The Pros And Cons Of Student Athletes

College athletes are taken advantage of and deserve to be compensated for their services while playing sports. These students are exploited and used to make money and out of everything that particular school makes, the athlete never given a penny of it. All of the hard works, blood, sweat and tears that they put into that

Student athletes face a major problem that the NCAA holds them accountable. If any student athlete commits what is held as an NCAA violation they are forced to miss playing time or other consequences as well. NCAA violations have become a chronic problem in collegiate sports. When students violate the NCAA rules it can jeopardize their future career in whatever sport they are playing. Some of the rules don’t even make sense they are just useless. These rules need to be dealt with in order for the students to just be able to go along with their lives.

Many student-athletes can have their whole career, their passion, and love of their respected sport taken away from them with just 1 play. The student-athletes are representing their respective school and making the school more popular and more students will want to enroll there and the student-athletes are making the NCAA millions of dollars, but the NCAA will not give the student-athletes just a little allowance because it will “ruin the integrity of college sports”. Student athletes-athletes should get paid because students could get hurt in one play, the NCAA makes millions of dollars on the the players, and it will make the players do smarter things with their money.

Resolved: NCAA student athletes ought to be recognized as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Some believe that college athletes at the highest performing schools are better treated than others. Although they do not get paid, they do receive some benefits for being athletes that other students would not get. One advantage for playing a sport is access to scholarships that some schools reserve for their athletes. Depending on the school and the athlete’s performance, money towards tuition is often given. Only some schools are willing to grant “full-ride” scholarships for certain athletes. According to its rules, “the NCAA prohibits payments, beyond educational scholarships and specified expenses, to the athletes who are responsible for producing those revenues” (Goldman, Lee). This rule is a way to limit an athlete 's ability to

The NCAA makes it clear that the main purpose of the student-athletes is to get an education. This is true especially in the NCAA Division two philosophy where it states, “Promoting the academic success of its student-athletes, measured in part by an institution’s student-athletes graduating at least at the same rate as the institution’s student body” (Division II Philosophy Statement). It also states that coaches will be responsible for the actions of their student-athletes. I think this is something that the coaches and athletic staff at Binghamton forgot, because they were too wrapped up in becoming a Division 1 school that they their ethics and values in the

The NCAA needs to protect the overall well being of the athletes because they are the bread and butter of the school and NCAA’s income. The NCAA needs to start paying the athletes, allow the athletes to receive money from an outside source, provide a stable living environment for athletes who qualify, provide the proper nutrients the athletes need in order to excel on the field, and the NCAA needs to ban colleges from pulling the athletes scholarship after an injury. The athletes can’t get decent jobs due to their overload schedule, and the food proportion the athletes receive isn’t nearly enough for their bodies to be healthy and run properly. Many student athletes don’t come from the best backgrounds, which means financial support from the families aren’t always there. Student-Athletes attend big colleges to get an education while playing a sport they enjoy. Regular college students have the opportunity to get a job that pays decent because they have much more time on their hands, and sometimes that isn’t enough. Now imagine how hard it is for athletes who have to

While football players at the University of Illinois are working at their sport or performing their sport nearly 32 hours a week, which is all right after coming from a full class schedule. The NCAA wants to treat student athletes like regular students, when these athletes are the farthest thing from being regular students. These athletes are expected just like the rest of the student body to perform at their highest capability in the classroom, but as well at their peak athletic ability in practice or in a game right after they have spent the day draining themselves into their school

For some time, there has been much debate on the topic of paying college athletes. In courtrooms across the United States, a resolution—and a possible revolution—is beginning to gain traction. Some people believe that a scholarship is payment enough, whereas others believe the athletes are being exploited to generate millions of dollars toward the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Although student athletes and universities should agree on a term for scholarships, paying athletes additional money would undermine the value a college education.

The actions of the NCAA and their treatment of student-athletes has long been a major issue. The world of college sports is a multi-billion dollar enterprise built on the backs of its unpaid amateur “student- athletes”. The evolution of sponsorship and media rights deals are worth fortunes, for which the players receive nothing, except for their degree.

Colleges illegally pay college athletes for their services. This choice has caused uprisings in the college athletic world. Even though college athletes can't legally accept benefits, there are still people who accept them without the approval of the NCAA. These violations lead to players getting suspended from their athletics as well as getting in problems with the NCAA. These punishments also hurt the students academics as well. The NCAA president stated, "Rather than push college athletics further and further from academics, we need to bring it closer" (Emmert). The NCAA wants to connect athletics and academics and bring

While some may see this punishment as a way to keep college sports more organized and competitive. Also people may think if difference precautions were to have taken place, university’s all over the nation will follow the actions of SMU and bribe recruits to come to their university instead of allowing the recruit to have a clear vision of what they actually want. The university will not only distract the recruit from their but take the experience of actually being able to choose what school they truly want to attend by persuading and bribing the athlete. A way to solve this problem is the National Collegiate Athletic Association should give all division 1 and division 2 college athletes a monthly check with a reasonable price for the activities they are putting into their sport. Even though most division 1 and 2 athletes are receiving a college scholarship there is not enough time for college athletes during their sports season to devote their time to a job.

Again, college athletes are very important to their schools, they are the ones who rake in all the money. These athletes just cannot do it all and still keep up. College student athletes should be rewarded for their hard work and dedication with fair compensation because they are unable to hold full- time paying jobs, they have no time for extracurricular activities, and they work their hardest every day for their

Dr. Brené Brown, a writer, researcher, and educator was quoted as saying, “what separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.” By focusing in on today’s society, ethics has taken a backseat to making an extra buck. While Division One Universities are making upward from seven to nine figures in revenue each year off of their athletics department, athletes on athletic scholarships are starting to get intolerant to not receiving any incentives for playing the game they love. These athletes are becoming so disheartened by the system that they are now speaking out to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) and the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) about how they deserve to receive cash incentives for the performance and time they devote to their athletics for the University. However, why should these athletes be entitled to additional money? They should be grateful for the privileges and opportunities they receive at the University and reap the benefits that are intangible to them. Division One athletes should not be able to receive payment in order to participate in their Universities Athletic programs.

Student athletes would expect to be respected by the university. They would want to be seen as important components of the team as opposed to simply revenue markers for the university. Students were the ones who chose to sign to that school, after all.