Whether college athletes should be paid or not is a very controversial topic in the sports world. Many professional football or basketball players in the NCAA and the NBA get paid millions of dollars each year (Text 1, lines 10-16). However, college athletes don’t deserve to be paid as if they were in the NCAA or the NBA. People in the sports community hasn't taken into consideration all the benefits that student-athletes receive with an athletic scholarship. Due to universities providing scholarships
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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
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College athletes should be paid to play for numerous of reasons. College athletes are the long time controversy. For instance, they receive collect scholarships and are permitted to go to college for free, but they cannot get a job. The reason they can’t get jobs because most of the athletes work at practices and games. If they had extra time, they still couldn’t Without getting paid, how would they pay for all the necessary expenses? It’s against the law to pay the college athletes, even for their
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College athletes should not be paid. Why should college athletes be paid, when it’s their choice to play the sport or not? College athletic programs can’t afford to pay athletes. There is a lot of money being put into athletic programs, but there is also the same amount going out and a lot of the programs are working at a loss. Most college athletes get sports scholarships, which should be payment enough. The athletes mostly always get their full tuition paid for, or at least discounted. Millions
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210-003 Persuasive Speech 4/4/12 Topic: Should college athletes be paid to play sports? Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience why collegiate athletes should not be paid to play. Introduction Opening Comment: Image that you just scored the game-winning basket in the NCAA basketball tournament championship. Your shot just helped the school get tens of millions of dollars. Now by a show of hands, how many of you think that you should earn a share of that money? Central Idea: One
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I think college athletes should be paid. One reason I think this is because they basically put they're life on the line to make other people money. Granted, some athletes are better than other but all of them should get some money from their sales they bring in. Such as if their jersey gets sold out servel months in a row or something. It just makes sense. Other reason for them being paid is that they live off nothing. Most of them are to busy playing football and keeping good grades they can't get
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Persuasive Outline Topic: Should College Athletes be Paid?” Position Statement: Yes, but with terms. [pic] Introduction: Attention Getter: • Do you know how much the University of Missouri-Columbia made in revenue from its football program last year? o Answer: 15.3 million • Do you know how much the University of Missouri-Columbia spent on each football player on its team last year? o $25, 261 * 60 players = $1,515,660 • A difference of about 14
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Should College Athletes Be Paid? Should College Athletes Be Paid? College athletes should be paid to play for many reasons. First of all, college athletes aren’t allowed to work. How are they going to pay for all the necessary expenses if they come from poor families? This also leads to players accepting illegal money, cars, clothes, etc. College athletes bring in millions of dollars through merchandise and games. Most of the athletes that have the opportunity to leave school and turn professional
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media exposure of sports, college athletics have gained massive popularity amongst the general public of the United States. This in turn has led to an increased revenue and exposer for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the sport’s college. For instance, the NCAA made $912.8 million during 2012-2013, and a study by ESPN has shown that the University of Alabama athletic department made $123,769,841. With a great deal of money circulating through college athletics, a major controversy
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