Get Football Out Of Our Universities Rhetorical Analysis

College Football is American Football played by student athletes at universities and colleges around the Nation. In American Football they have a Quarterback, in most cases, the Quarterback is the leader and focal point of the Football Team. At the University of Florida, they had a guy named Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow was the Heisman winning and Star Quarterback for the University of Florida Gators, but was also well known for his public display of religious faith on and off the Football Field. On September 27, 2008, the Florida Gators lost a disappointing game against the Ole Miss Rebels; Where Tim Tebow was stopped 1 yard shy away from giving the Gators a chance to win the game. It was a disappointing loss as the Florida Gators were expecting an undefeated season, and another shot at College Football’s National Championship. After the game at the usual post game conference, an obvious emotional Tim Tebow talked about the struggles of the game and delivered the famous “I Promise” speech that will be forever remembered at the University of Florida and College Football history. Tim Tebow’s speech empowered and inspired football fans across the nation and was the reason his team won the National Championship.

In his article “The Shame of College Sports,” Taylor Branch (2011) describes how universities are focused on advancing and receiving money from major athletics and having star athletes, but how the universities are not caring for the “student athlete.” The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has made college sports into an unmerited business. However, as years progress more athletes are getting smart and are taking the NCAA to court. The more students that challenges the rules by the NCAA and take them to court, the secrets and undermining values of the NCAA come out and the closer the NCAA comes to an end.

The author appeals to the readers emotions by trying to gain their sympathy for the players and students. Buzz Bissinger argues that, “The players themselves don’t benefit, exploited by a system in which they don’t receive a dime of compensation” (Why College Footbal Should Be Banned). The authors goal is to make the readers sympathize the players because they do not receive benefits for being apart of the football program like the coaches do. He also states that colleges should not be making students pay fees that go towards the football programs because students are there to get an education and to be prepared for their future. Bissinger wants the students to be sympathized also because they are being cheated out of having a better education. The colleges are more worried about fees, which the students pay, going to football programs rather than going towards the college itself. Bissinger also briefly mentions the “medical dangers” that football can cause on players. He mentions they can get “head trauma over reptitive hits” which can lead to problems later on in life. He uses health risks to show readers that it can be dangerous and can affect their academic life. The author uses the sympathy to help the power of his message he is trying to get across and to move the readers

Sports have always been a hot topic in the academic world. They are seen as a great extracurricular activity that creates a sense of community between players. On the other hand, sports are viewed as a distraction from school. Everyone can agree that sports have become the focal point at many schools leading teachers to feel academics have become secondary. The seemingly endless debate is addressed by Dr. Mark Edmundson in an article of his that was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

It was a clear afternoon on November 10th, 1928 when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team took the field against the Black Knights of Army. Army was the number one team in the nation that year, and Notre Dame was having one of their worst seasons ever under the leadership of legendary coach Knute Rockne. At the end of the opening half, neither team had managed to score.

College athletics is a very diverse organization involving a lot of students, mainly as the players, and non-students such as officials, coaches and others. The leading governing body for college athletics is the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA. College sports is itself a big industry involving sponsorships, TV networks, endorsements, retail products and marketing. But in spite of it being a big business, the players are not compensated for the work they deliver. This opens up two opinions: should players be paid, or should they not? Kristi Dosh’s article, “The Problems With Paying College Athletes”, (UNCLEAR)discusses where the coaches’ money come from to pay student athletes. On the other hand, Mark Cassell’s article, “College Athletes Should Be Able To Negotiate Compensation”, debates how athletes should be able to negotiate their compensation. This paper will evaluate the evidence of both Dosh and Cassell in order to determine which argument is more effective.

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Peter Park 2/6/2016 Language Arts 6-6 Football Argumentative Essay Final Draft Football and Concussions: the Crisis on Our Hands Football is America’s banner sport. Every year, millions of people watch the National Football League either genuinely on stadiums or live on televisions. The NFL is treated like a golden piggy: fragile, but all-powerful in money making. However, it seems that America’s front-runner sport is in a crisis. Concussions are having a seismic effect on youth football.

The “contradiction at the heart of big-time college football,” as Michael Oriard describes it, is the competing demands of marketing and education. The 1890s proved to university administrators that there was an enormous market for collegiate football, which postulated opportunities for university building. Since this ubiquitous realization, there has coincided this blatant, yet unchanging contradiction that academic institutions are permitted to profit off of the services provided by its student-athletes while the athletes must idly accept that they are amateurs, donating their efforts to their respective schools. The schools then direct this revenue toward strengthening their athletic departments, and thus continues this seemingly endless growth of big-time college sports, all while athletes remain uncompensated and academics continue to take a backseat.

When it comes to going to college, one would think that athletic departments at schools like University of Kentucky and University of North Carolina would make the effort to put strong emphasis for their student-athletes to have a high academic standing in order to play. Sadly now a days, the case is the opposite and they ultimately lose as students. Domonique Foxworth, who played college football at the University of Maryland from 2002 to 2004, he sparks conversation with the statement that “When I played college football in the University of Maryland, we kind of had a motto, which is that C’s get degrees. That’s what we do. Everyone pretends, but you know that your responsibility is to win football games.” (Schooled: The Price of College Sports). He also adds that “I knew it was more valuable to my school that I get a C on an exam. An interception on Saturday than it was that I get straight A’s and get no interceptions on Saturday; that doesn’t bring in the fans to fill the stadium” (Foxworth). Kevin Anderson, Athletic Director at University Of Maryland, makes a comment saying “We’re providing an opportunity for a lot of young people that wouldn’t have that opportunity. How do you put a price tag on that? How do you put a price tag on education?”. (Schooled: The Price of College Sports). Foster states on the contrary, “….but football interferes with being a student first” (Foster)

American intercollegiate sporting has come a long way since the humble beginning of 1852, where the two great universities Yale and Harvard butted heads in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. The two rowing teams started something in America that has changed sports for ever. College sports in America, in more cases than not, have become the face of the academic institutions that they represent. Laura Pappano says it the best, sports writer from the New York Times, “Nine of 10 people don’t understand what you are saying when you talk about research universities. But you say ‘Michigan’ and they understand those striped helmets running under the banner.” College sports have become larger than a genuine competition between institutions. It has

“Its time for our college athletes to be true students on campus, not athletes on athletic stipends with sports – not education – as their top priority and obligation… By eliminating the athletic scholarship, … we could de-professionalize college athletes, reestablish athletic departments as part of the educational institution, and be able to use the term student-athlete without snickering.” (Ralph Nader in League of Fans Proposes Eliminating Athletic Scholarships to Help Restore Integrity on College Campuses, 2011)

In the film “The Business of Amateurism” there were a multitude of ethical dilemmas that were called into questioning. One of the many issues that is being prioritized in this paper is the academic short falls with athletes at universities. According to NCAA in 2002 the graduation rate of athletes was at 74% (DeMars, The Business of Amateurs). This information shows how incredibly low the graduation rate was. This is a direct reflection of their priorities to win at all costs.

There has been amplified debate on the treatment, education, training of the college athlete. To avoid exploitation of athletes, “The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), formed in 1905, set bylaws requiring college student-athletes to be amateurs in order to be eligible for intercollegiate athletics competition” (Schneider n.p.). Intercollegiate athletics have dramatically changed over the last several decades. Currently, intercollegiate athletics generate tremendous amounts of revenue, remarkably in football and basketball. College sports in America is a

Sports is a phenomena in the US that brings people together, but it is always being put on a pedestal and being glorified and because of that we have an academic decline in the US. A student who moved