...non-profit athletic programs at the college level. Endowments are interest-bearing accounts that have limits to how often you can withdraw from it. The original money that is invested is basically untouchable but the interest is what can be used. Most endowments yield a 5% interest rate. For such athletic programs like the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who has around $212,000,000 in endowment funds dedicated to athletics, the yearly interest can be rather large. The endowment interest is then used on specific things like coach’s salaries, team expenses and helping fully fund a team with their scholarship ceiling allotted by the NCAA. As this pertains to wrestling, 9.9 scholarships is the maximum allowed for Division I NCAA collegiate wrestling team. The wrestling team at The Citadel is not currently fully funded, allowing about 8 scholarships. In order to fully fund the team, which would allow for better recruiting and make for less of a financial burden on the school, a full scholarship endowment would cost about $400,000 dollars. The usable interest at a 5% interest...
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...Ronald C Edwards, Jr. Mrs. Thomas English 1010 December 22, 2010 College Athlete, Looking For A Paycheck? NCAA Said, “NO”. For almost, a decade now the controversial question is, “Should College Athletic, be paid pay for their performances that generated profit for the colleges”. Each year college teams across the board have large annual profits. Many feel the player should receive a portion of the profits for living expenses or placed into a trust fund for their life after college. Teetering with the thoughts it seems as if they should get something for their efforts but, most of the athletic are in under scholarships that cover tuitions, board, and books. The National Collegiate Athletic Association also known as, “NCAA” provides allowance for expenses pertaining to travel and equipment. Therefore, further compensation seems irrelevant or let’s say redundant,” Is it”? Or maybe a five hundred to one thousand dollar a month cut to each player is the answer; they are generating large amounts of income for someone. This sounds like a job to me. For decades the following conference: Southeastern Conference, Pac 10, Big Ten, Atlantic coast, Big East, and Big 12, have been big TV deals for ESPN, CBS, NBC, and Fox sports networks. These networks provide millions of dollar in revenue to the schools each year, to broadcast there game. On top of the TV networks, many of the conferences have their own TV networks. The conference provides the cable company with exclusive gaming...
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...Virginia University of Lynchburg Academic Advisor for Athletics Strayer University-Professor Frankenhauser Bus 520 Virginia University of Lynchburg Academic Advisor for Athletics In this paper I will discuss and explain the variety of motivational theories and job design considerations. To include, how workplace stress contributes to individual performance along with how the communication process has an impact on an organization. I will use resources to research issues in organizational behavior. Lastly, I will clearly and concisely talk about the organizational behaviors. The mere definition of an Academic Advisor for Athletics is a professional who promotes the integrity of their profession by providing principles and quality servers to support one another as they share information, resources and expertise in their efforts to empower student-athletes to become more productive individuals through educational and personal development (nfoura.org, 2012). To include academic advising, based in the teaching and learning mission of higher education, is a series of intentional interactions with a curriculum, a pedagogy, and a set of student learning outcomes. Academic advising synthesizes and contextualizes students' educational experiences within the frameworks of their aspirations, abilities and lives to extend learning beyond campus boundaries and timeframes (wikipedia.org, 2012). Some of the duties of an Academic Advisor of Athletics are as follow develops academic...
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...K.Williams 1 I feel that college students shouldn’t be paid. A college student represents his or her institution and it is his responsibility to play with honesty and devotion. Many students find it the best way to earn money and leave the education behind. [pic] Sport is necessary but there should be schedules for playing sports and studying. In my opinion, a good player should be given scholarships and medals as an encouragement to be a wining athlete and a successful student. Let us also not forget, talks of collegiate pay for play, the reason college athletes are in school in the first place is they are here to acquire an education (hence the word student before athlete) which in turn will catapult them to lucrative careers down the road. “Sports as great as it is, is at least in college, a side show and should remain that way if for nothing else to protect the innocence and integrity of the game. For the athletes who are great and posses the potential to elevate their games to the next level, they will eventually be more than adequately compensated for their athleticism to the tune of millions in some cases. And before you under value the worth of a college education, look at it like this for some perspective. A college education, especially an American, one of the most desired attributes worldwide.” .”(Powell, A 2004) Every day Latinos climb on boats, along with anything else that will float, to try to navigate themselves on to Florida's...
