Paying college athletes
English 100
9 December 2013
Paying College Athletes
Are college athletes in need of extra income or can they live comfortably with just a scholarship? Many articles assert the contrary that college athletes do need extra cash outside of a scholarship, Steve Berkowitz of USA today assert” NCAA President Mark Emmert was credited with nearly $1.7 million in compensation during the 2011 calendar year, according to the association's new federal tax return” this suggest that athletes should also be rewarded with money for playing at elite colleges because they are responsible for the money the games make because of their athletic capabilities. Another reason why college athletes deserve money for participating in college sports is because they don’t have time for a job as non-student athletes. Most definitively athletes in college do merit an income because they have needs like paying for their personal car insurance if any or phone bill and without a source of income they struggle to make ends meet. A scholarship is only capable of paying for books not all your bills. Many argue that college athletes should not be paid because they are attending college with a scholarship and that alone should be enough for not asking for a regular income. Bill Cotterell a Tallahassee democrat suggest “its time to pay college athletes,” because college athletes should be paid what they are worth. Several newspaper articles suggest college athletes should be paid more specifically male athletes like football and basketball players since these two sports generate the most revenue unlike soccer and baseball. However, there is a problem for just paying high dividends to male athletes and although female athletes would get paid they would never accumulate as much as their male counterpart. One staff writer with The New York Times wrote about his idea of paying college athletes in his publication How about pay and a degree for college Athlete? Where he contributes to the idea
9 December 2013
Paying College Athletes
Are college athletes in need of extra income or can they live comfortably with just a scholarship? Many articles assert the contrary that college athletes do need extra cash outside of a scholarship, Steve Berkowitz of USA today assert” NCAA President Mark Emmert was credited with nearly $1.7 million in compensation during the 2011 calendar year, according to the association's new federal tax return” this suggest that athletes should also be rewarded with money for playing at elite colleges because they are responsible for the money the games make because of their athletic capabilities. Another reason why college athletes deserve money for participating in college sports is because they don’t have time for a job as non-student athletes. Most definitively athletes in college do merit an income because they have needs like paying for their personal car insurance if any or phone bill and without a source of income they struggle to make ends meet. A scholarship is only capable of paying for books not all your bills. Many argue that college athletes should not be paid because they are attending college with a scholarship and that alone should be enough for not asking for a regular income. Bill Cotterell a Tallahassee democrat suggest “its time to pay college athletes,” because college athletes should be paid what they are worth. Several newspaper articles suggest college athletes should be paid more specifically male athletes like football and basketball players since these two sports generate the most revenue unlike soccer and baseball. However, there is a problem for just paying high dividends to male athletes and although female athletes would get paid they would never accumulate as much as their male counterpart. One staff writer with The New York Times wrote about his idea of paying college athletes in his publication How about pay and a degree for college Athlete? Where he contributes to the idea