College Athletes Vs Ncaa Sports

The NCAA has been around and evolved since the beginning of college sports. This organization is a non-profitable organization, but ironically makes more than millions of profit per year. Branch states “that money comes from a combination of ticket sales, concession sales, merchandise, licensing fees, and other sources—but the great bulk of it comes from television contract”(pg. 228). Meanwhile, the student-athletes do not receive any of this money. This is the start of an unsubstantial business between universities built around amateurism.

It is the NCAA’s policy that no student athlete shall receive any special benefits or compensation in regard to their status as an athlete of a university. This basically means that no player can accept gifts or services with any special benefits from school or athletic personnel, or receive any benefits for outside entrepreneurship for reasons regarding their play. For example, a student athlete cannot sign a jersey with their number on it and exchange it for any type of compensation. However, over the past few years, many scandalous conspiracies of soliciting services to athletes for their commitment and play have surfaced. Due to the NCAA’s stance on this issue many of these violations have left athletics programs with sanctions that in reality are very unnecessary and hardly ever punish those who initially violated the rules. The fact is that the college athletics generates on average 10.5 billion dollars of revenue annually, and the NCAA organization alone, about 720 million annually. Of that 720 million that the NCAA accounts for, only 60 percent of that is returned to the Division I universities whose athletics accounted for almost all of it. The rest is dispersed into other funds such as championship games and the national office services, with a small amount being paid to division II and III schools. However, of that 60 percent paid back to the Division I schools, which amounts to approximately 430 million dollars, the majority is spent by the University on

Every year, thousands of student athletes across the world sign the NCAA’s 08-3A Form, also called the “Student-Athlete” form, which waives their right to receive money for the use of their name and image. Like many of us in this class, these college athletes devote their time to their academics while spending additional hours with training and practices throughout the day and receive no stipend in return. This 08-3A form defines college athletes as amateurs, who cannot receive payment for playing their desired sport. While their schools and coaches may make millions of dollars in salaries and endorsement deals and are the highest-paid public employees in many states due to their performances in their desired sport, these “amateurs” can never

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

There are rules and regulation for everything. The DMV requires certain forms of identification for your driver’s license and the IRS requires you to file your income tax in a certain way to avoid penalty. It is no different when we are talking about the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). NCAA has strict regulation on its players and its member schools that must abide by. Although NCAA regulates pretty much everything through its 427-page manual, some rules were difficult if not impossible to enforce. In the case of Oliver v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, the conflict emerges as Andy Oliver questioned NCAA’s power to regulate in the face of court.

When people hear of college athletics, all they think of is a game. Most people do not realize that there is a million dollar industry going on around these athletes. Eric He, a sports fanatic who writes for the Daily Trojan, states, “The NCAA is a nonprofit, tax exempt organization that just happens to be a billion-dollar industry, raking in $740 million per year from March Madness alone” (par. 7). When the NCAA is generating that much money, how can it not go to the players? It is not the

Whether the sport is basketball, baseball, volleyball, football or swimming, college athletes bring in an immense amount of surplus revenue and popularity to the college they attend. For example, a study held by Orlando Sentinel estimates that the University of Texas Athletic Program had the highest income of any other university at $120,288,370 (Robbins). Given the amount of money generated for the university, no player was legally paid for their athletic performance. According to NCAA regulations, "You are not eligible for participation in a sport if you have ever taken pay, or the promise of pay, for competing in that sport” (Staff. 2). With that regulation being stated, it has been rumored athletes are being paid through black markets. Josh Luchs, a sports agent who broke many NCAA violations however, now fights for NCAA reform stated, "Inside Higher Education reported that 53 of 120 FBS schools were caught violating NCAA rules in between 2001-10” (Dohrmann).

When it comes to college athletics, there always will be a problem that arises. It is one of the most controversial topics there is. One of the main issues within athletics is the idea of whether to pay college athletes or not. Several studies have been done along with articles from various sources. This has been on the rise especially since “March Madness” is coming up. “March Madness” may only consist of three weekends, however, an 11 billion dollar deal is made to televise the games (Wilbon). This is when you have to take the time to sit back and contemplate whether these college athletes really are getting the fair end of the stick. Under NCAA laws it is forbidden to pay these athletes for their performance yet at the same time they

The ugly truth behind the money machine that is college sports is that, every year, college athletes are deceived by the institutions the compete for into making them millions of dollars, with relatively little in return. Athletes are said to be given a chance to attend college and to attain a free college degree. However, research has shown that this is not completely true for two reasons. For one, the student athlete will spend most of their time in preparation for competition. Secondly, what education the student athlete does receive hardly serves them outside of maintaining eligibility just so

