Atheltes Paid Too Much

Salary caps are a very important tool used in professional sports. All 4 major professional sports leagues in the United States have a salary cap installed into their collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players. Those four major sports are, the NFL, the NBA, the MLB and the NHL. A salary cap is defined as s an agreement or rule that places a limit on the amount of money that a team can spend on players' salaries. It can be as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's roster. It is basically put in place to help the small market teams stay competitive. It is meant so the wealthy teams, also called big market teams, does not always stay dominant by signing the best players to very big contracts. Salary caps are

It is unbelievable how much sports players get payed to run around for about 3 hours throwing balls and exercising. To start the players that get paid the most are NBA (National Basketball Association) get $5.15 million per year. Next the players that get paid the most are in the MLB. Each year they get an average of $3.2 million. After MLB, NHL players get paid the third most. They average 2.4 million per year. Last but not least the NFL players get paid the 4th most in the whole world. The minimum salary

Money is limited. One can only buy what one has enough for. People must be efficient with their money. One must fill all of their needs. Similar to this situation, owners of professional sports teams can only buy players they have enough money for. Salary caps are placed on players based on skill level and value. This could be based off of various influences such as location, fan base, concessions sold, and much more. When some teams get more money than others, those teams get stacked with great players that lead the teams to victory. However, some complain that they don’t have a lot of money, and state that that is the reason they don’t have a good team. Therefore, the issue of salary caps, has two sides. Although salary caps could be abused

this because the fact of athletes being paid results in major pay cuts for them.

These student athletes should not be paid by their schools for being on their team because these universities are already losing money. Now imagine if they had to pay kids to play at their school. The Athletes should be able to receive sponsorships. It would not affect the colleges at all, just give the the kids a little extra money. For one reason , only 2% of them acquire full scholarships, and the second reason being that these athletes are practicing every week all year long. Even in the offseason. They don't have time for a job. So if some was to buy a jersey with their name on it and for them to not receive any money for it, is crazy. Most of theses kids are black men coming from poor families. For the NCAA to not give them even a percentage of the money they receive for sales. Also if they are good/popular enough for a brand like nike or adidas wanted to give them money, then they should be able to accept the offer. It was their hard work that got them noticed. They should be compensated for it. Why should these Athletes not be able to accept payment for their hard

Luckily their revenues do not correspond. Spending millions more to pay players would only make a more difficult financial situation for schools that are already subsidizing athletics. If they expand athletic costs by millions of dollars, that means they’ll be draining the academic budgets even more than they already are. Although Huma, the NCPA and CAPA president says, “The idea that there 's not enough revenue out there is ridiculous. The major conferences recently signed television deals worth an additional $1.2 billion over their previous deals,” he says. He also notes that “schools already share athletic revenue in a variety of ways. If the NCAA is seriously worried about the schools that aren 't making money, the association could institute a revenue-sharing program that would distribute the money more equitably.” (Huma, 2014). Even though student athletes work incredibly hard to not only stay good but also thrive in their collegiate endeavors, that doesn’t mean the university they attend should pay them for it. That’s their choice to play, college is a place for obtaining an education. Not trying to get paid for playing a sport like a professional. The question of whether or not student athletes should get paid arises primarily in reference to student athletes who play football and basketball at NCAA Division I institutions with high profile and high income athletic programs. The argument is that because some institutions receive millions of dollars from the

Why are salary caps good? Salary caps are an agreement that puts a limit on how much you can spend on one Athlete and how much they can earn. It’s not about the game it’s about how many people they can get in the stage for that certain Athlete or Team. The more people that go to the game the more money there will be involved. There a limit to how much an athlete pay gets

To the people that believe this, I must remind them of Major League Baseball and the situation that they faced just a few years back. First, players' salaries skyrocketed to obscene levels, alienating their average fan. Next, the players couldn't decide how to divide up their millions. Finally, they quit playing the game and their fans quit caring about Major League Baseball. Does any of this sound familiar? This is exactly what's happening in the NBA right now. If it happened to the American Pastime it can, and certainly will, happen to the NBA. Yet people, in spite of the lower ticket prices provided by a hard salary cap, aren't convinced that a hard salary cap is a good idea. They feel that players

Wouldn't it be great to make $100 million a year simply to play a game? JJ Watt, along with other professional athletes think so. But do these athletes really deserve all that money? In my opinion I think there paychecks are a little too much .

