Schooled is a documentary about if D1 college athletes should be paid even if they have a full ride scholarship. I think that if athletes can’t buy or afford things outside of school that they should be provided with money to do so. If these colleges are earning revenue off of these athletes, but the athletes themselves are seeing none of it. Not being able to do things outside of a sport like get a job is harder on kids who don’t have a full ride because they also have to pay for part of their tuition and not being able to get a job doesn’t help them at all.…
Student athletes already receive benefits for playing college sports including an education, housing, meals, transportation, and other essentials. This gives them a bonus compared to traditional students of the college. If student athletes start getting paid, there would be no fair way to pay them and it would ruin the college sports industry. Student-athletes should do what previous players have done, which is to play their sport for the love of the game. For those reasons, Student athletes should remain…
College athletes bring schools income due to their abilities, should they get compensated or have they already been? College athletes are taken advantage of by not getting compensated for their performance and likeness. Athletes are given free tuition to get a college education and are provided opportunities. Shouldn’t these opportunities count as benefits for the students? They should use these benefits to better themselves and take advantage of their abilities? Student Athletes shouldn’t be paid for their likeness..…
Finally, the argument that college athletes are a large source of revenue for their colleges and their programs, but do not receive any compensation in return. According to Maxwell Strachan, senior editor focused on entertainment and sports for the Huffington Post, stated, “NCAA pulled in $989 million in its 2014 fiscal year, according to an audited financial statement cited by USA Today” (Stratchen). The NCAA informed the media that ninety-two percent of their revenue came from championships sponsors, ticket sales, and merchandise. These college athletes are the bases to all of those successes, but still never receive any of this revenue. When traveling for big tournaments the NCAA, pays for their rooms, food, and transportation, this is just…
People like Joe Narcea say that college athletes should be paid. Nocera states that “without that athletic ability, many of them wouldn’t have been admitted,”(Nocera 22). College athletes are multi-billion dollar businesses. The players are bringing in millions of dollars to the universities and they aren’t getting enough recognition. While other students can go get jobs and earn money, college…
College athletes should get paid for what they do. College athletes aren’t allowed to have a job while in college. And not all college athletes get free education and those are the ones struggling to make it. College athletes bring in a lot of money so they should get some of the money.…
A customer walks into the local Pizza Hut, and sits down. A waiter approaches and asks what kind of pizza they want. The customer gives his order to him, and lays 200 dollars under the menu. The waiter notices, and takes the money. The customer’s pizza is 10 dollars, and he pays for it by a debit card. When he leaves, he puts 300 dollars under his own plate. The waiter grabs the money, places the money in his pocket, and goes back to working.…
Whether college athletes should get paid to play college sports is still to be determined. Some people say that college athletes should get paid because everybody else such as the coaches, the NCAA, and the college are all getting paid. Also some people say they shouldn’t get paid because the students didn’t go to college to get paid they went to get a degree. The pros of paying college athletes is college athletes would be able to provide for their family, and they would be able to pay for hospital cost just in case of a serious injury. The cons of paying college athletes is some students that play sports for their colleges will think that they…
In my opinion, I believe college athletes shouldn’t be paid to play their sport for several reasons. First of all, it’s a HUGE recruiting advantage for big schools. For example, big Football schools like USC, Texas, and Alabama make a lot…
The NCAA is considered a non-profit organization by many of the people that are in charge of this business. As a non-profit organization the NCAA averages an annual profit of 6 billion dollars. The volunteers of this company are made slaves by the system. The athletes no longer scoring the game winning touchdowns are soon forgotten about. Many of these athletes going in their thirties and forties are barely able to walk, and cannot go through the day without a headache. Student athletes deserve to be compensated for risking their bodies for the NCAA, and the millions of fans watching for entertainment.…
For many college athletes, the lure of playing pro sports is intoxicating. Dreams of fancy cars, luxurious homes, tailor-made suits, voluptuous women, and the mental images of a crowded stadium chanting their name is enough for any collegiate athlete to think about abandoning their education for a chance at stardom. When the dreams are solidified with million dollar contracts, think immediately is replaced by impulse. Left behind in the frenzy is the much needed college education that no one seems to care about any more. An athletes only hope is to complete a college education first for what life's lessons has to offer later when hard-knocks is the final exam.…
The Controversy behind College Athletes Since 1957, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) has permitted universities to provide athletic scholarships for players they felt would benefit their teams ("Paying College Athletes"para.4). The NCAA’s revenue has significantly increased over the past couple of decades. In 2006, colleges that were members of the NCAA earned $4.2 billion from their basketball program and about $1 billion more than the revenue generated by all NBA teams combined in the 2004–05 season ("Paying College Athletes"para.4). Although college athletes are not fairly compensated, College athletes should not be paid, because of their amateur status, pay in equivalency between sports, and total revenue gains from colleges.…
Approximately every year 1 billion dollars in athletic scholarships are given out, because of this college athletes should not be paid. College athletes should not be paid because there’s not enough money to give scholarships and pay the athletes at the same time.…
In college, sports sometime become the facade of the university and or college. In return, the universities drastic rise in popularity comes from their sports programs. Ultimately, studies have shown student athletes put in more effort on the field or court than they do in the classroom. Therefore college student athletes should be paid for playing their sport while attending school. Many people say that college athletes should not be paid because college tuition, fees, rooms, and textbooks.…
With the 2012-13 NCAA Football season ending just 2 months ago with Alabama trumping Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship, and March Madness just days away, the issue of paying college athletes is as popular as ever. Despite the recent scandals, the popularity of college sports is at its all time high. With millions of people watching these sports, the broadcasting alone brings in over 700 million dollars each year for the NCAA. When the NCAA is making that much a year, doesn’t it make you wonder if the right people are being paid?…