College Student Athletes

Academic success is important for both high school and college athletes. To be eligible to participate, athletes must maintain a certain GPA. Student athletes that don’t make school a priority, not only miss out on playing time, but also fail to prepare themselves for the next step in their life. For high school athletes, that means prepare for college while for college athlete, it means preparing to enter the workforce. Although, both high school and

Should high school athletes be required to have a 2.5 GPA to play? Considering athletics consume a significant amount of time, athletes should set time aside for academics as well. Student athletes should have at least 2.5 GPA to be eligible for a sport because they need to give 100% for both school and sports, managing their time, and also are held to a higher expectation.

Rodeo is a very thrilling, exciting, and dangerous sport. During rodeos, one meets many new people, travels across the United States of America, and has the glorious Friday night lights shining down on them. During high school rodeo and college rodeo athletes must meet different levels of expectations; their performance because of scholarships or money, their coaches or parent’s expectations, and academic success. Expectations for college rodeo athletes are higher than the expectations for high school rodeo athletes. First off, high school contestants do not have to perform great to keep scholarships given to them. High school rodeo athletes are not on scholarship to rodeo. The money they use to rodeo comes from the contestant and his parents. Therefore, the contestant only

High school sports make student athletes strive for better success in their education. Sure some Schools have a minimum G.P.A requirement of 2.0, and to get that all your classes have to be “C” or better. Well that’s better than letting them have a 1.0 and letting them play. It makes them have something worth studying for, For example my friend Bryan Garcia does not like school or work but he is always looking for ways to make his grades better so that he may play with the John F. Kennedy soccer team. Also not all the states in the United States of America have a G.P.A requirement to play in a sport activity, twelve out of the fifty states in the USA require a G.P.A to play."A High School Athlete 's GPA Vs. Average High School Student 's GPA." Everyday Life. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2016.”Sports participation is associated with higher GPAs, lower dropout rates and stronger commitments to school compared to the average,non-athlete high school student”. Also they made a study for Kansas in 2008-2009 between athletes and non-athletes,Academic Performance Of Athletes And Non‐Athletes, and Page 41. COMPARING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES AND NON-ATHLETES IN KANSAS IN 2008-2009 (n.d.): n. pag. Web.”high school athletes earned higher grades,graduated at a higher rate, dropped out of school less frequently, and scored higher on state assessments than did non-athletes”. Student athletes have a greater chance of graduating with a 3.0 or more. They are more

Should College Athletes Get Paid? Would you like to work harder in college sports if you got paid? I know I would. I’m talking about this topic because I think it’s important that the college athletes get something for themselves. College athletes should get paid because some of them are tempted to gamble or accept illegal payments, they win games for their university in the premier sport, and they do the same stuff as professional athletes.

SMU became the University of the death penalty because they were cheating and using money to get top high school football athletes. That is against the rules of the NCAA for a short period of time they have gotten away with it but finally got caught when former football players came out and speak on the matter to the media. Which they made it public and the NCAA had to take charge and punish SMU for their actions. Which lead to the death penalty and for future football athletes they had to suffer from the death penalty. Overall, the players did not have to take the money but most did and it cost scholarships, being ban from bowl games, and no home games in 1987.

Organized sports offer an opportunity for students to get a structural athletic experience while also achieving a college education at the same time. Student athletes must have the ability to balance the roles of being both a full-time student and athlete. Although college athletes are ammeters and not professionals they inhabit all the qualities that professional athletes have. The NCAA and all colleges sell merchandise that have everything to do with the athletes, while they are not getting any cut whatsoever. College athletes think they should get paid because of how much money they bring to the school.

