...Should College Athletes be Paid? Why should college athletes be paid or not? In this article it says, “Big time college football and basketball programs generate billions a year in TV and marketing contracts, tickets sales, and merchandising.” Why I choose this topic is because If the college players don't bring any money for the TV , tickets, and merchandising then that is wrong. They should, at least, have 10% of what they sell that has the player's last name on it .I am on the pro side why I am is because If a person buys an item that has something to do with them, then they should be paid a little amount of what the regular price is of the item. I am going to tell you a few Pros about college players getting paid. First of all, in the text it says, “ Big time college football and basketball programs generate billions a year.” My question is how does the franchise make billions a year. They make billions a year from the players who, when the games and consistently bowl games and don't even bring a little bit poor because people consider they are amateurs and they will do something poor with the money like use it on things that...
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...Running head: PROS AND CONS Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes Mark Dunkley PEP 461 Student The College at Brockport Abstract This paper weighs in the pros and cons for the compensation of Division I college student athletes. This paper also introduces a plan that would allow monetary compensation of college athletes in the United States. A survey was distributed to 14 males of the Suny College at Brockport basketball team Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes The exploits of student-athletes in sports have variously been advanced as generating a lot of dollars in forms of revenues for 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...
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...New Sport Facilities Management Outdoor Campus Recreation Field Facility We will be conducting an outdoor campus recreation facility. The facility will include 2 soft-ball fields as well as 2 multi-purposed fields. These will provide different areas to focus on such as budget of the whole construction and facility usage, where the location in University of Akron we will put the facility in, what the facility will offer, who will be managing the program of the facility, and who will be the architecture to construct the facility. We will also demonstrate the pros and cons of each of the focus areas. The budget for the softball fields as well as the multi-purpose fields are as follows. For general construction costs, $500,000 will be allocated to finish the projects construction. Some specific costs will be the purchasing of the soccer and lacrosse goals that can be added and removed from the field which will be $2,000. Another specific cost will be the fencing around the softball fields which will be around $1,000. Costs for keeping up the inventory of the concession stands will be around $12,000 per year. The costs to keep the inventory stocked for the sports-wear store inside the softball fields will be around $50,000, selling things such as T-Shirts and Hoodies, along with many other types of sports apparel. The cost of utilities will be around $180,000 per year. Some specific utility costs are electric which will be about 150,000 per year and water, which will be around...
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...As the star college football player runs on to the field for the biggest game of the year, he sees everyone wearing shirts, poster, signs, and tickets with his face on it, and yet he doesn’t make a dime of the profit. College student athletes already receive much of a free education through paid scholarships (Mendelson) and at the same time the universities make millions off these athletes, but the athletes don’t receive any of it.The issue deserves attention and is important because people can’t agree on whether it is right or wrong to pay college student athletes. Even though paying college student athletes has a few pros, most students already receive a free education, athlete payment would not be equal, and the main focus of college is to receive an education. Most student athletes receive a free education already. If they are a good enough student athletes, they receive large sums of money in scholarships to top tier schools to get an education (Mendelson). Receiving a free education is essentially already a form a payment and getting into a top school gives them an opportunity they otherwise might not have without sports. Studies have shown that some universities will spend up to 90,000 dollars on some student athletes a year (Mendelson), thus making it apparent much of their education is free....
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...The NCAA(National Collegiate Athletic Association) is not paying college athletes, which will become a problem sooner or later if the NCAA does not pay college athletes. Many people think that paying college athletes will bring some problems to universities/colleges, such as offering players more money.However it would be unfair for less appealing and wealthy schools because they do not have as much power or money to recruit the best players. Though people do not understand that college football is for stronger players compared to weaker ones. If the players are dedicated to playing for their future, then paying college athletes would prepare them for the NFL(National Football League) and the players who don’t make it still help their team get better. Although most players in college do not make it to the NFL, every player on their teams help win and helps other players get better so everyone should receive a piece of the action....
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...Over the past couple of years there have been many arguments over whether college football players should be paid or not. Football athletes puts in lot of hours in practicing day after day, week after week, for their colleges or with television contracts and football deals alone, the athletes are really bringing in the money for the colleges and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). I guess you could argue that a football scholarship isn’t enough to compensate, but are they? But, I say they should be paid. I believe they should get a salary paid for a several reasons. But there are many pros and cons to this debate, views that are shared by many. Football players plays the game simply because he loves it. Some football plays...
