The single most debated topic when it comes to compensating student-athletes concerns whether student athletes should be paid beyond the full cost of attending school. The pay for play doctrine, in which athletes would earn a portion of the revenue they help generate, is a highly controversial topic that has become more popular in recent years. The arguments in favor of pay for play originate from the fact that the players are the reason why the NCAA is able to make television contracts. These contracts include $11 billion over 14 years just for the television rights to March Madness. Without the players of different sports and genders, the NCAA…
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.…
Imagine what would happen if we would pay the college athletes for performing. It would be a disaster because that is all they would do, they would only play for the money. Most of the athletes wouldn’t play for the fun of the game, or the fame that comes with playing, they would just worry about the paycheck that comes with playing. If anything all of the athletes are paid already with scholarships and the free things they get to use. Not playing for money in college, will most likely make the athletes work even harder to get to professional sports.…
Could you imagine if college athletes would get paid? College athletes that play sports everyday and don’t have time to get a job and do their academics. Most college athletes that play football or basketball and if they win a championship they bring millions of money back to the college. If you go to college and play sports like basketball,football you should get paid for how long you stay in college for the sports before you go pro or drop out. Because most athletes think when they get paid they can just go blow all their money but they don’t think they have to pay the school back. Therefore,college athletes should get paid. Because if the athletes get good grades and perform good they should get…
Why should college athletes be paid to participate in their sports? College athletes are awarded tuition free college due to their hard work and athletic abilities, why should they get paid extra money outside of their tuition being paid? Student athletes in college only have two jobs while they are attending, to learn and become a better and smarter athlete. These student athletes don’t need extra money outside of having their tuition, room and board, and food paid for. They are also given clothing which takes away another money based need.These student athletes are given much more than other students and yet they still believe that they should be paid for their extra work outside of their performances. The main reason is because they are already paid through their scholarships to go to school and play sports. Other reasons to this opinion is to maintain their amatuer status, difficult…
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.…
How many college athletes aren’t poor? The college athletes refers to the people who play sport that is organized by institutions. Only one out of twenty five would become pro. I think they should be paid to know how to administrate the money, so it wood be good for them. Also they are in danger while they are playing.…
College athletes, the football and basketball player go through very hard time because the sports arena is characterized by injuries, politics and unfair dismissal from the team. According to Tyson Hartnett, “Why College Athletes Should Be Paid” says, many players often get scholarships from a period of one or two years which covers college tuition fee, meal-plan, housing and textbook and these benefits, participating in college sports is considered a full time job and also the NCAA produce billion in annual revenue from college sports by selling tickets, through donations, media right and advertising. Also Tyson argued that athletes must get paid some money each semester so it would help them a lot, they can spend money on item they needed as well as opportunity to start managing…
"If you pay to participate in a sport, the overall quality of the team, equipment, and experience will be better," quote from Murphy Georger. What Georger is saying is that when you pay to participate in a sport everything will be better because the money that people pay to join will be used in a fabulous way. And if he or she pays to participate the money everyone pays can be gathered up and used to help the team succeed. Students should pay to play a school sport because the money can be used to buy good equipment, they can also use the money to pay the coach, and the athletes could use the money to benifit the team.…
For years the question, “Should college athletes be paid?” has appeared in the debatable world. College athletes across the nation have argued that they deserve compensation for the particular sport in which they participate in. “We deserve a check for what we do,” Southern Miss football player, Urell Johnson stated. “Win or lose, our sport is our job. We work all day, every day. If you think about it, the athletic department brings in the most revenue to the university.” Non-athletes, such as students (like myself) and faculty, have disagreed with the idea of reimbursing athletes who are still in college. Paying college athletes would be absurd, being that it would be too expensive, produce avaricious athletes, and most of all, it would be injustice to every other young adult attending college.…
On the contrary, some people think college athletes should not be payed due to the extensive amounts of financial help already given. This point makes sense because a college athlete receives many things connected to their scholarship such as: tuition, books, meals, housing, uniforms (depending on certain sport), etc. However, all scholarships are not full you can receive a partial scholarship, therefore leaving the rest of the pay to you. Therefore, some people believe college athletes should not be payed due to the extensive amounts of financial support given by the…
College players need to get paid for what they do. When college players do not get paid, they do not get paid for the great things that they do on national TV. College players make more money for school playing their sport than people's salaries. Did you know that just if you make it to the NCAA BCS game, you get at least six million dollars. That's not even if you win. Sure student athletes get free things like free tuition, board, room fees, and food, but paying players would give them money for things like laundry, late night snacks, food for restaurants when on the road, and just different things. The three reasons why student athletes should get paid is because playing a college sport is like having a job, college players make money for…
Under any circumstance, the debate of whether or not college athletes should be paid is…
The NCAA makes an estimate of nine hundred and eighty nine million dollars annually. The NCAA is able to make this gigantic profit while paying its employees absolutely nothing. If this situation would happen with a large employer paying its employees nothing, the company would get into serious legal trouble. However, since they are college athletes, society thinks it is okay. While many people say that receiving an education is enough of a privilege and paying college athletes would ruin the spirit of the game, college athletes should nevertheless be able to use their names for monetary gain because, everyone else in the business gets paid, college athletes train like professional athletes and athletes produce millions for their college but are paid nothing.…