Expansion Of The College Football

College football has dramatically changed how viewers watch the sport. It all started with transforming rugby into american football, which made a huge impact on today’s society. With the rules having a huge change from 1880 to the 2016 (Watterson John Sayle). Football has increased the amount of views because how popular it has become to the audience since the 1890s (Gridiron Football). Football has changed dramatically since the beginning of the game.

College athletic programs are among the most popular sporting events in America. With this rise in popularity, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and its colleges have also seen a rise in revenue in recent years. In 2014, the NCAA made over 900 million dollars in revenue. Some collegiate coaches, such as Kentucky’s John Calipari, have yearly salaries in the millions, not counting incentives and endorsement deals. While, clearly, money is being made, NCAA regulations ban collegiate athletes from being paid. Many question this rule and argue that athletes at the college level earn and deserve pay for play. The debate to pay or not to pay college athletes rages on despite the latest court ruling supporting NCAA policies. Because colleges and universities earn such a profit from sporting events, many fans feel it is only fair to distribute some of the wealth to the players. Supporters of paying student athletes feel that these young men and women should be fairly compensated for the time demanded of the athletes and the stress put on the athletes, physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially. Those in favor of paying college athletes contend that athletic and academic work ethic at both high school and collegiate levels will improve, as well as, fiscal responsibility in these young adults. The NCAA argues that paying athletes would negatively affect their

“A 2007 Gallup poll showed that 85% of college football fans supported a change to a playoff system of some kind. 69% of fans surveyed preferred the idea of a playoff tournament involving the top four, eight, or 16 teams to replace bowl games while 16% favored a one-game playoff between the top teams emerging from bowl games.”

A playoff system would extend the 13 week regular season by at least a month, which would interfere with athlete’s college studies and would also potentially led to more injuries from playing. There is a lot wrong with college athletics. Many football and basketball players are funneled through the system without receiving much of an education. Coaches and administrators are paid salaries that invite questionable ethics. Too many athletes arrive on campus completely unprepared to be educated and solely interested in the development of their bodies. Some people have forgotten how important a college education is. Making the college football season longer only hurts the players. Most college athletes don’t go on to become professional athletes. The more class time they can get the better.

Including more than four teams is what the college football world wants. It would make so much more sense to do it that way. For example, this season, the Memphis Tigers are ranked 13th in the nation. With a four team playoff, it doesn’t give Memphis a chance to prove their worth. If the committee was to accept a bigger playoff, perhaps a 16 team playoff, teams like Memphis will get a chance to win a National Championship. Teams like the previously mentioned Utah Utes will get a title shot if they expand.

The main issue at hand is that the NCAA is currently benefiting extremely well financially from the top powerhouse conferences (Southeastern Conference, Pacific 12, Big 10) and its billion dollar a year athletic programs (LSU football & baseball, USC football, and Michigan football & basketball for example). The Association has full control over these student athletes, and through various legal loopholes, they exercise this power to exploit their unrecognized workforce to generate billions of dollars in revenues. In doing so, the Association restricts the amount of compensation athletes may earn, rather paying them semester stipends for school related purchases.

The 2016 NCAA College Football Playoff Championship game aired January 11, 2016, to an audience of over twenty-five million people (Consoli). A thrilling game saw the Alabama Crimson Tide win their fourth championship in the past seven years, defeating the Clemson Tigers of South Carolina. Coverage of the game was provided by sports media behemoth ESPN, which had agreed to pay 5.64 billion dollars over ten years, or 470 million dollars per year, for the exclusive rights to broadcast the game (Hinnen, par. 3). Advertisements greeted viewers at every opportunity, whether it be the sponsored segments during the broadcast (i.e. the “Buick Halftime Report”) or commercials during breaks in the contest. By the end of the game , millions of dollars

With every beginning to an individual’s sports career, there has to be an end. Most player’s careers end after their four years of playing a high school sport. Although many high school players want the opportunity to play sports in college, most are unaware of the increased workload required to play a college sport. When a high school player thinks about continuing their career to play college sports they often imagine the transition into college as being uncomplicated.

