The NCAA is an organization of 1,200 member schools/ universities that have banded together to form the rules of college sports. The NCAA head office enforces these stringent and mostly unnecessary rules for the sake of maintaining the extremely high salaries of coaches and athletic directors. Because many athletes can't afford necessities like food, the colleges and/ or the NCAA must reform their “code of amateurism” so that players may receive compensation for their play.
Many proponents of the NCAA and opposes of “pay for play” (paying student athletes for their play) often make the argument that if athletes don't want to go to college, they don't have to. This is far from the truth. Since 2006, the last year high school students could go straight from high school to the pro’s, only three athletes in football and basketball combined have made it to the pro’s without having gone to college. Essentially to play your sport, you must go to college and you must play for free (Drape). Every athlete knows that in order to
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Recruiting the best athletes doesn't mean recruiting the best students. Because of this, it is difficult to have top notch players stay academically eligible. To maintain eligibility, many universities have these athletes take “paper classes”. In these classes, the athlete does not have to show up to class but they must turn in a paper at the end of the semester and the papers are usually marked A or B. This is the reason why at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill so many football players were “taking” Swahili (Native African language) but never learned anything. In the case of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, the paper classes situation was investigated and the NCAA found no wrongdoing on the part of the university (Drape). This sent a message to all other colleges in the country that they can do this same scheme and get away with it because the NCAA will turn a blind
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
Overall the NCAA is the hub for all collegiate sports and allows many students to get a free education. Some might say that athletes should be paid because they bring in tons of money, paying athletes would bring them some sense of financial awareness and because they often don't have enough money for necessities. But they don't deserve to get paid because scholarships are payment enough, because many college kids are irresponsible with money, and the NCAA makes sure the players' have what they need. Many people think that college athletes should be paid, but they shouldn't.
Due to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules and regulations no college athlete is able to receive any compensation or endorsement while participating in college athletics. These rules have long been challenged, however no changes have been made by the NCAA. With universities grossing close to $200 million a year college athletics has turned into one of the top industries in the world. The NCAA is a governing body of college athletics, but without people questioning the NCAA and demanding changes to the monopoly that the NCAA is nothing will happen to the unfairness to college athletes like it is currently.
Although students enjoy playing their own specific sports, they are doing it with millions of people following their path and they are generating millions of dollars to the NCAA, they just are not allowed to have any of it. Therefore, they can not be considered amateurs. In fact, these students really are not even in college to get an education. In her blog Confessions of a Whistleblower, Mary Willingham an academic advisor from the University of North Carolina, revealed that the athletes in the most successful college teams are given paper classes to replace real classes. These paper classes are classes that do not require students to attend class. Their only assignment is to turn in a paper at the end of a semester and are 100 percent of the time graded A or B. A method used to keep students eligible. Also, according to Ross Finkel and Martin Trevor in their documentary Schooled: The Price of College Sports, players have one year contracts with the schools based only on athletics. This means that even if a student-athlete had straight A’s, they could lose their scholarship if they were no longer competing on the field. Their education would be over. Finally, there is transfer rules that restrict athletes from transferring from one four year University to another and play their first year(“Division 1 Initial- Eligibility ToolKit.”). This rule makes it hard for athletes to transfer from
If a college athlete were to have received money, the are deemed ineligible to participate in their sport. Not all students athletes are caught at the time and due to this they play illegally throughout their season. Once the NCAA finds out that the student
Collegiate sports have turned into a billion dollar industry and are probably just as popular, if not more popular than professional sports. College athletes put their bodies on the line to play a sport they love, many with hopes and dreams to one day make it to the professional leagues. Athletic facilities are the major money makers for all universities. Colleges bring in billions of dollars in revenue annually, yet athletes do not get paid. Some fans believe athletes should not get paid due to their sports level being “amateurish.”; however, this is far from the truth. There is much more to being a college athlete than just practicing and playing games. These student-athletes must practice, weight lift, go to meetings, travel, go to tutoring and study groups, all the while maintaining sufficient grades. This is very tedious work and is very time consuming. College athletes have a high standard to live up to (Frederick Web; Huma Web; Patterson Web ).
The majority of student-athletes attend college to receive an education. It is a bonus that they are allowed to play a sport that they love a few years longer, before they have to move on and enter the workforce in the field for which they studied for. Advocates for not providing pay for play
Athletes are giving it there all both on the field and in the classroom. College athletes are brought to the school on scholarships to play sports. These athletes are giving it there all going back and forth from classes, to the weight room, to studying, and to practices. But they mostly spend a lot of time practicing rather than going to classes. ““These young men are laboring under very strict and arduous conditions, so they really are laborers in terms of the physical demands on them while there also trying to go to school and being required to go to school.” Says Robert McCormick (2011, Kenneth J. Cooper). What Robert means is that these students have a huge amount of work load on them while also being required to go to school at the same time. These athletes aren’t like every other students. Even before the school year starts, athletes have to come to schools weeks early. Having a summer off is what normal college students have
College athletics are becoming more like the professional leagues except for one big issue, money. Student athletes bring in a vast amount of revenue for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) not to mention recognition and notoriety regarding the athlete’s university. However, the debate continues as to whether student athletes should or should not receive payment for playing college sports.
Your dream has come true; you're at college playing the sport you love, and at what cost? None. You are free to live your college life worry free and have been given the opportunity to continue your sports career. After you have completed your college education you can get a job, with no college loans that you have to pay off. You are also able to start making money right out of graduation. You get to experience this less stressful college life. The lives of athletes that walk-on and athletes not on a scholarship are stressful ones with many different things to worry about. Those athletes have to worry about how to pay for college and the loans they will have to pay back after graduation. They will have to pay for all their meals, books and the cost for dorms. But what got you here? There were many factors, but one that helped you the most was that you were a diverse athlete.
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
College athletes are not forced into playing the sport that they have devoted their time to during their years in secondary education. They continue to play into the college level for their love of the game.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, better known as the NCAA has been around for years. The NCAA provides the rules and regulations for all intercollegiate sports. The NCAA has very strict rules put in place to keep all players around the same skill level to prevent cheating and misconduct. The NCAA also have rules in place that restrict athletes from being paid for their talents. These athletes that bring in revenue deserve to be paid for their work because of the standards they are held to and the risk of injury they are exposed to.
The overarching reason for this ongoing debate for college athletes all relates to money. At 18 and 19 years old, most athletes do not have access to the amount of money they could potentially make in the NBA. Not only money, but also any sort of benefits that can be provided to them such housing, transportation or significant revenue that can improve the lives of not only themselves but their families. An article reviewing the NCAA business model and the paying of student athletes explains that:
Many still seem to believe a “free” education is more than enough, when in reality, not many players are actually given a free education. While every student has the potential to earn financial aid and academic scholarship money, athletes are also capable of receiving athletic money. A majority of athletes today are either playing without an athletic scholarship or a partial scholarship, in addition to other grants and academic subsidies. To non-athletes, this may seem unfair, but look at the big picture. These athletes are spending much of their time in the gym, on the practice field, and even in the trainer’s room dealing with injuries on a daily basis. It is extremely difficult to manage school, athletics, and life itself at once let