surrounding the compensation of college athletes has garnished widespread attention across America. While very few institutional athletic programs are able to achieve a sustainable budget‚ the NCAA should not allow institutions to provide salaries for student athletes because it will impair the mission of higher education‚ and destroy the true meaning of college sport. First and foremost‚ institutions cannot afford to pay student athletes. The majority of college athletic programs
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Paying of College Athletes: An Annotated Bibliography O ’Shaughnessy‚ Lynn. "7 Things You Need to Know About Sports Scholarships." US News. U.S.News & World Report‚ 22 June 2010. Web. 20 June 2012. http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2010/06/22/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-sports-scholarships This source gives information on sports scholarships. It states that there are seven things to know about college scholarships. The first thing an athletes needs to know is the
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yearly.” All this money goes to support championships and programs that benefit student athletes and for building operations. The NCAA is supposed to be a non-profit organization but they sell jerseys with the star athletes names on them. The “student-athletes” get none of the money that is made by selling their name on the jerseys. Even though they get a free education with their scholarship‚ college athletes should be getting some compensation for their hard work and abilities because they are expected
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October 2014 Should College Athletes Be Paid? The NCAA makes billions of dollars every year off of college sports (Johnson). Last year the NCAA men’s basketball tournament made nearly 1.15 billion dollars just off of the television ads ran during the tournament (Johnson). Athletes should be paid for their time and efforts put into the sport. They are making a ton of money for other people and they don’t get to see any of it. There are many reasons that college athletes should be paid‚ they make
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selling merchandise. Should NCAA pay their athletes? No‚ because they already get free things from their sponsors‚ they get paid by their education‚ last but not least it will trouble other non-generating revenue clubs. The first reason why athletes should not get paid is because they already get free things from their sponsors to their fans. “The NCAA athletes get paid with psychology classes‚ track suits‚ knee braces‚ and ice baths.” This proves that the athletes get free stuff some of it that they don’t
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most teens‚ would be college. Many teenagers desire the next level of education after high school‚ but with that‚ comes another increase in amounts of obstacles. The obstacles continue to increase if one gets the opportunity to play collegiate sports‚ which is a desire for many young athletes. Playing collegiate sports destroys
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Not Paying College Athletes 1 College Athletes Should Not Be Paid Jason Jia English III‚ P.2 Phyllis Kadrmas May 16‚ 2014 Not Paying College Athletes 2 Abstract In recent years‚ many people debate whether college athletes should be paid or not. This debate has gone on for many years and soon it will be solved. This paper will talk about the negative effects of paying college athletes and the benefits they are already receiving from their schools
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Compensation for College Athletes Athletes have to be dedicated to the game they play. Dedication means something different to each person; it is how the person responds to adversity that makes all the difference for when they play again. When student athletes have to practice they must be committed to their sport. This means student athletes must make their sport their second full time job‚ their first full time job is their schooling. Division 1 football players spend 43.3 hours a week practicing
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College Athletes Shouldn’t Be Paid While catching up on some game day scores for college football‚ an article popped up on the side with a title reading‚ College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid. I noticed it was written by Michael Wilbon‚ one of the hosts from the ESPN show‚ Pardon the Interruption. Already disagreeing with the title before even reading it‚ I was skeptical‚ but I clicked on the link and started to read. Wilbon brought up a number of decent points throughout the article‚ but for
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Should College Athletes Be Paid? Believe it or not‚ student athletes currently on a full scholarship to play their desired sport are struggling to live. Simply‚ because scholarships do not provide the full cost to be able to live a healthy lifestyle. Essentially‚ athletes may be starving themselves because they have no other options. Place yourself in their shoe for a second‚ although that may be a fairly large shoe to fill. With many athletes not coming from a wealthy background‚ they have limited
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