College sports are a big thing in America. Almost every student goes to college after high-school. In high-school most athletes play more than one sport. They play football, basketball and run track or play baseball as well. After the students get done with high-school they move over to college. College sports are way different than high-school sports. Athletes spend more time on college sports than they did on high-school sports. In College they play just one sport, not like in high-school where they play many different sports. College athletes spend about 40 hours per week on their sport and they also have to manage the academic part of college. That means college students are really busy during their season. Most of the time college athletes are there on a scholarship, which means that they don’t have to pay quite as much as normal students. So the athletes basically played sports so they don’t have to pay too much for college. Most college athletes don’t think a scholarship is enough, and therefore should be paid to play college sports because they don’t have time to work, the risks to get injured are high, it is not afforced for some students.

Imagine you are a salesman and just made an enormous sell but you don’t receive any of the money you just brought in to your company. Well being an athlete at a top program is very similar to that scenario. College athletics is a billion dollar industry, universities generate so much revenue during the year it would only be fair if the players received a part of their share. On the other hand people believe athletic scholarships, meal plans, tutors, and a roof over their head is more than enough compensation.

Everyone wants to be a champion. Many people have the dream of becoming a college athlete and going down in history. With the many controversies in athletics today it is getting harder to fulfill this dream. One of the main controversies is college athletes becoming employees of the college. There are many reasons why athletes should not be employees. College athletes should not be considered employees of the college it will send a bad message to younger generations, cause contract disagreements and lastly it would make the cost of colleges much high than they are.

College athletes are finally getting attention on the fact that they are not paid. I believe that whether or not it is college or pro sports they deserve a salary. These players put their heart and soul on the field and get nothing in return. In the articles “Athletes New Day” by Paul Marx and “College Athletes Should Not Be Paid” by Warren Hartenstine, the reasons for college athletes to be paid are very evident. No matter the case, if the students move on to pro sports or not after college, they should be entitled to some pay for their contributions. College athletes deserve to be compensated for their playtime in these sports, sales of products with their name on it, and even compensation for their injuries.

Branch stated "We are imposing amateurism on these students". I think this is very important because it makes it clear what is really going on in the world of collegiate athletics. Athletes are not given a choice, they are told what to do and how to do it; with no option to object. Before some rules came into play really talented athletes went straight to the professional level without going to college. Now athletes have to go to college for at least one year or so depending on the sport they play. This in turn helps bring in the millions of dollars for the schools. So why can't the athletes that make this all possible receive some form of compensation?

According to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, 480,000 college students were recruited to continue their education while playing the sports they love (“NCAA Recruiting Facts”). Several Americans question the lack of income for collegiate athletes, including college athletes that find themselves battling for a share of the NCAA’s profits in courtrooms. The last reported revenue of the National Collegiate Athletic Association from 2011-2012 was $871,600,000 (“NCAA Benefits to College Student-Athletes”). Therefore, one would one think that the NCAA can afford to pay its players. However, those who believe it is possible to add student athletes to the universities’ payrolls are incorrect. Per the NCAA, while the amount of revenue

“After committing to the University of Oklahoma as a ninth-grader, Kyle Hardrick took the court in 2009. It was a dream come true for Hardrick. An injury to his knee put his future and his scholarship on hold. When Hardrick tried to resume his career, he was unable to obtain a medical hardship waiver, something he needed to regain a year of college eligibility. His family was stuck with tuition bills since his scholarship was not renewed. With those bills unpaid, he was unable to get his academic transcripts from Oklahoma to transfer to another school” (For College Scholarship Athletes, Injury Can Spell Financial Disaster). As scholarships are renewed every year, stories like Hardrick’s emerge across the country but can be avoided if the student-athlete had compensation to fall back on.

This article takes a look into how to change the perception of college athletics by making universities realign their athletic department to the university’s mission of academics. Gordon Gee is spearheading this reform throughout the NCAA and started this by moving Vanderbilt’s athletic department into their Division of Student Life department. This is just one of the ways he believes universities can reform their athletic department. Many believe that athletes take easy classes in order to keep their GPA up so they remain eligible for their sports , which in some cases are true as mentioned in $chooled: The price of College Sports (2013) a documentary that looked into the world of college sports. They discussed that some students were taking