The Success Of College Sports

College sports are a phenomenon that keeps viewers coming back for more. Stated in an article on Money Nation the NCAA makes an estimated $1 billion per year and this number is still growing. What really is insane is that all that money is made off of college athletes, who don’t get a penny from that total number. The debate on whether or not college athletes should be paid has been around for decades and probably will still be here for years to come. Paying college athletes would make the teams unfair, change how hard players will work to get better, affect the amateurism of college sports, and lastly influence the athlete's willingness to participate in college sports.

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

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 NCAA states that the student athletes are paid in the form of an education, but this is not always true. There have been many instances in which student-athletes have graduated with grade school reading levels or never graduated because they were not directed to pursue any specific degree path (Marquette sports law journal). The emphases of winning in collegiate sports use to be for moral. College sports now are a very lucrative business and a lot of it comes from being on television and through sponsorship. Nike is going to endorse the teams that win over the teams that lose. College athletics has been estimated to be a $60 billion industry (McCormick). Universities are all too willing to try and get a piece of this huge industry.

The NCAA has $11 billion just from March Madness for 13 years. There are plenty of other sports where the NCAA has been payed millions to billions of dollars and they just keep that money to themselves. The players are the ones who get them the money,but the NCAA says that the players don’t deserve the money to play. The money is a huge part in why they put so much effort into their work, because if they knew they would never get payed then most of the players would stop playing. Most players want to support their families once they get enough money, so they work hard to try to go pro., but Iif they got payed in college then the players would need to work just as hard if not harder, which makes the games more exciting to watch and to

One of the most controversial subjects we as individuals hear about this day in age is whether or not college athletes deserve to be paid. Many people argue that these athletes do intact, deserve to be paid for their time and hard work. NCAA athletes create a name for themselves by playing and performing well on their college teams. The better these athletes perform, the more publicity the school revives. This then leads to higher ticket sales and stores around campus selling jerseys and other clothing items with athletes names and numbers on the back. NCAA schools have become comfortable with using athletes’ names to bring in a revenue for the school, and yet the athletes never see any of that money. On the other hand, many people believe that these athletes do not deserve, nor should they expect to receive payment in return. They believe that these scholarships and the education are payment in itself. Some even bring up the question on if it is affordable or even realistic to pay college athletes.

Overall the NCAA is the hub for all collegiate sports and allows many students to get a free education. Some might say that athletes should be paid because they bring in tons of money, paying athletes would bring them some sense of financial awareness and because they often don't have enough money for necessities. But they don't deserve to get paid because scholarships are payment enough, because many college kids are irresponsible with money, and the NCAA makes sure the players' have what they need. Many people think that college athletes should be paid, but they shouldn't.

In the sports world you hear the question, should college athletes really get paid? If you read the articles by sports writers, for ESPN and Fox Sports, you hear both sides of the story. One person at ESPN, Michael Wilbon, believes that college athletes deserve to get paid, and here is his reason why “We’re talking $11 billion for three weekends of television per year. On top of that there’s a four-year contract with ESPN that pays the BCS* $500 million, and combined that’s $10 billion, would the games not be televised?” “As Jon Solomon, from CBS Sports pointed out, the NCAA* went to court to settle the debate, should college athletes, in football and basketball, get paid for their image, names and likeliness?”.

As of today, there are over 460,000 NCAA student-athletes that compete in 24 different sports while in college throughout the United States (NCAA). Over the past couple decades, the argument for paying these college athletes has gained steam and is a hot topic in the sports community. However, paying these college athletes is not feasible because most universities do not generate enough revenue to provide them with a salary and some even lose money from the sports programs. These collegiate student-athletes are amateurs and paying them would ruin the meaning of college athletics. Also, playing college sports is a choice and a privilege with no mention or guarantee of a salary besides a full-ride scholarship. Although some argue that

Majority of these profits that are generated from student athletes playing on the field stem from ticket sales, donations, TV contracts, and royalties from licensing and merchandise. Joe Nocera from New York Times Magazine articulated this point very well when he said “It’s important to remember that billions of dollars are being generated by the players and coaches are making 4-5 million dollars a pop. The reason they have fancy stadiums, the reason they have 10 assistant coaches, the reason they have all of this, is because of the labor of the 19 year old kids on the field.” The NCAA is a tax exempt nonprofit organization with no shareholders that is thriving and making millions of dollars off of the backs of students who sometimes don’t have any money to feed themselves. Refusing to pay athletes all for the sake of their definition of amateurism. Claiming that athletes should play for the love of the game and not the money. Jay Bilas, a college basketball analyst, made an excellent point in the movie “Schooled: The Price of College Sports” when he made a comparison of a student who wasn’t an athlete making a salary compared to a student athlete getting paid. He said “My nephew is the student body president at the University of Kentucky. As student body president, he is provided with certain benefits that if he were an athlete, it would be considered to be a

