Why Salary Caps Are Truly Unfair

In my opinion, athletes are way overpaid for their career. To begin, athletes have more money than they know what to do with. For example, Derrick Coleman, a basketball player for the nets, filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy after having taken loans from numerous sources throughout Detroit. Because pro athletes like him have so much money, they choose to use it in an amiss way. Athletes can act in a very inane manner with all the money they make each year. Next, we all love to watch athletes, but they aren't achieving or gaining anything important out of all

Do you think professional athletes are overpaid? You might think they earn more than what they are worth for playing half a year, but athletes have many things which contribute to their salary. Some of these things include their earnings from endorsements, ticket sales, performance, merchandise, their social contributions, and TV ratings. Although there are many factors that contribute to their salary, professional athletes may be overpaid because as a society, we contribute to their success. So, in the end, part of the athlete’s salary comes from the people who support the sports in the first place. These are just some of the reasons why athletes are paid so much money.

There are five major sports leagues in the United States; Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, the National Basketball Association (which has what is known as a “soft salary cap), the National Football League, and the National Hockey League. Of these five, only baseball lacks what is known as a salary cap. A salary cap is the upper limit of the combined salaries for a team’s players. In the other four sports I mentioned, having to work within the boundaries of a salary cap is a balancing act, to gain an advantage at one position requires you to be at a disadvantage at another position. For example, to have a top tier quarterback in the NFL like Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers and the large salary they command, a team might lack the funds to sign a top tier linebacker or cornerback. With Major League Baseball lacking a salary cap, this balancing act vanishes and teams could sign anyone and everyone they wished. This causes a competitive imbalance that is hurting the sport. Too often we see the same teams making the playoffs and winning championships like the San

Forbes says “If payment begins and there is no cap, the bidding war among colleges for some players will be hard to control. Are people ready for the few colleges with the financial resources (which would be ten to twenty schools) getting virtually all the best football and basket players? (Forbes) With pay to the coming to the student the want and drive to play in the NFL. There would not be any incentive to play in the professional league, when they are making good money in the college level. College is an amateur sport and should be treated that that way and not glorify the students athletes.

I feel that college and professional sports share some of the same categories, college is just on a smaller scale than professional. Some of the expenses that both college and professional sports have in common are; travel, salaries, athletic scholarships (college), and facilities just to mention a few. The coaches’ salaries, especially football and basketball head coaches, has become one of the biggest issues in the last few years. These salaries create the largest expense acquired by most athletics programs. They average from $200,000 up. There should be a limitations set by the board as to how much they are paid. Same goes for professional sports. In my opinion, some professional players are over-paid. Although they are great at what

Have you paid attention to all of the news that has been surfacing about collegiate sports lately? It is a big topic now days in the world of sports on weather college athletes should be getting paid to play sports. College athletics have gained great popularity of the past few decades, and have brought schools lots of revenue. A lot of college athletes think they should be getting paid for their services they do for their school. College sports like basketball and football generate over six billion dollars a year, but none of it goes to the athletes. Athletes should be paid for all of the time and dedication they put forth to their sport and the effort they put towards school to be eligible to play, athletes should get paid for all the money they bring to their school by playing sports, and players should also be paid for putting their bodies on the line while playing sports.

From chapter 6-3: Does Baseball Need a Salary Cap? by Neil deMause Perhaps no two words in baseball generate as much controversy and emotion as "salary cap. " Depending on whom you ask, a salary cap would either save the game, destroy the players' union, provide hope for small-market fans, pervert the free market, or create a tangle of red tape that would turn every trade deadline into a battle of wits among dueling "capologists. " Whenever owners and players have to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement -- the next tussle is scheduled for after the 2006 season -- discussion of a cap is sure to follow.

Over the past few years there has been a huge controversy to take place in the college sports world. Should athletes get paid to play in college? Is the benefit of a free education enough for college athletes? Many experts have argued both sides, in which both are valid but neither one has come up with a deciding factor on why or why not a college athlete should get paid. There is a huge amount of positive and negative outcomes that can be pulled from the situation. College Athletes should not be paid to play because it’s completely unfair to other athletic programs, it would take away the passion and intensity of the sport, and they receive enough compensation as it is.

