. First of all, college athletes should not receive salary with the fact that they play voluntary. Students decide to involve in sport world with the purpose of getting experience for their future. A member of NCAA, Horace Mitchell describe that “Student-athletes are amateurs who choose to participate in intercollegiate athletics as part of their educational experience”...
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