Have you ever thought why college football doesn't have a playoff while watching your favorite team play? Well I'm here to say why the BCS should be replaced by a playoff system or something similar to it . If you are wondering what the BCS is, it pins the top 2 ranking teams against each other while the other top 8 teams have 4 bowl games. The top 2 teams are chose from biased polls from the coaches, people, and a computer. The playoffs are unbiased and depend on skill, because it only goes by the top record teams (9-0, 7-2).
One reason why the BCS should be replaced is, the polls used to determine the top 2 teams are biased. One third of the ranking is from the coaches’ vote. The coaches have to watch every game of the season to truly know who to vote for, and train their team for the next game. The coaches also will vote for their own team to make it into the bowl game. To show how much the coaches vote matter think of it this way; if 100 people vote 33 of the votes would be coaches votes.
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Statistics from the Gallup poll stated 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% preferred a one-game playoff between the top teams emerging from the post-season bowl games.” The way that the sport runs is from the money the teams make from their fans. If the fans get what they want, more people will come to the games, and more money will be
Is it fair for an organization to make $912 million in revenue and not pay the employees that bring in all that money? This only sounds right if the organization being discussed is a circus and the employees not being paid were the performing animals. The National NCAA is a fully commercialized multi-billion dollar industry that regulates players to the point of exploitation. Every staff member from the NCAA, universities athletic staff, and the event staff are paid from the television revenue, ticket and jersey sales, likeness promotions and other sources of income. The ones who are left out, the athletes, are the ones who actually create the value.
With the annual debate revived by fans and sportswriters, the involvement of the federal government, and the financial benefit that bowl games offer schools, the issue of wheatear to replace the Bowl Championship Series with a playoff system continues to be one of the most discussed aspects of college football. Most people agree the Bowl Championship Series should be replaced by a playoffs, however there are a few who believe otherwise. The Bowl Championship Series works, and college football has never been more successful, thrilling, popular, or more enjoyable than ever. The Bowl Championship Series is fairer, safer and more effective than a playoffs.
Should the NCAA allow college football athletes be shown the money…or not? This is a debatable question facing college sports. College football players generate billions in revenue for the NCAA and intercollegiate athletic departments of their respective universities, yet are only compensated by colleges through athletic scholarships that cover tuition, room and board, and books. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), on one side of the debate are the defenders of amateur passion, asserting that to play for pay would destroy campus sports and a football player should play for the love of the game. The National College
Year after year fans enjoy nail biting moments produced by the NCAA basketball tournament and football season. Many would argue that the NCAA provides a product that matches up with the professionals both competitively and financially. The only difference is that professionals get paid for the revenue that they bring in while NCAA athletes do not. It is time for change, college athletes should be monetarily compensated because they are the ones who have made the NCAA profitable for many years.
Imagine putting all of your time and energy into your work and being able to see it pay off. Great, right? However, at the end of the day, you are forbidden by law to receive payment for all of your drudgery. This is exactly how NCAA football players feel every day. The NCAA stands for the National Collegiate Athletic Association. This non-profit organization was founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. It is responsible for forming every law that applies to all college athletic sports, in order to protect the student athletes participating. One of these regulations forbids the payment of players. Paying NCAA football players would give them something to fall back on, be fair, help grow earnings for universities, and widen the athletic competition.
“It’s down to seven seconds. You see the time…Whittenburg…. Oh it’s a long ways, Oh he’s there! They won it…on a dunk!” Billy Packer said this when covering the historical run by the NC State Wolfpack to win the Division 1 NCAA tournament in a dramatic fashion. A team with no chance of making the tournament, let alone winning the championship, does the impossible and wins the NCAA Division 1 championship. Despite NC State being a smaller school compared to the big basketball powerhouses like Virginia, UNC, Houston and many others, they had players work and will their way to the finish line. If players were paid, you wouldn’t see players like Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, or Ralph Sampson on different teams. It would be the college with the most money, could pay the best student-athletes, the most money and Cinderella stories for the most part would disappear. Dynasties of college sports would be made. Money would ruin college sports more than it already has. It has already stripped championships, ruined players images and futures, and tarnished reputations of colleges. The Fab 5, the near “3-Pete” for Oklahoma University, and the USC Trojans football team scandal, are just a few instances where college sports were affected wrongly by the idea of “play for pay.” Colleges and Universities should not pay students to participate in college sports because of all the benefits the athletes receive, the fact that the colleges wouldn’t be able to pay for other
College sports has become extremely popular over the past few years. With the March Madness tournament held in March and the new College Football Playoff held in January, the NCAA has achieved a great deal of attention and high television ratings. Although colleges make tons of money off of their athletes, college athletes receive plenty of compensation. Paying student athletes would cross the line between professionalism and amateurism and would violate the essence of being a student athlete.
