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Intercollegiate athletics are no longer just a sport, it has turned into a big business. The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) currently has an operating budget of approximately $530 million in unrestricted assets. The NCAA had generated a total revenue of nearly $1 billion during its 2014 fiscal year from member schools. With all those facts about the revenue that NCAA is generating, the situation of student athletes getting paid rises up. Student athletes who are on a full scholarship

always enjoyed partaking and watching athletic events. People would travel from all over the globe to see some of these sporting events. The same holds true today, with people from all over the world travelling to play and watch both amateur and professional sports. Amateur competition is viewed as one of the ground rules of college sports. It’s what separates the college men and women from the professional men and women. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) defines amateurism of its athletes

Turner Broadcasting gain more than $1 billion all in favor of a $700,000 ad rate for a 30 second commercial placement. Not all the revenue is for the school to keep, it is shared along NCAA executives, such athletic directors and coaches. According to reports from USA Today, NCAA association president,Mark Emmert was credited with a salary of $1.7 million in the year 2011. All coming from an organization that forbids athletes with impressive talent to gain from their unique talent, yet he marvelously

College sports have been growing in popularity over the last few decades. Every year, schools receive millions of dollars through intercollegiate athletics. The NCAA athletes provide entertainment not only to the schools that they attend, but also to millions of spectators around the world. The athletes are the ones who have worked so hard to acquire the revenue that colleges receive. Without them, none of this money would exist, so why shouldn’t they be paid? With so much money coming in, the athletes

Every year millions of people wait and wait for march to come around just for college basketball. Trying to make the perfect bracket to win some money against their friends, and of course the right to gloat about having a bracket. During march you can’t watch one television show without seeing a commercial with a college basketball player on it. Everyone playing as well as everyone watching is filled with excitement and anticipation to see who will be crowned the next national champion. College athletes

For some time now, the issue of whether college athletes are employees or not has been recurring in college athletics. It has specifically begun at Northwestern University, where Division I football players demanded to be recognized as university employees. They claimed that because of the overload of hours they devote to football and the fact that they receive athletic-based scholarships; they should be recognized as employees. They also pointed out that they are primarily athletes, not students

rectify safety issues involving college sports, primarily football. However, since its creation the NCAA has developed to become the largest amateur athletic organization in the United States. Surely this rapid growth of the NCAA was unprecedented, and now they find themselves responsible for merely everything when it comes to dealing with college athletics. Safety used to be the main concern of the NCAA, and now it seems revenue distribution takes precedent in today’s NCAA. Also by being the main shareholders

athletes spend numerous hours every week playing games during their season and working to strengthen their athletic abilities. With long hours of practice, exercising, and games, it can make managing school work and their sport difficult to handle. According to Rodney K. Smith, author of “A Brief History of the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's Role in Regulating Intercollegiate Athletics” in the Marquette Sports Law Review, “In 1905 alone, there were over eighteen deaths and one hundred major

NFL, NBA, and MLB. Many writers such as Joe Nocera, a sports business columnist for the New York Times, talks about how “The NCAA and college sports establishment exploit the players who generate the billions that the grown-ups pocket.” College Athletics’ is the school’s number one money

Along with college football, college basketball, particularly division I basketball, is one of the main sports that many people enjoy watching. During the month of March division I basketball has a huge men’s tournament called March Madness. March Madness brought in $701 million this past season (Hruby 1). Where does all of that money go if the athletes do not receive any of it? That is an enormous amount of revenue that division I basketball players alone brought in just for one year. Should division