The Collegiate Athletic Association Of College Athletics

The hot topic in amateur sports has been as to whether or not college athletes should be paid. The NCAA amateur rule states that an athlete in college sports cannot be paid other than their athletic scholarship. These athletes spend a tremendous amount of time at school practice and then working on schoolwork after practice. The NCAA is an organization that oversees all of the athletes that make up the basic unit of intercollegiate sports. The success of the NCAA whether it’s through the sale of merchandise, game day revenue or NCAA tournaments that each individual sports has, despite the absolute success of these tournaments these athletes receive any monetary compensation .Some of the main reasons why the NCAA lack of payments are that it wants to maintain its amateur status and

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 NCAA has been around and evolved since the beginning of college sports. This organization is a non-profitable organization, but ironically makes more than millions of profit per year. Branch states “that money comes from a combination of ticket sales, concession sales, merchandise, licensing fees, and other sources—but the great bulk of it comes from television contract”(pg. 228). Meanwhile, the student-athletes do not receive any of this money. This is the start of an unsubstantial business between universities built around amateurism.

The popularity of college sports has risen tremendously throughout the years amongst Americans. The passion to watch college basketball, football, baseball, and other sports has generated billions of dollars to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) and to various athletic programs throughout America. Even though, colleges are raking in millions of dollars from their sports teams. “Last year 's National Collegiate Athletic Association ("NCAA") basketball tournament generated over $70 million in gross receipts” (Goldman).The NCAA prohibits payments, beyond educational scholarships, to athletes who are the source of these revenues. College athletes spend countless number of hours in their sport every day by attending long and tiresome practices, workout sessions, and film sessions whilst balancing their academics, but do not receive any payment for their efforts. Athletes are putting their lives and careers in danger during practices and games by being vulnerable to any type of injury that might end their careers, and many of these athletes are not provided any type of medical insurance to fund their injuries. Colleges need to realize that athletes often feel exploited because while they generate revenues, they are scrounging to meet their basic necessities and sacrificing their academic and professional careers. Many college athletes, professional lawyers, and sports analysts have taken various initiatives to help

The NCAA is one of the most profitable organizations in the world due to their monopoly on major college sports. Across the country there are over one thousand colleges and universities in the NCAA separated into 3 divisions, with a total of 89 different sporting events, and a staggering four hundred thousand student athletes in the organization. The NCAA makes money in primarily one way and that’s ad revenue for the commercials played during an event. In the Men’s NCAA Basketball tournament a 30 second add cost over seven hundred thousand dollars to run. The NCAA is a big business with millions of fans, so it is surprising that so few want to hold them accountable for the damages that they cause in their “amateur athletes”. The only difference

In the professional leagues or sporting activities, sportsmen get pay for their efforts and talents in entertaining the public. Sports acts as a source of income to the participants in the league. It is a different scenario when it comes to NCAA management league. Students do not obtain pay for their services, efforts, talents, and entertainment show to the public. College athletes display their talents to the entire public who enjoy watching them perform. Some scholars argue that students should obtain pay for their efforts and talents while others maintain that college athletes should be contented with what they have as participants. College athletes' payment issue drags the development of the game within the association (NCAA). The debate of whether college athletes should obtain payment for their services needs to rest by extensive solution. The perfect way to solve the issue at hand involves additional payment for the services of the college athletes. This would supplement the scholarships and accommodation fees university and college athletes enjoy currently. College athletes are not gaining payment for participation in the NCAA league because of benefits they acquire from colleges, the act would add to issues in the budget that colleges would not be able to afford. College athletes should obtain payment for their talents and efforts because everyone in the sporting career enjoys payment and wages, to satisfy their needs as human

As I leave with a quote, the NCAA should really take my topic into consideration, realize that some of the athletes could really use the money that the colleges are making off of them. Other observers note that the status quo, in which the NCAA claims to be an amateur organization but reaps large financial rewards, cannot continue; the organization, they say, will eventually either have to become entirely professional—which would include paying athletes—or have to end its corporate partnerships. Former NCAA football player Sack writes, "In past decades, the NCAA substituted a counterfeit version of amateurism for the real thing.… As college sports moves into the second decade of the new millennium, athletes will undoubtedly organize to demand

