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These same individuals work 40 hours in their game each week; these "individuals" are college competitors. The NCAA, the governing body for significant college games, is the business doing this to college competitors. This is an issue of abuse and control by expansive institutions over basically destitute individuals, the NCAA is controlling them in bearings to profit for everybody while doing everything conceivable to keep the players out of the money. College Athletes merit benefit since they get huge income into their system, the NCAA, and they put huge amounts of time into their game. The competitors at these institutions acquire huge amounts of money into their school each year and merit pay. These Universities are misusing these competitors by not giving them back what they make for their school. The numbers say it all with regards to the misleading of the competitors by their own schools. In 2004, more than 40 schools acquired more than $10 million, with 10 of them getting over $30 million. A few competitors around the country are worth more than $1 million to their

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Abstract:  Collegiate athletes participating in the two revenue sports (football, men's basketball) sacrifice their time, education, and risk physical harm for their respected programs. The players are controlled by a governing body (NCAA) that dictates when they can show up to work, and when they cannot show up for work. They are restricted from making any substantial financial gains outside of their sports arena. These athletes receive no compensation for their efforts, while others prosper from their abilities. The athletes participating in the two revenue sports of college athletics, football and men's basketball should be compensated for their time, dedication, and work put forth in their respected sports.

Ever since the National Collegiate Athletic Association was formed in 1905, their role in regulating intercollegiate athletics has involved many different tasks. These tasks include making athletics safe in order to prevent injury, marketing athletic events, regulating and changing rules in order to make college sports more fun for the fans, and enforcing the key principle of college sports: amateurism. Amateurism in college athletics means that athletes are unpaid. As a result, the NCAA has had to deal with deciding how to handle issuing and assigning monetary value of scholarships and grants. However, the NCAA has not had to manage the debate over college athletes getting paid to play. In a day

The normal Division I college football player takes 43.3 hours out of his week for his sport (Craig). That’s 3.3 more hours in the typical American work week. The NCAA claims college athletes are just students. But if players are just students why is the college athlete missing

As a college student, one must attend classes, complete work specific to their degree requirements and maintain a minimum grade point average as sanctioned by the NCAA to participate in athletics. The NCAA is an “organization dedicated to safeguarding the well-being of student-athletes and equipping them with the skills to succeed on the playing field, in the classroom and throughout life”. The NCAA has put in place a set of rules to assure fair and safe competition at the collegiate level. Arguably one the most debatable topics is the NCAA rule that states “College athletes are not to be paid, not to cash in on their prominence, never to cross any kind of line of professionalism.”

While football players at the University of Illinois are working at their sport or performing their sport nearly 32 hours a week, which is all right after coming from a full class schedule. The NCAA wants to treat student athletes like regular students, when these athletes are the farthest thing from being regular students. These athletes are expected just like the rest of the student body to perform at their highest capability in the classroom, but as well at their peak athletic ability in practice or in a game right after they have spent the day draining themselves into their school

Salaries for 8-5 individuals are based on approximately 40 hours a week. A division one NCAA college football player dedicates more than 40 hours a week to their sport. Therefore, they are bound to receive direct financial compensations just like a full-time working American (Karaim, p 20). It is important to note that the NCAA maintains that college athletes should attend classes and participate in sports. Therefore, their 40 hours of practice acquires an additional 11 hours of classes on a weekly basis (Karaim, p 21). I go to Passaic County Community college as a full-time student and work 40 hours a week just to live life. These college athletes are doing the same thing I am doing. The college athlete needs to maneuver their schedule smoothly to ensure they do not fail to attend classes and sports' practice. College athletes skip classes to travel and go to tournaments. Spectators purchase tickets to watch games which are made up of the college athletes. It is not only decent but sensible to pay the people who are the life of the

The multibillion-dollar industry that college sports has become has richly rewarded the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), university athletic programs and top football and basketball coaches. Athletes, however, continue to play under a decades-old system in which scholarships pay for tuition and room and board but fall short of covering the full cost of attending school. In return, players are expected to maintain a rigorous training and playing schedule while keeping up their studies. This falls very short to being fair for the student athletes, who are the ones putting their sweat, hearts, bodies and health on the line, day in and day out.

The NCAA proclaimed this rule because they felt that athletes who are working for alumni that have a tight relationship with the school will be treated more with better care and receive special benefits and stipends. These rewards that can be received include the following; college athletes who are still paid when not at work or athletes that are receiving a higher raise than their fellow co-workers.(Anstine 4) Also, another predicament dealing with college athletes working is the time confliction. College athletes now-a-days have very busy schedules that they have to follow and once they are finished with their schedules for today, athletes do not have that much time on their hands. College athletes these years are now required by the NCAA to have at least four classes, which is a minimum of twelve credit hours, at the start of the semester and are required to only pass three classes or nine credit hours by December which is the also the end of the semester. With this having to be achieved, most athletes spend countless hours studying, doing homework and attending class every day. Besides the fact that student athletes study and attend class all day, they also have practice too. Attending practice and

The actions of the NCAA and their treatment of student-athletes has long been a major issue. The world of college sports is a multi-billion dollar enterprise built on the backs of its unpaid amateur “student- athletes”. The evolution of sponsorship and media rights deals are worth fortunes, for which the players receive nothing, except for their degree.

Imagine that you are a full-time college athlete; your daily routine would entail an early wake up and a practice. After your morning practice, you have to go your classes for the day. Then, since you are crunched for time and do not have much time in the class room while on the road, you have a tutoring session. Lastly, you have another practice and a weight lifting session that could end at 10 o’clock or later at times. Players also have to work hard on their own time to keep their spot in the lineup. Athletes follow this schedule the whole year. With all of an athletes’ time being put toward their sports and studies, they do not have time to hold even a

To begin, the NCAA spends their time creating rules but fails to enforce them. One such rule includes the twenty-hour rule that is continuously violated by coaches. Ray Joseph of Marist College

Student athletes are unable to obtain steady income because they are so busy with sporting activities and community service activities and are unable to get a job to support themselves. College athletes cannot pick up a side job that earns over $2,000 per year or accept money from their coach to buy food from any local grocery store. These are issues that make supporters question whether the NCAA is treating college athletes like employees or if they really are student athletes. In a survey organized by the Big 12 Conference, players stated that they feel that juggling athletics and course work during the season is expectedly difficult, but athletes often feel just as overworked in the off-season and the off-season can be more draining than the in-season itself. In a 2010 NCAA survey, more than three-quarters of Division I baseball players reported spending “as much or more time on athletic activities” during the off-season as during the competitive season. About 70 percent of men’s basketball players reported the same, as did 70 percent of football players. It was a similar picture for the remaining men’s sports.(New). Student athletes may not be able to get a job but are still treated like employees.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a very powerful organization in the United States. The NCAA at the end of 2007 approximately earned $627M a near one billion dollars. The NCAA oversees nearly every aspect of the $11 billion college sports industry. The NCAA tries to help and make college athletics fair but they simply have too much power.