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...their respective institutions, which has generally raised the question as to why they shouldn’t be compensated for their sporting prowess. Student-athletes generate tens of millions of dollars for their respective athletic departments and ideally then should be reimbursed. However, as per the guidelines of the National Collegiate Athletics Associations (NCAA), athletes are not supposed to receive any commercial use of their personas and likenesses and are indeed not expected to gain any monetary compensation for their sporting engagements. This has generally been interpreted to mean that they cannot enter into agreements for endorsements in their sporting activities as has been the case with professional engagements. Instead, students are expected to benefit from the payment for tuition fees from their sporting activities. 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. College athletes are supposed to be the best of the best on that level, so why do college athletes not get paid? The National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA, says that it...
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...Week Three Organizational Issues ETH/316 - Ethics and Social Responsibility January 22, 2013 Responsibility Project Video Link: http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/rp-roundtable-college-sports * Organizational Issues The world of collegiate sports is as comprehensive a subject as can be discussed. The issues that come with the overall organization of collegiate sports and the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) are far greater than what should be deemed acceptable. In an Internet video, Responsibility Project (2011) states that the “model” of collegiate sports is broken, that there is a debate on whether college sports builds character or retracts from character, and that we have reached a cross-roads with today’s college athletes. The issues discussed in the video are of great importance because they deal with the education and upbringing of thousands of our nation’s youth and because the “organization” of college sports is a multi-billion dollar industry which is accompanied by many flaws. These matters include the fact that college athletes receiving full scholarships are demanded to allow so much time and effort towards their athletic programs that it comes at the expense of them receiving an education. Another issue discussed in the film, this actually from a former athlete himself, says “the athlete is so far removed from the academic experience of the institution…they don’t interact with the normal student body, they...
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...especially since so many are not responsible with their money. Basically, I believe that the school should not be responsible for giving these student athletes money. In many cases, these athletes walk around campus with rock star status anyway. If they were paid it would further that perception that they were something other than simply a student athlete. If they were to be paid, many of the athletes would simply waste that money on their wants, and not save it for their necessities. The debate must take into account the benefits that colleges and the NCAA reap from these athletes, and in turn what risks and rewards these athletes endure for these athletic programs. Whether most people will admit it or not, the dynamics and integrity of collegiate sports are slowly changing into a commercial entertainment based organization, majorly focused on the incentive of revenue. If the athletes have issues with money, as many college students do, it is not the university’s responsibility. Even...
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...“Hayes,” the professor says as he or she calls the class role by last names. “Present,” I always yell from the front row in every class that I’m in. Hayes, that’s me; I am a basketball player and yes I’m the front row as a student-athlete on the dean’s list. On the basketball court I’m called by my last name, Hayes, if I score a basket or do something great on defense. Why are last names so relevant to things I excel in? Especially if it’s the only thing my father ever gave me, my last name. Although my father hasn’t been apart of my life enough to consider him a role model, I’ve used his absence to get me where I am today. This deficiency has influenced me to work hard in everything I do, to appreciate and be grateful for what I do have, and has helped me become a stronger person. All day and night until I was 12 years old, I used to sit and wonder why my father only came around every once in a blue moon. This led me to join sports as soon as I was old enough to play for my middle school’s basketball team, volleyball team, and run for the track team. I’ve gave every single sport my all. I’ve worked hard because I wanted my father to see me in the newspaper or on the television doing something he could be proud of. In high school, I’ve been the Most Valuable Player all four years of my Varsity career. I’ve made it in the newspaper and online news several times for my accomplishments, yet this still didn’t bring him around more. I became an extraordinary player at basketball...