Why are salary caps good? Salary caps are an agreement that puts a limit on how much you can spend on one Athlete and how much they can earn. It’s not about the game it’s about how many people they can get in the stage for that certain Athlete or Team. The more people that go to the game the more money there will be involved. There a limit to how much an athlete pay gets

The debate on if Major League Baseball should implement a salary cap is becoming a popular argument throughout the professional world of sports. I personally think that there should not be a salary cap for baseball. A salary cap is an agreement within a sports league that puts a controlled limit on the salary of each player. If the MLB had a salary cap, there would be no way for teams to be able to compete against each other. Throughout time, baseball has been viewed by society as America’s pastime. This is one of the strongest supporting claims on why Major league baseball should not implement a salary cap. There have been eight incidents when the MLB tried to enforce the salary cap causing multiple organizations to go on strike so the salary

Many players would be very angry if there was salary caps and they would get the same pay as even just decent players or players who sit the bench and barely get any playing time at all. A salary cap would also be unfair to because if players don’t like the caps then they might quite the league. If they quit their league many fans would top coming to games and when that happens stadiums and arenas start losing money, which would be bad for all the sports fans and sports organizations whatever the sport is. A Eagles fan from Philadelphia said “If they start With these salary caps and players quit on the Eagles I will simply stop coming to the games.” Clearly Some fans really do worry about losing players because of salary

In today’s society many will argue whether or not professional athletes are overpaid. In the present time athletes are being paid phenomenally large amounts of money for their entertainment. It is my claim that all professional athletes are overpaid because they do not offer society an essential function that improves or enhances our world in comparison to other professionals such as medical doctors, lawyers, and teachers. Society does not value entertainment enough to warrant such high salaries such as those of many professional athletes. There is no reason that these athletes should demand these tremendous amounts of money. This is why you have to put into question their reasoning for demanding

If I could pay someone $25 million a year to get him/her on my team and generate $30 million, why not hire that player? The salary cap for the NFL is $102.5 million per team, and we currently have 32 teams, so we the public are paying 3.28 billion to those teams. Currently America is in a 11 trillion dollar debt, if athletes could get paid $150,000/year then we could save 1 billion dollars a year. The monetary worth of athletes exceeds the value that any one individual is actually worth. League officials should be using salary caps, negotiations, and legal tactics. Athletes' salaries are in increasing problem for the economy of our modern world. Although the sports have their own equal distributions, the overwhelming salaries of the leagues' highest paid players have made the average of salaries higher and higher each year.

(Underwood, 2009) Let us take a look at some of the current athletes in the respective major sports and go into depth of the premium paydays in the NBA, NFL, and MLB. “The three names will focus on will be Kobe Bryant (61.9), Drew Brees (51m), and Alex Rodriquez (30.3m)”.(Badenhausen, 2013) Kobe Bryant recently signed a two-year contract with the NBA franchise LA Lakers which for the third straight year will make him the league’s highest paid salary athlete at 30 million a year for the next two years, with the next player making 7 million dollars less than him, which is the most popular league player in LeBron James. Quarterback Drew Brees with his multi-year extension deal with the Saints makes him the NFL’s high man just edging his counterpart quarterback Aaron Rodgers by just a half million dollars in perspective. These leagues consist of salary capped multi-year player option and team-option contracts unlike the MLB. The MLB is different in many ways as they able to offer multi-year contracts and no salary cap in which the 10 year contract of Alex Rodriquez worth 30 million dollars per year has him tops in the league. This factor puts into perspective the difference in how the professions pay charts differ from no salary cap in the MLB to guaranteed money caps for the NBA and NFL alike. To understand the impact of such contracts, we focus on the collegiate athlete.

The passages present a discussion about arguments concerning whether or not professional athletes are overpaid. This is an important debate since professional sports represents a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry. The two positions argue whether or not professional athletes should be paid the large yearly salaries they are paid. Both viewpoints have valid claims warranting consideration. For example, evidence suggests that people with far more important jobs are paid much less than professional athletes; in contrast, opposing evidence suggests that since professional athletes generally have short careers and must train very hard to build and maintain their skills, the higher salary is justified. While both sides of the issue have valid points, the viewpoint that professional athletes are not overpaid is the best-supported position, the position supported by the preponderance of the evidence cited in the passages. The strongest and best reasons supporting this position are that professional athletes must endure grueling and intensive training, they generally have short careers that often end in injury, and the amount that they are thought to be paid is often inflated. Accordingly, these reasons and opposing viewpoints will be discussed next.