National Collegiate Athletic Association

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

NCAA-sanctioned athletic programs. Without the experience and athletic performance the student athlete brings, most colleges would not reap the benefit of these significant revenue-generating activities. At best, current NCAA regulations need to be revisited to ensure all avenues are addressed to enable the success of athletic students both in the classroom and on the field or court of play. As stated previously, even though students receive full and partial scholarships determined by their athletic performance

The biggest question in collegiate sports right now is should players get paid to play? Some argue it would destroy the amateurism in collegiate sports. If they are paid then they should be considered professionals. Others say it would help the students be able to support themselves while they are in college. They are getting a free education from a top university isn’t that enough? No and that’s why I say yes and that collegiate athletes should get paid to play sports because money is being made

Should student athletes get compensated for playing sports at the collegiate level? Or is the funding the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) provides through programs that directly support the educational, financial, and health and safety needs of student athletes enough? Peter Ohr of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently stated, “Northwestern University Football players often work many more hours than the players spend on their studies, effectively making them athletes

the universities pulling in more than twelve billion dollars, the rate of growth for college athletics surpasses companies like McDonalds and Chevron (Finkel, 2013). The athletes claim they are making all the money, but do not see a dime of this revenue. The age-old notion that the collegiate athletes are amateurs and students, binds them into not being paid by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). This pay for play discussion has been talked about since the early 1900s but recently

about the unionization of collegiate sports. College athletes believe that they deserve more than just scholarships to compensate their contribution. College athletes are voicing that they should be able to form a union, and thus be paid for their athletic contributions to universities and to the NCAA. However, before one can decide whether or not unionizing collegiate sports is the right or wrong approach to solving such issues, we must first review the history of collegiate sport regulation organization

fall 2014 and this year’s NCAA collegiate sports season has taken off like a full court press. Dedicated fans of collegiate football and basketball will crowd into stadiums or huddle around their TV to proclaim their allegiance to a school of their choice. Regardless of their declarations, many fans and spectators will be pleased by the seasons end when only a handful of schools are declared the winners and able to clutch one of the prestigious and limited collegiate championship titles. Easily one

The popularity of college athletics have risen immensely over the past few years. The idea of paying college football athletes has been a continuous debate since the early 1900’s. This paper will debate whether college athletes should be paid a monetary compensation outside of their scholarships. This will be done by examining reasons for and against the monetary revenue for the athletes. Whether the sport is basketball, baseball, volleyball, football or swimming, college athletes bring in an

The world of collegiate athletics was founded upon the ideals of commercialism and is filled with talented athletes that contain tremendous amounts of potential. Unfortunately, in order to bring in revenue that serves as crucial funding for their universities nationwide, the NCAA exploits the talent of these players and justifies this action by assuming the disguise of “amateurism” while also managing to adopt an indistinct version of professionalism. Instead, the NCAA spends portions of its revenue

Investigating the role of intercollegiate athletics in higher education first requires a short review of the history of intercollegiate athletics. There has been sufficient amount of documentation on the history of intercollegiate athletics and the NCAA. In 1852 student-organized rowing crews from Harvard and Yale participated in the first recorded intercollegiate competition (Hums & MacLean, 2013). The researchers noted that at the inception of intercollegiate athletic competition, student organizations