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...` Introduction A. Opening Device – In 2015 the National Collegiate Athletic Association generated an estimated $1.5 billion from the annual March Madness basketball tournament according to Yahoo! Finance. While it is an extremely exuberant amount, the NCAA is the only institution in America in which it doesn’t pay the people that fuel its industry, the student-athletes. B. Thesis Statement – As the NCAA continues to reap immense profit, it is only right for these student-athletes to be compensated for the revenue they generate. C. Preview – First, I’ll inform you on the current principles and policies that the NCAA has in place, why those principles and policies are absurd, and I’ll discuss the fight for student-athletes to be recognized as employees. II. Body A. Current NCAA principles and policies 1. Amateurism- the bedrock principle of the NCAA. a. “Student-athletes shall be amateurs in an intercollegiate sport, and their participation should be motivated primarily by education and by the physical, mental, and social benefits to be derived.” (NCAA) 2. Student-Athlete a. “In the collegiate model of sports, the young men and women competing on the field or court are students first, athletes second.” (NCAA) b. “We provide them remarkable opportunities to get an education at the finest universities.” (Emmert) c. In the long ongoing controversy of whether or not the NCAA should pay students-athletes, the NCAA has staunchly defended its stance, stating students...
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...Paying College Athletes One of the biggest issues in college athletics that has been put to question for a number of years is whether or not college athletes should be paid for the amount of money they bring in for their schools. Well-known columnist Joe Nocera of The New York Times insist that it is time for change in the college world and that players should be paid. In his article “Let’s Start Paying College Athletes” he begins by introducing an antagonistic claim to what he believes, and then explains why he supports athletes being paid sustaining his statements with a solution to go about doing it. He begins his article by deliberately trying to distort the credibility of Mark Emmert, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to gain the reader’s favor. In Nocera’s view, he calls Emmert “the almighty overseer of American college sports,” who “likes to think of himself as a reformer.” In making this comment, Nocera criticizes Emmert, who has only held the position for a year, for the series of improvements he has implemented only a few months back. He goes into further detail about one of the improvements made by Emmert to give a $2000 stipend to division I athletes to help with college expenses, and then attacks him in person claiming that it is a form of payment to the players. Again, he tries to ruin the face of Emmert but this time through the form of hypocrisy. It is quite obvious that he detests Emmert and the rest of the NCAA who agree...
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...Employment Research With the major Physical Education/Sports Communication, I can go in many different field of physical activity, leisure and sports management. There are possibilities that I can go as far as working with professional sports to recreational sports. The three main fields I like to take on is Publicist, Media Relations and Listing Coordinator as well as Senior Corporate Communications Manager. Two of them are from the same agency ESPN. Working with ESPN is unlike anything else I can imagine. ESPN, Inc, is multinational, multimedia sports entertainment featuring the broadcast portfolio of multimedia sports assets with over 50 business entities. The headquarters are in Bristol, Connecticut. The two jobs that are offered in Connecticut are Media Relations and Listing Coordinator and Publicist. As a publicist I will support Senior Director and three staff in all activities related to ESPN’s high school and college sports area including college football, bowl games, college basketball, NCAA Championships, Longhorn Network, SEC Network, ESPNU, ESPN Events, ratings and all relevant studio programming. I will also handle daily duties for ESPNU, ESPN High School and recruiting, select NCAA Champions and regular-season college sports programming, and all ESPN college sports communication tools including press kits, bios, weekly newsletter and images. The other job offer is Media Relation and Listing Coordinator. With this job comes a lot of responsibilities. Some...
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...In Nigeria, there are so many factors influencing the ability of students to cultivate effective and efficient study habit. (Ozmer 2005) emphasized the importance of environmental influence as a major factor in the development of students studying habit and academic performance. .NCAA Division I athletic programs are usually the largest and best funded. Many of the student-athletes receive full or partial scholarships. NCAA Division I programs also have high regional, and often high national, visibility. Athletes in these programs face a great deal of public scrutiny. These are usually high-power programs and some of the issues of student-athletes may bring to the sport psychologist includes worries over maintaining scholarships, pressures from coaches, and exposure in the media. NCAA Division I schools are often “pressure cookers” for athletes, especially in the revenue sports of football, basketball and baseball. Many schools also specialize in one or two nonrevenue sports and pressures on athletes in those sports can be substantial. Working with College Student-Athletes for many students-athletes, starting college brings about substantial psychological change and adjustment (Gould & Finch, 1991). The demands placed on students-athletes (e. g., academic pressures, sport performance, training, travel) usually exceed the demands experienced by non-athlete students. Students-athletes face a variety of developmental issues and have a number of special pressures, including...
