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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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 the
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Should College Athletes be Paid? Maybe it was the annual spectacle of March Madness and the fact that UCONN came out of nowhere as an underdog to win their 3rd national NCAA men’s basketball title. Maybe it was the excitement of watching the UCONN football team playing in its first ever BCS Bowl against Oklahoma last year. Whatever he reason‚ the media and sports critics always ignite a fresh debate over the merits of paying college athletes for their services to the schools. Over the past few
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Every year‚ colleges send out recruiters from their schools to search for the most talented‚ unique‚ and determined athletes all over the world. Some students come from halfway across the country‚ or even half way across the world just for the privilege of attending‚ studying‚ and most importantly‚ playing a sport for a universities sports team. Some of these students can barely speak English‚ or hardly passed high school‚ but in the end that is all irrelevant because these colleges take these students
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given out to college athletes every year. Some believe the scholarships are not enough and that athletes should be paid like the professional players. Others believe the scholarships should be enough. This focuses the controversial question‚ should college athletes be payed like professional athletes? College athletes and other people believe that college athletes should receive a salary. Many reasons go into why college athletes should obtain a pay check. First‚ the athletes are putting themselves
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Cam Kirk Eng Daste kjnkjgjhgj “There are approximately 176‚000” (NCAA) student athletes currently playing sports in college. If you ask people whether College athletes should be paid‚ most would say yes‚ but most people don’t realize the factors that go into that decision. With that being said college athletes should not be paid because they receive more benefits than other people on campus by receiving free things like education‚ clothing/accessories‚ and the cost for the staff and for transportation
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Play Since athletes bring millions of dollars into their colleges every year‚ universities should compensate their athletes. College athletes today put in as much time as someone with a full time job. Ramog Huma‚ a Korean College athlete and president of the National College Players Association says “college athletes are just like all other hard www.scholastic working Americans’‚ they should receive a fair days pay for a fair days work” (sic)(Rebeca Zisscu np.) College athletes often work 40
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The System for college athletes isnt perfect‚ and needs to be worked on‚ a big problem we cannot seem to agree is how to compensate the student-athletes who drive the NCAA. I would like to start off with a question. Are college athletes being compensated enough for the effort they put forth today? Every Day they wake up early and represent their university whether they are putting in work in class or on the field. Each student-student athlete generates tons of money for their university and they
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Keyon Billie Ms.Gavin Speech Class 3/25/2013 Over the past few years college athletics have gained immense popularity across the United States. Whether it be football‚ basketball‚ or hockey‚ ever since the turn of the century‚ intercollegiate sports have brought in a surplus of revenue to their respective Universities‚ as well as increasing the popularity of the College’s reputation. For example‚ in a study conducted by the Orland Sentientnel‚ it was estimated that the University of Texas’
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doesn’t get paid to play football. Johnny Manziel‚ a player from the Cleveland Browns‚ gets paid $420‚000 a year. If college athletes were paid it could be the difference between a “Big 10” college team that pays a lot or a less popular division that doesn’t pay much at all. Most people believe that college student athletes should be paid for playing a collegiate sport while going to school. Social media is reining over our lives nowadays with the glamorous lives of professional athletes fancy cars
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