An article written by Ryan Swanson of the Washington Post, Swanson points out that these college athletes deserve to be paid but have limited rights due to the NCAA guidelines. The NCAA is a multi-billion dollar corrupt business, that is supposed to protect their athletes not to exploit them for money. (Swanson)

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is one of the biggest sports organizations in the United States. One of the most divisive issues relating to the NCAA over the last several years has been the issue of athlete compensation. There are many sports—particularly football and basketball—that bring in incredible amounts of revenue to colleges across the country; therefore, whether or not athletes should be compensated for their role in college sports has become a topic of debate. While scholarship athletes are already compensated by their access to tutors, meals and a free education, the concept of the student-athlete has deteriorated over time and thus athletes should be able to make money by signing autographs or making public appearances while they are in school. In addition, the big four American professional sports do not give amateurs an opportunity to play aside from Major League Baseball, which funnels athletes to college sports and in turn ushers them into a place where they cannot profit from their athletic ability. The issue is clearly a complex and unethical one. It would be difficult for schools to pay athletes fairly as certain sports would appear entitled to more money based on profitability; however, players should undoubtedly be able to benefit from their athletic prowess by selling merchandise and profiting from their stature in general. The NCAA’s stance hindering players’ ability to sell autographs and other memorabilia is just as important to this

This also takes time away from college athletes who would need the extra money from picking up a job, rather than practicing every day for their sport, and playing in games and traveling. In addition, one person who is representative of the unfair restrictions set upon college athletes is Ed O’Bannon, who is suing the NCAA for using his image in a basketball video game. O’Bannon is suing because he knows that the NCAA is making a lot of money off of the video game which includes his image, jersey number, and name, and yet has received no compensation from the video game. In addition, O’Bannon’s lawsuit over NCAA has also sparked many other questions about whether or not college athletes should be paid in addition to their scholarships or not. “The high coaches’ salaries and rapidly increasing spending on training facilities at many schools suggest that these schools would, in fact, be able to afford to offer their student-athletes a limited share of the licensing revenue generated from their use of the student-athlete's’ own names, images, and likenesses,” Judge Wilken wrote. Scholarships granted to athletes are also not necessarily “full rides”. “The report by Ithaca College researchers and a national athletes' advocacy group shows that the average "full scholarship" Division I athlete winds up having to pay $2,951

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decides that the NCAA’s payment rules do not allow college athletes to obtain the money they deserve. The court also ruled that the antitrust law states that the NCAA allows the school to only pay for the athlete’s tuition. A New Orleans business reporter did an article over a basketball player, named Ed O’Bannon, who believed that he was being robbed of money that he rightfully deserved. In 2009, O’Bannon, who played basketball for the University in California at Los Angeles, sued the National Collegiate American Association for using his name and image on television and in video games. A group of other students joined O’Bannon in trying to fight the NCAA. They challenged that the amateurism rules were not fair to athletes because other people were profiting off of their name and actions. The NCAA then stated that the players signed a waiver stating the NCAA would be allowed to use the player’s name and image. O’Bannon’s legal team then argued that the players are forced to sign that waiver in order to play college sports (“Federal Appeals”).

Elec. Arts, Inc. NCAA Football franchises became popular because it provided its users with realistic game modes. That brought in the idea of EA Sports using college players likeness as a way to make the game more realistic. The game did not feature the players’ names per se but other stats about the players were in the game that made the athletes feel like they were actually in the game. In Harte’s case the quarterback for Rutgers, where he went to school, was number 13, 6’2” tall, weights 197 lbs, and resembled Harte. Harte sued EA Sports and the case went to court where the court ruled that EA Sports was protected by the First Amendment. EA Sports might be protected by the Constitution; however, they cannot have any financial gain while using someone else’s likeness. Harte believed that he should be compensated, because his privacy rights had been infringed. Harte has the right to privacy under the Constitution and he might not want his stats, height, weight, hometown, out in the public view. I believe that Harte’s privacy rights have been broken in this case and that he should be compensated for that. An athlete has a right to privacy and it is the job of the courts to up hold that

College athletes are not being paid for their labor, which schools profit from. “The NCAA (National College Athletics Association) earns about $4 billion in licensing fees each year. In 2010, the NCAA signed a 14-year, $10.8 billion contract with CBS and Turner Sports to have exclusive rights to show the men’s college basketball tournament, which takes place every year” (Miller). Student-athletes are being exploited by the NCAA and there’s nothing they can do about it. Exploitation happens when student-athletes, who are making large amounts of money for their schools, often are not receiving any kind of admissible, quality education. Another form a student-athlete is exploited, the value of