The debate on if Major League Baseball should implement a salary cap is becoming a popular argument throughout the professional world of sports. I personally think that there should not be a salary cap for baseball. A salary cap is an agreement within a sports league that puts a controlled limit on the salary of each player. If the MLB had a salary cap, there would be no way for teams to be able to compete against each other. Throughout time, baseball has been viewed by society as America’s pastime. This is one of the strongest supporting claims on why Major league baseball should not implement a salary cap. There have been eight incidents when the MLB tried to enforce the salary cap causing multiple organizations to go on strike so the salary

There are many professional athletes who are overpaid a tremendous amount of money. For example, in 2013 the New York Yankees third basemen Alex Rodriguez’s salary was $29,000,000. Another athlete that was overpaid was the Philadelphia Phillies first basemen Ryan Howard. During the 2011 postseason, he tore his Achilles tendon and had to miss most of 2012 season because he was on the disabled list. He had a salary of $20,000,000 for 2012 and only played 71 games out of 162. Major League Baseball should impose a salary cap on athletes because athletes are being overpaid, they are signing big contracts, and some are not performing well.

If the issue of student athletes being paid was dropped from the world what would be the outcome? Since the Supreme Court nor a lower jurisdiction has passed a law about this issue then the results are the same as in today’s society. The NCAA will be getting all of the profit while only paying coaches and others. Now the question is how will student-athletes be paid? Joe Nocera, who is a writer for the New York Times, posted an article on his solution to paying student-athletes. Mr. Nocera argues that there would be a salary cap placed on every Division I football and basketball team. He stats that “for basketball, the cap would be $650,000. In football, it would be $3 million” (Nocera). While having the salary cap for those two sports Mr. Nocera also adds that there would be a minimum of a $25,000 salary for players in those respective sports. Now instead of recruiter’s getting recruits to come to school for the weight room or the academics, the athlete would now choose the school who essentially offers the most money. Mr. Nocera notes that the contracts that there would have to be contracts negotiated between the player and university. Another important aspect to the solution is the creation of unions to represent the athletes themselves. This is because, “salary caps, of course, violate antitrust laws-unless they are negotiated” (Nocera). To end his solution, he also notes that he would make the scholarships the players received

Many players would be very angry if there was salary caps and they would get the same pay as even just decent players or players who sit the bench and barely get any playing time at all. A salary cap would also be unfair to because if players don’t like the caps then they might quite the league. If they quit their league many fans would top coming to games and when that happens stadiums and arenas start losing money, which would be bad for all the sports fans and sports organizations whatever the sport is. A Eagles fan from Philadelphia said “If they start With these salary caps and players quit on the Eagles I will simply stop coming to the games.” Clearly Some fans really do worry about losing players because of salary

Attention material/ Credibility Material: Wouldn't it be great to make 31.3 million dollars a year and an additional 47 million dollars in endorsements simply to play a game? Michael Jordan, along with many other professional athletes thinks so. In the 1996 season, playing 3,106 minutes Michael Jordan made 170,000 dollars a day whether he played or not, equalling out to be 160 dollars a second. Even more unbelievable are Mike Tyson's earnings in his match with

As supported during the debate, the money that would be earned by these athletes and other entertainers would be most beneficial if it was distributed among the poor or least fortunate. I understand the unfairness that might come across to some people but that’s what keeps an economy growing. Constant competition works in any aspect of life wether it may be in a work environment or on a sports team. Competition makes people want to do better! If we lose competition within our economy, people would start to feel as if they don’t have to work as hard being that there is an income cap limiting others’ incomes to, relatively, match their own. At the beginning of the debate, I was sure that I did not want the income cap until the con side made an extremely strong argument against the fact. Is there a valid reason why these people with no valuable power are being paid so much? This question posed by the con side made me