When I first read about this course in a summer email, I was blown away by the description and content of the reacting class. It seemed like more of a fun game that a few good friends might play rather than an honors history course. Over the past few months, I have seen that this course is a combination of game and class, which, in turn, makes learning fun. This is the reason that I have learned much about history and perhaps even more about myself during this course.
The debate on whether college athletes should be paid to play is a sensitive controversy, with strong support on both sides. College athletics have been around for a long time and always been worth a good amount of money. This billion dollar industry continues to grow in popularity and net worth, while they continue to see more and more money come in. The student-athletes who they are making the money off of see absolutely none of this income. It is time that the student-athletes start to see some of this income he or she may by helping bring the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There are many people who do not think this is in the best interest of the student-athletes or Universities, but that being said there are also many
The System for college athletes isnt perfect, and needs to be worked on, a big problem we cannot seem to agree is how to compensate the student-athletes who drive the NCAA. I would like to start off with a question. Are college athletes being compensated enough for the effort they put forth today? Every Day they wake up early and represent their university whether they are putting in work in class or on the field. Each student-student athlete generates tons of money for their university and they don’t see a dime other than their scholarship that may or may not been renewed every year. Keep that question in mind while reading this essay, and form your own opinion.
On January 12th 2015 Ohio States football team strapped on their helmets and laced up their shoes to play The Oregon Ducks football team in the BCS Championship Game on National television. This year was particularly special because the NCAA changed the format for the Bowl Season for this year but for the foreseeable future. This year was the first year of the playoff system, in years before this the
Even though an additional $2,000 a semester does not seem like a lot of money, for some smaller market colleges this extra expense may create problems. That is why I suggest either requiring the NCAA itself to provide the extra money to the players or allowing the players to make money off of jersey sales, autograph signings, etc. By potentially taking this financial burden away from the schools and transferring it the NCAA you avoid putting undo stress on smaller schools and instead ask the NCAA, a multi-billion dollar industry, to barely dip into their huge expanse of funding/profit. Furthermore, the NCAA itself is considered a non-profit organization so instead of hoarding the billions of dollars a year that it earns it should be giving money back to the student-athletes who have made the NCAA what it is today (SOURCE). Even though many schools would not be able to pay student athletes the extra scholarship money many larger schools could easily provide this additional scholarship money. For instance, some schools already pay their head football coaches millions of dollars a year. One specific example of this is Alabama Head Football coach Nick Saban. Saban makes six million dollars a year and also receives other
Ashby claims in a recent article, Ohio State got beat by Virginia Tech in the first game of the 2014 season and would have had absolutely no chance of winning a National Championship if the computers were still in control (Ashby). However in the 2015 College Football Playoff, the Buckeyes claimed the final #4 spot in the College Football Playoff and ended up winning the whole playoff. However, with a four team playoff, the Ohio State Buckeyes did not even get the chance to defend their throne in the 2016 CFP because they were ranked #7. Expanding the playoff would only make the job easier for the selection committee and would make a more fair and exciting College Football Playoff. Give a chance to teams that deserve an opportunity to win the CFP.
Cleopatra VII lived interesting life full of war, the kingdom of Egypt and its people, and death. She was a very smart ruler and lived a long life. Cleopatra was in early Egypt and her father was Pharaoh Ptolemy XII. She was Ptolemy’s favorite child and she learned a lot about how the country was ruled from him.
TOPIC: Are the classic techniques of propaganda identified by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis still relevant in modern world? Who uses these techniques and in which context?