As the NCAA's Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and March Madness continue to grow, the organization has been struggling to uphold its nonprofit status and validate not paying its athletes. Between national television deals, apparel licensing, and even the recently discontinued "EA Sports NCAA Football" series, the NCAA has all the means to comfortably compensate players; albeit maybe none of the desire. Therefore, the true financial tipping point in the NCAA's favor would be the preemptive development and implementation of a self-regulated pay structure outside the academic system.

College football is a big deal, especially in the heartland and the American south, leading to big teams with even bigger payrolls. College football coaches should not be paid as much as they are - that is a side effect of the entertainment industry being as big as it is. For example, Lincoln Riley, OU's new coach starting this season, just accepted a contract to get paid 3.1 million dollars per year, and for that pay to increase over the next 5 years by 200,000 dollars per year. People shouldn’t give so much money to the entertainment companies. Instead, we as a nation should recognize that there are harder careers that contribute much more to this society – like

In the world college basketball, most basketball players come and go. Moreover, these athletes remain in a conundrum. For those unaware, professional sports remains as volatile as a high-risk investment. This remains attributed to the uncertainty pertaining to professional players. With that being said, numerous players get injured and lose their dreams of playing the sport professionally. In spite of all of these risks, several college basketball teams continue to produce desirable talent. Moreover, these athletes would cease to exist without the assistance of a coach. To expound further, college basketball coaches play an integral role in defining an athlete's strength and using these strengths to their advantage. Furthermore, college basketball

In the next few paragraphs, you will learn about the evolution of College Football. First, one of the evolutions about college football is the first game that was played in New Jersey. According to www.ncaa.com, “Rutgers and New

In the past few decades college sports have grown immensely in popularity nationwide, especially when the bigger events such as March Madness and the College Football National Championship arise. Even though the NCAA considers themselves to be a non profit organization, March Madness is such a huge event that in 2011 the NCAA made an agreement with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting System to let them broadcast the games until 2024 for $10.8 billion, but during March Madness they make almost $800 million every year from jersey, ticket, and product sales ("Revenue"). Depending on how far some of the colleges go these universities could make an extra few million also. None of the money the colleges or the association makes is given to the student athletes. They are the ones that work so hard to help bring in all of the revenue for their schools and the NCAA but get nothing in return. Besides bringing in revenue for their school if they prove that they are a good collegiate school it will make high school students look further into their school and potentially attend that university. According to the NCAA for any student athlete to be eligible and still be considered amateur they are not allowed to receive salary for participating in any athletic program nor are they allowed to be given prize money above necessary expenses, ("Amateurism") However a common view is that college athletes should not be paid because most of them already receive a free education and get

The NCAA conducts national championship games for women and men, and sells broadcasting and media rights to these events; which are deemed business activities. These activities also satisfy the Sherman Act’s jurisdictional requirements that conduct alleged to violate antitrust laws that affect interstate trade or commerce (Mitten, M., Davis, T., & Shropshire, K., Osborne, Smith, R, 2013p.84). Moreover, I feel that college athletes should receive a paycheck every week, along with their academic scholarship paid in full. Intercollegiate athletics is now a multibillion-dollar sport industry and the NCAA has sought to capitalize on the popularity of its members’ athletic departmensrs and to increase their revenues (Mitten, M., Davis, T., & Shropshire, K., Osborne, Smith, R, 2013p.82). I believe that collegiate athletes revenues should be increased also: my

"Surely, the NCAA and Division I-A football can join the other 23 intercollegiate sports and devise a system that determines a true champion, preserves the integrity of the game and levels the playing field, LaVell Edwards, Former Brigham Young University Coach.” This statement was made to the Senate last summer by the only coach to win a national championship at Brigham Young. In every other collegiate sport in the United States the champion is decided by a playoff system. Even the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL the champion is decided by a playoff. The excuse that most of BCS executives is that you cannot have one hundred twenty teams playing in a playoff. Nevertheless, the FCS formerly Division 1-AA who has one hundred forty teams plays under a very effective 16 team playoff format. The BCS has infringed themselves among college football due to the root of all sins, money. In January 10, 2010