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...Should College Athletes Be Paid? Raymond Allaire English 102 Fall A Group 10 September 7, 2014 Should College Athletes Get Paid? Many football fans are aware of the former college football star Johnny Manziel, now an NFL quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, or they know him by his moniker Johnny Football, the first ever Freshman Heisman Trophy winner. Following his Heisman Trophy and becoming one of the most renowned college athletes of all time, the seemingly untouchable Johnny Manziel was believed to have signed and then sold his autographs for money. Texas A&M raked in 740 million dollars last year and some believe a huge chunk of that came from Johnny Manziel being the exciting attraction and draw that he is. So doesn’t he deserve a little compensation for doing what he does when the pros get paid for similar exposure? For the past few years universities have been banned from bowl games, had wins taken away, and scholarships stripped as the result of a handful of players accepting "gifts" from the aptly named boosters. Should college athletes be paid as a reward for risking possible injury and potentially ending their athletic pursuits as a result, all in the name of university revenues? College athletes deserve to share in university revenues because the university benefits from them, they should be able to pursue endorsement deals if offered, and because they are risking personal injury should be afforded some degree of insurance or reward. Adrian Peterson...
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...I got off the bus bored out of my mind, but I need the extra-curricular activities to apply for a scholarship to the university. I don’t have a real interest in geology but a trip to the Blanchard Springs Caverns was better than playing sports, or one of the bigger clubs and being subjected to carwashes and other such fund raising activities, not to mention having to deal with the other people in the clubs. The truth is that the geology club had very few people and very few requirements, other than going on at least one event, so it was ideal for my idea of participation. There were only a few weeks left before graduation, so this was my last chance to fulfill the club requirements, plus it was closer to our school's location than some of the other proposed trip sites so less time on a stinky bus, so overall win, win situation. There were just four of us on this trip, so really the bus seemed like overkill, but school rules would not allow the use of personal vehicles, not that I had one, but someone else’s would have been great. The teacher over us Mr. Jackson, calls us over to the sign by the entrance to the building and starts giving us the lecture about the caves and what we can expect. Overall he tells us that it will take about an hour to two hours to go through the cave then we can explore on our own for another hour and a half before we have to leave. The other two students there with me Amy Wong and Jimmy Cross start asking questions about geological formations and sediments...
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...State Lottery Billions of dollars are gained from lottery ticket sales each year (Thompson). Also half the money gained is used for state funding. Money schools need, but cannot receive, they can get from money gained in lottery ticket sales. Some states also have a program where cash gain from lottery ticket sales will help send kids to college. Over 850,000 students have been sent to college through this program and about $3 billion has been spent since the program began in the 1990s. The lottery supports schools and state programs. The program is good because it also helps kids pay for college because not everyone can pay for college. It's also good half the money spent on the lottery goes to helping the community. The lottery is worth it because you can win money, but if you do not you are still giving money to the state which helps with schools. Although you are playing the lottery, there is a big chance you will not win. “The odds of winning the lottery are 1 in 175 million” (Worth). Also the money is not always used for schools. “Some of the money is spent on other city projects” (Worth). “People have a problem with grasping that the odds of winning are 1 in 175 million” (Wasserstein). The problem is that you can see 1 in 175 million distinct objects. “It is easier to grasp 1 in 50” because you can imagine yourself in a room with 50 people (Wasserstein). Lottery tickets cost $1 which is not a lot for some, but it can add up (Wolf-Mann). Lottery tickets are not much, especially...
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