Since football earnings fund other sports, this disparity affects athletes in all sports” (procon.org). Regarding the issue on consumers that are not harmed, in numerous ways, the BCS scheme harms millions and millions of consumers, most of whom despise the BCS. In fact, A 2007 Gallup poll showed that 85% of college football fans supported a change to a playoff system of some kind. sixty-nine percent of fans surveyed preferred the idea of a playoff tournament involving the top
NCAA Football and NFL Football In the NFL, almost every franchise has had a taste of a Super Bowl victory. College Football teams also experience a National Championship. The way champions, games, scoring, schedules, and players who are paid to play and those who are not, certainly make a difference. NCAA football is student-athletes that play football at the collegiate level. Players might play for fun, competitively, or even going for a shot to play in the NFL.
As the students buy tickets and merchandise and continue to cheer for their team, there is a constant income of money, and with this comes the need for jobs. Many jobs such as coaches, trainers, athletic administrators, media relations, merchandise sales, restaurants, hotels, stadium employees, and referees, all come from and benefit from the game of college football. Along with the income of the games, there are some donors that only put money towards athletics. Overall, for the sake of the university, college football should not be banned. If something as simple as a sports team can have such a significant impact on an entire university, how can the bad ever out weigh the
Is the BCS fair? Again Bill Hancock argues heavily that it cannot get fairer than the BCS. Central to his argument in defense of the BCS is Hancock’s interview with Gary Patterson, the head football coach of Texas Christian University (TCU). TCU is a smaller school than most would expect to be against the BCS, but Hancock highlights Patterson’s support for the system. Hancock quotes an ESPN interview with Patterson saying, “We had a vision nine years ago of reaching a BCS bowl and going to a national championship.
A scholarship can be a major financial package, and plenty of your average college students would be more than happy to take the tuition and actually pursue their studies” (Pheifer, 2012). That may be true, but these athletes don’t stay at college long enough to earn a scholarship. In basketball most players (at least the good ones) stick it out for merely a year, while most football players (again, the good ones) leave after four years. You call this compensation? I think not.
“College Football Players Deserve Pay for Play” by Rod Gilmore, “Why Student-Athletes Should Not Be Paid” by Kabir Sawhney, and “The Shame of College Sports” by Taylor Branch all voice their opinions on this argument. I believe college athletes should have their full tuition, meals, room and board paid for; but I do not think the school should necessarily be responsible for paying the athletes 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.
Football is its own sport in many was one being its unique championship. “Football remains the only NCAA sport whose championship isn't decided through a playoff system”(Herald, p.1) that is very unique to the sport and some want to keep it because they like to be different. Some believe that the more different they are the better it is. One of the main groups that were against playoffs were the “lords” or owners, of different teams that they are “ defending the 'fairness' of deeply flawed for determining a division 1-A National Champion”(Herald, p.1). They don't care if others say that the way is flawed they still believe that it is fair in some
The Case to Pay Student Athletes The world of college athletics has developed into a multi-billion dollar industry and everyone has their hands in the deep pockets of the universities and television companies. Everyone except for the student-athletes themselves that is. The star coaches in big college athletic programs often earn huge sums and gain national fame. Despite the argument that college athletes should not receive compensation because of their amateur status, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) should consider payment, or a revised system of reward, because the athletes risk career ending and sometimes life threating injuries, the universities that the athletes represent receive huge sums of revenue from athletic events, and it will help curb the current “pay for play” scandals affecting many
Players are not allowed to accept gifts, clothing, tickets of entertainment, merchandise, special discounts, etc. Anything of that nature will cause a player to be penalized or jeopardize their scholarship. Fans must understand that a college sports is a big business. Once again, the NCAA makes almost 6 billion dollars annually. This money goes into the pockets of coaches, executives, athletic directs, funds the school, and some scholarships.
$4.57. Just to park at one of these games can run up the price of a day spent watching football. The price to park at a Cowboys’ game runs up to $75 (Yahoo Sports). This isn’t to mention beer, merchandise, and other types of food that can cost far more than $4.84. All these things would cost a family of four an average of $443.93 dollars for a day at the game (Yahoo