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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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...On October 31, 2013, Chad Stover died while playing football after receiving a concussion. Stover’s head made contact with another player’s thigh in the midst of a tackle, resulting in a concussion. Concussions are one of many injuries that are possible when playing football. Aside from all of the injuries, there are many helpful characteristics of the sport (football). Football aids in the development of children and young adults. From work ethic to relieving of stress football has many beneficial facets. Football is one of the many sports that provides Psychological increase in youth. The pros outweigh the cons, the cons are injuries while the pros are community building and a better psychological outlook. During a football game in October, Leshawn Williams received an injury to his knee thinking it was a type of ligament damage. Later over the...
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...Decision Making Robert T. Crawford III MGT/230 August 13, 2013 Jonathan Wildish Decision Making In the late summer of 1989, contrary to public speculations, I choose a small college in Missouri to play football. With an impressive track record and athletic abilities, the goal was to single handedly revive a dead football program making me a no brainer selection for the pro leagues. Needless to say, this choice was met with overwhelmingly amounts of negativity from family members that support Auburn or Alabama; the local press was all over the place and school coaching staff with connections to Oklahoma and Texas universities. Conflict Upon arrival and to my dismay, the first introduction to collegiate football politics was an eye opener. For the first time in my life, the better player did not win the position. The coaches determined that it was best to red-shirt the first academic year making it possible to recreate a new offensive strategic game plan. The term redshirt: “A college football player who skips a year of play without losing a year of eligibility. A player will often redshirt because of an injury or academic problem” (Alder, 2013). Truthfully, I did not qualify for academic or injury and desired to play as a true freshman. This decision caused discord between the coaching staff and myself. During the season I did not play one game and reluctantly attended practices. A personalized invitation to meet at an expensive local restaurant, expenses paid, was...
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...Should College Athletes Get Paid? College athletes should be paid for playing at the college level. This topic is interesting to me because it has been a debatable topic for a long time. College athletes deserve to get a pay check because they are still responsible to keep their grades up while playing and training for football. They work harder than the pros because they have more of a motivation to get to the higher profession than someone who is already there. They can use that money to help support their families. The coaches are getting paid but they don’t play a sport or endure in a sport. The NCAA is making a profit out of them. In all honesty, the college athletes are one of the most hardest working athletes that don’t get paid. College...
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...First Baptist through MUSC, she must abide by certain guidelines. For example, she covers every sports home game. For football and baseball, she travels with them for away games as well. It’s just the way her contract...
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...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 from college sports — more than the estimated total league revenues of both the National...
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...English 1301 07/09/10 The debate of whether college athletes receive special treatment has been an ongoing issue for decades now. College is a very difficult task to complete, especially when trying to balance both sports and academics. With that being said, education should be their main priority. College athletes should have all of the same responsibilities as non-athletes as far as academics are concerned. So should college athletes be exempt from normal class? The athletics department is considered to be one of the most revenue making departments in many colleges. Therefore student athletes are many times allowed special treatment with regard to minimum school requirements. While I do understand that athletics are a very important part of the college experience, it should not be the main priority. The priority of a college is to provide students the opportunity to earn not just a degree but a skill that will help them to succeed in the real world. The cost of living is very high and just keeps getting higher, for a person to be competitive in todays job market it is almost necessary to have a college degree. The number of athletes that actually turn professional are few. Most athletes don’t go pro after college so they should make academics their number one priority in order to get the full educational experience. Those that do make it to pro are at high risk career ending injuries on a daily basis. That is why it is really important that student athletes be encouraged...
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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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...educational success, self-confidence, and a strong work ethic. The role of being an athlete is a good goal to reach in itself especially with the obesity epidemic that we are currently having in America. Athletes must have a strong work ethic and devote a large portion of their personal time to training in order to become a professional. Athletes also need to display a high degree of self confidence in order to be successful. With the exception of a very small few most athletes do go to college, and are expected to be successful, which promotes children to seek further education (Williams, 2011 ). A current example of an athlete who makes a good role model is Olympic gold medalist gymnast Gabby Douglas. She not only was a participant in the 2012 Olympics but she has shown a high degree of class and respect as she has gained fame. Unfortunately, there are many examples of bad role models within the athletic community. A recent case that is in the news concerns professional football player...
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