The first thing that these student athletes should be worrying about is there academics and with all the extra money they would get for playing would break their concentration and create more nationally know problems in the college sports world. Most of these players have the big goal of playing professional sport. This is still a pipe dream to those who aren’t stars, with a few exceptions. So therefore these student athletes should focus on their academics before they worry about getting paid to play. They don’t need the pay because they are there on scholarship or other types of pay that is keeping them in the school.
Of course many athletes receive scholarships, but young financially underprivileged students can't always balance school, athletics, and a job. Because of this, college athletes should be paid for playing for their college to firstly, help them financially accommodate their expensive lifestyles, give them the money they played hard to earn, carry on their academics and finally to allow for stress free recuperation
Making money during college should be the last thing on their mind. They should be focused on getting their education and pushing themselves to get better so they can play at the next level in the NFL. College football has to draw the line where it’s a privilege for a player to play at the school. Colleges also shouldn’t pay college football players because they already pay for everything such as tuition and housing. Some college football players have free rides; a free ride means that all four years of their education and housing are paid for.
But should companies like Nike have to give student athletes a piece of their jersey sales? Absolutely. The NCAA throws the word amateurism around far too often. There is a fine line between remaining an amateur and becoming a professional in the eyes of the NCAA. Turning pro does not guarantee endorsements and royalties; it simply means that an athlete will be paid to play for his organization.
To Pay or Not to Pay To exploit means to make full use of and/or derive benefit from something or someone. In the case of student athletes, exploitation has become a major argument. In discussions of athletes and money, a controversial issue is whether or not student athletes should be paid. Many argue that being a college athlete is like having a full-time job, with players either at practice majority of the day, or in class the rest. In this case, they question why not give them some sort of payment to help aide the harsh student expenses they are forced to pay?
Colleges give excessive control over a sports to coaches and the coaches have the ability to indirectly give benefits to their players. This is also a continuation of the Pryor saga. The bigger controversy of the story was that his coach, Jim Tressel, knew that Pryor and a couple of other players had illegally merchandised his belongings and received awards from a tattoo parlor (Schlabach), but coach Tressel did not report this to the NCAA. This event happened before their Sugar Bowl game in 2010, in which they probably could not have won without Pryor (Schlabach). Despite Tressel’s inaction, Ohio State only suspended their prized coach for 2 games of the 2011 football season and fined him a measly $250,000 of his $3.5 million annual salary (Schlabach).
Jim Marchbank MNGT 5000 9 December 2013 Term Paper INTRO: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is at a defining moment in their existence. There has never been more momentum or need for the idea that student athletes should be properly compensated. There are many sides to this argument but it seems they are growing closer after years of both sides stubbornly digging in their heels and adamantly saying “no” while barely entertaining thoughts of the opposing side. There is too much money being made because of student athletes for universities to not take a closer look at the idea of compensating student athletes more fairly THESIS: Student athletes are undercompensated for the amount of money that they help universities
Petrie says, “The athletic department might actually be more concerned with athletes’ eligibility than with their academic work” (3). In this essay Petrie states, “Colleges give student athletes preferential treatment” (4). On the other hand, a nonathletic student would have to be very sick to even be considered for this kind of
Speech Outline Purpose Statement: The purpose of this speech is to show the audience why college athletes should be paid. Thesis Statement: College athletes deserve to be paid for a variety of reasons including: Introduction: As an athlete it is obvious that the harder you work the more success you have and every athlete’s dream is to play professionally. I feel that one of the major problems of being a college athlete is that you cannot get paid for playing. The NCAA makes millions of dollars a year off of student athletes. Body: 1.
Reformation of NCAA Policies Living the life of a highly recruited high school athlete is completely different than the life lived by the average teenager. It entails dealing with the connections of multiple university coaches, constantly perfecting the craft of their perspective sport, and finally making that decision to one of the intriguing offers from the multitude of offers received from various colleges. The whole reasoning behind these college coaches to giving out these offers to the high school students is to keep the money rolling in from collegiate sports. Despite all of the revenue that comes from collegiate sports, none of that is ever returned back to the young people who make all of this money. Currently the NCAA policy states