As a nonprofit the NCAA is often not compared to large companies even it makes comparable revenue. All television and video game revenue, as well as ticket, jersey, and souvenir sales made from college athletics all go to the NCAA, the conferences, the athletic departments, and the coaches. In fact, one study suggests, “Men’s basketball and football combine for $6 billion alone” (Mondello, Piquero, Piquero, Gertz & Bratton, 2013). None of that revenue goes directly to the student athlete even though the NCAA surely has enough money to do so if it chooses. USA Today writer Bruce Horovitz states in his article, March Madness Evokes Marketer Madness that, “The NCAA men’s basketball tournament generated $1.15 billion in television ads in 2013, well beyond the revenue generated by the NFL and NBA playoffs, according to ESPN” (Horovitz, 2014). Marc Edelman, a professor at City University of New York takes it a bit farther in his article The Case for Paying College Athletes, and claims, “The college sports industry generates $11 billion in annual revenues. Fifty colleges report annual revenues that exceed $50 million. Meanwhile, five colleges report annual revenues that exceed $100 million” (Edelman, 2014). In contrast, during the 2014-2015 season the NBA grossed about $5.18 billion in revenues according to Forbes Magazine, which was a league record high. The NCAA revenue money is also not evenly distributed among the schools, as top tiered athletic programs tend to make more money

In the world college basketball, most basketball players come and go. Moreover, these athletes remain in a conundrum. For those unaware, professional sports remains as volatile as a high-risk investment. This remains attributed to the uncertainty pertaining to professional players. With that being said, numerous players get injured and lose their dreams of playing the sport professionally. In spite of all of these risks, several college basketball teams continue to produce desirable talent. Moreover, these athletes would cease to exist without the assistance of a coach. To expound further, college basketball coaches play an integral role in defining an athlete's strength and using these strengths to their advantage. Furthermore, college basketball

College athletics have become one of America’s most lucrative businesses grossing billions of dollars off of student-athletes and competing against the entertainment giants, however, this has not always been the case. In a way, the student-athlete has become our culture’s holy man as he or she is admired for their immense feats of athleticism and skill on the gridiron or the court. To understand the miraculous story of the change of the student-athlete, an individual must first look at the origin of the term student-athlete. In the 1950s, Ray Dennison died from a blunt force cerebral trauma received while playing football in Colorado for the Fort Lewis A&M Aggies. Therefore, the Dennison family filed for worker’s compensation death

College athletes are not being paid for their labor, which schools profit from. “The NCAA (National College Athletics Association) earns about $4 billion in licensing fees each year. In 2010, the NCAA signed a 14-year, $10.8 billion contract with CBS and Turner Sports to have exclusive rights to show the men’s college basketball tournament, which takes place every year” (Miller). Student-athletes are being exploited by the NCAA and there’s nothing they can do about it. Exploitation happens when student-athletes, who are making large amounts of money for their schools, often are not receiving any kind of admissible, quality education. Another form a student-athlete is exploited, the value of

Because the NCAA does organize the oversee all college athletics they do deserve the profits but not paying these athletes is like a business priding itself on its cleanliness and then not paying the janitors. "We're talking $11 billion for three weekends of television per year. On top of that, there's a new four-year deal with ESPN that pays the BCS $500 million. so, if those two deals were worth, say, a combined $10 billion instead of $11.3 billion, would the games not be televised? Would the quality of the broadcasts or coverage or the staging of the events be somehow diminished? What if people in the business of money took $1.3 billion off the top, invested it, sheltered it and made it available to provide a stipend to college athletes, how could anybody stand on principal and argue against paying the people who make the events possible in the first place?"(Wilbon). Wilbon is talking about March madness the biggest tournament in college basketball and how lucrative the television contracts are, he then states a possible plan of action to offer some of this money as a stipend to the athletes. The fact that the NCAA makes over a billion dollars in contracts for organizing an event is ridiculous. Nobody watches college basketball to see people in an office building schedule where the game will take place and at