Summary: Should College Athletes Be Paid
Should college athletes be paid?
Maribel Kultti
October 30, 2014
There have been major discussions recently if college athletes should or shouldn’t be paid while they are in school. Once you get a sport involved, there are politics, injuries, and a call to the office to tell the player, “thanks, but we don’t need you on this team anymore.” Many players will get a scholarship for a year or two, and then transfer to a different school which returns out to be a better situation. A $25,000 scholarship may seem like a lot of money, but it really only covers the basics, such as books, tuition, university fees, housing and a meal. The point of this is that a scholarship doesn’t equal cash in a player’s pocket.
Who else makes money off these near-professional level athletes? First their own coaches, many coaches earn at least $100 thousand a year, to coach one of the major sorts. Theses coaches will receive bonuses for getting the payoffs, championships and others, the athletes what they receive? Nothing. Second the NCAA, and the third, the athletic programs. Universities bring in hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to their athletic programs each year. …show more content…
The flipside of this is that not all sports teams are profitable.
For example, some less popular teams like swimming, tennis, or volleyball don’t earn the universities much money, and the bigger sports like basketball and football make up for the lost revenue. So why would pay the athletes if entire teams are struggling to survive?
There are many reasons why NCAA athletes should be treated like traditional employees. Here are some of
them:
The typical division I college football player devotes 43.3 hours per week to his sport – 3.3 more hours than the typical American work week.
Although the NCAA claims college athletes are just students, the NCAA’s own tournament schedules require college athletes to miss classes for nationally televised games that bring in revenue.
The annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament affects more than six days of classes (truly “madness” if the players aren’t “employees”).
At some schools, the road to the NCAA men’s basketball championship may require student-athletes to miss up a quarter of all days during their spring semester.
At other school, college coaches regulate student0athletes speech on face book and twitter – even when their sport is not in season.
Much of the huge revenues collected from college athletic do not go directly back into the classroom.
I don’t believe students should pay to go to school even you are not participating on any curricular activities at any universities. Schools should be a 100 % free to everyone having the opportunity to apply and get accepted into any school. Going to schools is necessary to advance our self in life. Educations are your ticket and will ensure to get a higher pay coming. If students are paid to go to schools, there would be absolutely no way to support the institute, since the majority of universities rely on student tuition, they would not be able to survive in such an atmosphere. Not being able to afford educators into different industries. Never know when they could be cheating off someone’s paper
If students get paid the will focus on getting money for good grades and won’t pay attentions or focus on school. Students should not be paid to attend school because it would be cause a big conflict that would include teacher, parents, school board and the government. There are so many reasons why students shouldn’t get paid to attend school. More people would go to school of the costs weren’t so high, and not necessary even getting paid to go to school, but not having to spend so much so that they can save for other things in life.
Since there are variety of opinions concerning the athletes’ payment, more reasonable decisions should be implemented in the near future which help in enabling the college athletes as well as other students to come up with the right decisions concerning their future in a free way, not being limited any restriction. Whatever the decision is, it should especially consider rights and need of the college athlete as well as the available opportunities in their future life.
References:
Retention Book – How college Affects by Ernest T. Pascarella & Patrick T. Terenzini. Topics include: career development (page 477-478), Cognitive Skills (page 151-152), and Educational Attainment (page 393) for athletic students.
(2012, 4). College Athletes: why they should not be paid
Researchomatic. Retrieved 4, 2012, from http://www.researchomatic.com
Maribel Kultti
October 30, 2014
There have been major discussions recently if college athletes should or shouldn’t be paid while they are in school. Once you get a sport involved, there are politics, injuries, and a call to the office to tell the player, “thanks, but we don’t need you on this team anymore.” Many players will get a scholarship for a year or two, and then transfer to a different school which returns out to be a better situation. A $25,000 scholarship may seem like a lot of money, but it really only covers the basics, such as books, tuition, university fees, housing and a meal. The point of this is that a scholarship doesn’t equal cash in a player’s pocket.
Who else makes money off these near-professional level athletes? First their own coaches, many coaches earn at least $100 thousand a year, to coach one of the major sorts. Theses coaches will receive bonuses for getting the payoffs, championships and others, the athletes what they receive? Nothing. Second the NCAA, and the third, the athletic programs. Universities bring in hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to their athletic programs each year. …show more content…
The flipside of this is that not all sports teams are profitable.
For example, some less popular teams like swimming, tennis, or volleyball don’t earn the universities much money, and the bigger sports like basketball and football make up for the lost revenue. So why would pay the athletes if entire teams are struggling to survive?
There are many reasons why NCAA athletes should be treated like traditional employees. Here are some of
them:
The typical division I college football player devotes 43.3 hours per week to his sport – 3.3 more hours than the typical American work week.
Although the NCAA claims college athletes are just students, the NCAA’s own tournament schedules require college athletes to miss classes for nationally televised games that bring in revenue.
The annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament affects more than six days of classes (truly “madness” if the players aren’t “employees”).
At some schools, the road to the NCAA men’s basketball championship may require student-athletes to miss up a quarter of all days during their spring semester.
At other school, college coaches regulate student0athletes speech on face book and twitter – even when their sport is not in season.
Much of the huge revenues collected from college athletic do not go directly back into the classroom.
I don’t believe students should pay to go to school even you are not participating on any curricular activities at any universities. Schools should be a 100 % free to everyone having the opportunity to apply and get accepted into any school. Going to schools is necessary to advance our self in life. Educations are your ticket and will ensure to get a higher pay coming. If students are paid to go to schools, there would be absolutely no way to support the institute, since the majority of universities rely on student tuition, they would not be able to survive in such an atmosphere. Not being able to afford educators into different industries. Never know when they could be cheating off someone’s paper
If students get paid the will focus on getting money for good grades and won’t pay attentions or focus on school. Students should not be paid to attend school because it would be cause a big conflict that would include teacher, parents, school board and the government. There are so many reasons why students shouldn’t get paid to attend school. More people would go to school of the costs weren’t so high, and not necessary even getting paid to go to school, but not having to spend so much so that they can save for other things in life.
Since there are variety of opinions concerning the athletes’ payment, more reasonable decisions should be implemented in the near future which help in enabling the college athletes as well as other students to come up with the right decisions concerning their future in a free way, not being limited any restriction. Whatever the decision is, it should especially consider rights and need of the college athlete as well as the available opportunities in their future life.
References:
Retention Book – How college Affects by Ernest T. Pascarella & Patrick T. Terenzini. Topics include: career development (page 477-478), Cognitive Skills (page 151-152), and Educational Attainment (page 393) for athletic students.
(2012, 4). College Athletes: why they should not be paid
Researchomatic. Retrieved 4, 2012, from http://www.researchomatic.com