Ever since its formation in 1910, the National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA, has provided student athletes the ability to attend colleges through scholarships while playing for their schools. However, the ideology of inter-collegiate athletics, amateurism, and sportsmanship masks the troubling problem for many of the players; the ban on paying student athletes. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a 6 billion dollar a year institution that is a so-called, “non-profit organization.” While they claim to provide athletes a gateway to a higher education, their inability to provide any compensation for their hard work and sacrifices make them incredibly exploitative. It is

According to Forbes the NCAA currently produces nearly $11 Billion in annual revenue from college sports -- more than the estimated total league revenues of both the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League. As the world of college sports continues to grow, thrive, and expand; it has become clear that there needs to be changes among the rules of the NCAA. The NCAA place themselves in a position to be one of the most successful nonprofits in the world by not fully compensating its students-athletes. Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, believes that “they are students, not employees.” If this is true then the student-athletes would not be dedicating so much time to the sport, they would not be missing class for their sporting events, and they would not be used as marketing ploys for the college.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a multibillion-dollar industry that has the excitement of fans, attention from the medias, million dollar coaches, and slave-working athletes. It became a bigger business in the last decades of the 20th century drawing broadcast networks, cable networks, commercial endorsement deals, and fans. However, the heart and soul of this business are the student-athletes. Players earn millions to billions of dollars for schools and private companies but must cheat their ways through academics because of demanding schedules, uttering responsibilities, lacking sleep, and screeching injuries. The institutions of athletic scholarships confirmed competitive sports over academics for many players. The school employees earn scholarships that pay for tuition and dorm rooms but fall short of the total cost of attending school. Athletic scholarships are given out once a year, so promises of a full ride is thin. While athletes are contributing, the schools are making. The unjust approach athletes deal to play the sport he or she loves to become an employee of a school and a prize of wage. Athletes created a movement demanding more compensation and better treatment, because they are tired of broken promises by the slow pace system. Although critics believe athletes are exploiting, supporters believe scholars should receive a sufficient reimbursement because the load of debt, unfair treatment, health issues, corruption, and

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 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

Athletics and academics go hand-in-hand when it comes to college athletes, after all, the NCAA (National College Athletic Association) states that the players are students first, and athletes second. Because they are student-athletes, obtaining their degree and furthering their education should come first and foremost; above how many games they win, how many points they score and if the school wins a National Championship. As many know or have seen, this is not always the case especially when it comes to Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) Universities and revenue-generating sports (e.g. Men’s Basketball and Football).

In light of recent court cases such as O’Bannon v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the issue of whether intercollegiate student-athletes should be compensated for their athletic appearances on behalf of colleges has been featured in the news and been the subject of much scholarly writing. Some of the major streams of literature focus on the pros and cons of pay-for-play by looking at existing laws in the United States, the concept of amateurism, and the primary mission of colleges and universities. As institutions of higher education and the NCAA continue to battle over the appropriate role of profit and amateurism in college athletics, this topic is important for anyone considering higher education administration as a career as it impacts all colleges participating in intercollegiate athletics.

Meanwhile, the NCAA maintains that student cannot represent a college or university in any intercollegiate game or contest if they received payments for their athletic ability (NCAA 2013a, p. 1). Article 2.9 of their Constitution reinforces the notion that student-athletes’ participation in intercollegiate sports should be motivated primarily by education and not by the physical, mental, and social benefits to be attained. Student participation in intercollegiate athletics is an avocation, and student-athletes should be protected from exploitation by professional and commercial enterprises (NCAA 2011). Recent research suggests that the problem is that compensating student-athlete is based on a gross distortion of reality because student athletes are compensated through scholarships (Buchanan, 2013). Other research argues that scholarship funds does not equate to cash in pocket, nor is the education student-athletes receive adequate enough to justify exploitation (Hartnett, 2013).