The Role Of Paid In College Sports

College athletes should be paid monetarily as well as with scholarships. Colleges are benefiting of big time players by selling their jerseys without their names on it to avoid paying the athletes but the NCAA looked silly “when Jay Bilas, a veteran ESPN analyst, former Duke basketball player and vocal critic of the NCAA, took to Twitter to point out that although schools cannot sell a player's jersey with his name on the back, if you typed Manziel into a search box on ShopNCAASports.com a No. 2 Texas A&M jersey pops up, available for up to $64.95. (Manziel wears No. 2.) (Davis).”Since college athletes can not get sponsorships their name can’t be on the jerseys that are sold to the fans even though you could still find their jersey by looking

Just about everyone would assume that colleges would pay their athletes, but unfortunately that's not the case. In fact colleges are ripping off their student athletes. Athletes that are still in college are risking their bodies, just like players that made it professional and though nothing is really done to compensate them for that. Also almost all colleges rank in their money through sports sales, and the players get none of it even though they are the reason the money comes in. And most athletes have a crammed schedule, most of that is due to the sports too.

One of the most important choices a person if given throughout their life is the choice of what college to go to and what to study. Few people are gifted with athletic talents that allow them to receive an athletic scholarship to pay for their college expenses. When it comes to the issue of whether a college athlete should be paid one can see that the players are being cheated out but the NCAA. The NCAA could very easily incorporate a system in which the athletes could earn a salary while playing their sport which earns their school money.

In Joe Nocera’s article, “Let’s Start Paying College Athletes”, he argues that college athletes should be paid for playing sports. Nocera begins his article by providing an example of how some athletes will receive money that is perfectly fine while other athletes cannot accept any money or else that player will be in violation of NCAA rules. It’s evident that there are large amounts of money involved in the college sports. Top college coaches can make as much or more than professional coaches. Together with men’s basketball, College football have become huge commercial enterprises generating huge amounts of annual revenue (Nocera, 2011).

According to Matthew Green’s article, “Should College Athletes Get Paid”, Green illustrates how the NCAA rakes in more than 1 billion dollars a year just off of ad revenue alone. Not to mention the more than 1 billion dollars the NCAA also generates just off of the March Madness basketball tournament. Now one would think, if the NCAA is making so much money, shouldn’t the NCAA share that wealth with the players who make it such a reputable and rich organization? However, the NCAA gives absolutely nothing to the athletes who bring

“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

But something doesn't add up here. None of this money is possible without the athletes playing. So why do the overpaid coaches, the overpaid administrators, and the overpaid people that work for the NCAA get the money instead of the athletes playing in the game? So much money is being passed around and nothing goes to the

When it comes to college athletics, there always will be a problem that arises. It is one of the most controversial topics there is. One of the main issues within athletics is the idea of whether to pay college athletes or not. Several studies have been done along with articles from various sources. This has been on the rise especially since “March Madness” is coming up. “March Madness” may only consist of three weekends, however, an 11 billion dollar deal is made to televise the games (Wilbon). This is when you have to take the time to sit back and contemplate whether these college athletes really are getting the fair end of the stick. Under NCAA laws it is forbidden to pay these athletes for their performance yet at the same time they

Capitalism, a system dealing with both political and economical aspects in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by an individual for profit, rather than by the state. One of the largest “money-making” industries in the nation is known as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) (Gregory). College sports have become more popular than ever before, especially with the help of television and modern technology. Making over $700 million a year, this industry has been introduced numerous times over the years to the debate of prohibiting payments to athletes other than athletic scholarships (Goldman). Currently, in order to meet the demand of sports, especially at a Division I University, high school athletes are recruited, and make a decision to play for their team of choice, while giving the schools national exposure. However, many consumers are wondering if athletes in college sports are being properly compensated for the money they bring into the university, for the show they put on for the general public (Johnson).

College athletes now-a-days are getting paid to play like its a job. Although, do they deserve the pay they get or even the pay at all. College athletes do not deserve to be paid because the point of college is to get an education, not a “camp” before the pros.

Do you often go to college football or basketball games? In his article “NCAA Schools Can Absolutely Afford To Pay College Athletes, Economists Say” Strachan believes that colleges should pay their athletes because they deserve to be paid. Strachan believes this because as economists say most if not all institutions can afford it, “But when it comes to whether the NCAA…. can afford it, the answer appears to be… yes”(par 27). According to Strachan, “They’re nonprofits, and their incentive is to spend every cent that comes in”(par 9), if they have extra money they should just give it to the players, for bringing the college even more publicity and money. In Strachan’s view, it “shouldn’t be surprising”(par 27) that we have enough money to pay

Let me ask you all a question. Who in here likes money? Exactly, everyone likes to have a little bit of extra money in their wallet or bank account. Now imagine being a college athlete on a scholarship. Your parents aren't very financially stable and don’t have enough money to give you every week for food or winter clothes. You then have classes from 10am-3pm, weights from 4pm-5pm and practice right after that until 8pm. After practice when you get back to your dorm you remember that you have homework to finish and are hungry but the cafeteria is closed. You don’t have enough money to spare for fast food and go to bed hungry. If the NCAA paid you for playing you would never go to bed hungry.

Paying college athletes can have a lot of positive effects, it can teach these young athletes how to handle money, it gives them some form of income especially if some of the athletes do not have job, during the football/ basketball season etc. And they can kind of see what it will be like in the pros as far as being paid to play, I’m not saying pay them like the pros like $5,000 a game but I’m saying like pay them $100 a game, just something, and a lot of people will say isn’t a scholarship enough, well sometimes it’s not. Most athletic scholarships only cover a portion of the cost and you are supposed to cover the rest on your own. And if you don’t have a job during the season or your barley are able to work, it can be hard for athletes to make ends meet obviously. Like in the case of this basketball player Shabazz Napier stated, "I don't feel student-athletes should get hundreds of thousands of dollars, but like I said, there are hungry nights that I go to bed and I'm starving,". I mean there are players that are really struggling just to be able to eat, and colleges want these same athletes to be at their very best at all times, but how can they, when they cannot even meet their own nutritional needs.

It is often not talked about how professional athletes struggle after they call it quits on their career due to their lack of knowledge. A lot of players end up bankrupt, poor, or live a mediocre lifestyle after previously making hundreds of thousandths of dollar. They were unable to pursue a job after their career because they had no degree, no source of any intellect because they were only concerned about their athletic ability and decided to leave school after one to two years to pursue a career that could potentially ruin them for the rest of their life. NCAA should look into this matter one day and the committee should come together to establish a new rule that forces collegiate student athletes to graduate and earn their degree so they can have a life after their professional career. This new rule could potentially ensure that retired athletes could have a future after sports and could start protecting themselves from serious injuries at an earlier age. If you look at a few current and newly retired players you can easily tell how well or poor they are going to do in their lives after sports.

Imagine a business that was bringing in millions of dollars every year in revenue solely off the employees, and the individuals who are working to bring in the money, do not see a cent of it. This is essentially how college athletes feel at their respective universities. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is seeing $11 billion dollars in revenue come through their doors annually, and not one penny goes back to the student athletes who, in reality, create that money. The money is passed down through the executives, directors and coaches, but none is given to the players. With putting in an average to 43 hours per week, which is more than the average work week, student athletes can be compared to