The Pros And Cons Of College Athletes

The National College Athlete association is very huge and well known across many of our earth’s countries. There are some of the most known sports in this “league”. The most popular and well known sports would be football and basketball and lesser of baseball and lacrosse. The big key for the NCAA and its funding would be football and basketball. They are huge keys in the popularity and TV shows and such. There’s a question to be had and that is how much are they really making? Who is making them this money? The athletes are seeing no gain and the biggest dilemma in here that I am going to address is whether or not these athletes should be seeing some sort of “cut’ in these profits. The NCAA host a huge tournament for its basketball program
every year and its called “March Madness”. This tournament alone has people across the country making brackets and betting on which team will make it to win and there’s so much money in the advertising and in the showing of these games held during the month of March that being just over 15 million in the year of 2016. We are talking millions of dollars. The worst part? The athletes don’t get to see any of it.
College athletes are just people like us and they have to do everything like a student would, plus more. They are considered by some people to be employees just because of what they do for us. They spend 40 plus hours in the gym or the field practicing and or watching film to improve etc. They do it for the people they are putting a show on for us because the only reason we have the programs is for people all over to watch America’s favorites. That being sports. These kids are out here risking their bodies and reputations for us the people to come watch and spectate. They put in hard work and stay dedicated to what they have been blessed to do and it would be very beneficial to start letting these guys see some money because of their well-rounded talents.
The NCAA has had this dilemma for quite a few years and they simply cannot afford to keep ignoring this and they cannot keep pushing it away because it will keep reoccurring until something is done about it and they will be harped on. The numbers show that from all sports in total they’ve generated 845 billion dollars. So the question is why can’t the athletes see any percentage of that? They have scholarships yes but there’s rules in place that they are only allowed to use this for things like schooling and expenses for books and such but they can’t just choose what they may need to spend it on. Another rule that e want to be revoked is the athlete’s ability to make money from their own name in fame. They also have got bold and regulated working or getting an actual paying job as an NCAA collegiate athlete because they simply do not want them to cash in on anything the NCAA isn’t involved with because the simple yet most reoccurring opinion is they are GREEDY. The thing is bogus, if they’re offered money to buy a
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In one of my sources it stated that there is a double standard in this because if a musically talented kid on a scholarship were to accept things and money and gifts etc. there would be no one to point a finger and say this and that thus being the double standard. There are some people who would compare the athletes to pro because they have all the same risks and some even have more fame the players in the NFL.
The NCAA has said that they don’t see college athletes as pros because they are still in college and they seem to have a different story with the coaching staff them may be considered to be
“paid” in a professional manner. This is true because an average major college head coach will get paid $1.5 Million to at most $ 5 million there is more than enough money to be spread around in this program and there’s so many people who will complain.
The very hard and tedious part if that people all have opinions on what is right and what’s not. We aren’t asking these kids to be paid millions the thing that people look past. The players need some money to be financially stable and have sense of where they are in their checkbooks.
They need compensated or there efforts just like anyone else would complain for doing
free labor you could call it. There is also an issue with people calling it unequal and unfair if just the football and basketball programs have payment plan but the other sports complaining like soccer volleyball and hockey aren’t the real big tickets sports for us. There isn’t equality and there never will be.
The big sports that bring in the big money should get the payment program and the people saying the money could not be distributed evenly are not looking hard into their claim because that is wrong and the easy part is that we have made the money for them and they aren’t giving the same cut they should be treated fairly and there are lots of athletes in this country who aren’t categorized as rich or poor or mediocre. The majority of the athletes in these programs don’t get much help and need to rely on themselves and paying them enough to get by and live like a comfortable student. So they can do what they need to do and learn and get out and better contribute the world.
There are so many violations being broken now a days with this dilemma in the sports culture and there’s so many moms and dads that want to see their child grow up and go to top dog schools and carry the family names and have a good life and they want to make the big bucks and then take care of their own family but the way things are now they can’t even catch a break to take care of themselves and as a person. Even the rich and or more privileged kids aren’t silly when it comes to an offer of any amount of money for school an and offer to play a sport and everyone always has the want and desire to make their own money in this band of athletes around the world. There are many things the NCAA could do and it’d be better for everyone the players should now be allowed to sign things and profit be able to keep the money for which they sign. The money they get allotted from month to month for food to about 2000$ or 3000$ and then they could not have to worry about that either. They should get to see some of the money from video games and sign a deal that they’d get some percentage. They could be required to take a class for their financial things and they could learn how to better handle all of their money.
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The big counter argument that reoccurs in this is that paying the athletes would cause a warlike level for these sports and derail the competition and change everything but this would not be a problem if all the big time schools handled things the right way and did everything by the code that would be re written if this was to go into full effect and there would be so many little things to address but we can make it happen. If an athlete were to get 2000$ - 3000$ a month then they could be okay and if they were to fail things like a drug test or not getting good grades then it could be taken away and this would make the work ethics and will to keep grades and keep clean would increase because now paying them they would fear losing it and it just adds that much more will. There are so many rules and lots of regulations that need to be addressed and added or removed. We need to stop punishing players for doing what they need to do like getting a little bit of extra cash and or free things like meals and stuff. There’s so many people with the same idea as I and there’s a lot the needs to change and my opinion on all of it
is stated up above and I keep reading all the great excuses the NCAA has about getting them paid with a free education and blah.