Patrick Goss Advanced PR Writing: Feature Word Count: 1050 Purpose: Lay out point of views to the subject Audience: College athletic supporters Pay to Play: College Athletic’s Solution to Problems? Imagine this: you are a star athlete at the University of Miami. You meet Nevin Shapiro‚ a wealthy businessman who is willing to help you out. As a struggling college student‚ let alone a college athlete‚ money is hard to come by. There is no time for work between all the training and practices
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the injustice. In most cases I would agree with you‚ but let me explain. This program is a typical NCAA Division I college football team. College athletes should continue to not be paid under any circumstance. Of all the money generated by the athletic department of a university‚ 80% is from football and 20%is form men’s basketball. The other 10 sports either break even or lose money. All of the profit from football and basketball is used to help small sports such as golf‚ swimming and woman’s
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some form of allegiance to one sports team or another. We often fantasize about what it would be like to throw the game winning touchdown in the Rose Bowl‚ or hit the buzzer beater shot to get into the final four‚ however the actual lives of these collegiate athletes is much less glamorous than the bright lights make it seem. The majority of these athletes struggle financially due to their busy schedule filled up by a sport’s practice‚ games‚ or even recovering from the previous two. The reality is
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for any NBA or NCAA team and being an athletic director of a university are two dream jobs of mine that are certainly reachable. I keep these dream jobs in the back of my mind at all times‚ in order to remind myself to always take advantage of opportunities and work my hardest. Everyone should research into their dream job to learn about certain connections to make or just learn more about the job in general. To be a scout for any professional or collegiate basketball team is a definite dream job
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First of all‚ the risk factor involved with collegiate sports is all to high to not compensate players. If a student-athlete is hurt or unsuccessful‚ the coaches and administrators can thus waive a player and left with nothing. Moreover‚ no one mentions the lifetime of health care bills that await some student-athletes in contact sports. How can a "free education" compensate them for debilitating injuries caused during their time on campus? And how can we as fans truly enjoy a football game knowing
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been an ongoing debate since the early 1900s. With current television revenue resulting from NCAA football bowl games and March Madness in basketball‚ there is now a commotion for compensating both football and basketball players beyond that of an athletic scholarship. Because of the title “Student-athlete”‚ college athletes have the obligation to be a student first‚ and an athlete second and should not be paid to play. There have been ongoing arguments for the past decade of whether or not college
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on the men’s basketball team‚ stole a pair of shoes‚ $500 and 26 video games in May from a friend’s apartment just north of campus‚ according to a metro police report released today. The UNLV athletic department made an estimate of $38‚377‚947 this year alone according ESPN college sports. So with the athletics programs making so much money why should their student athletes feel they have to steal? That’s because the student athletes that helps generate these millions and billions of dollars don’t
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Samuel Wingert Professor Grimm ENG100G Midterm Research Paper 18 October 2012 Collegiate Level “Pay to play? That’s the question being fiercely debated on campuses and across the college conferences. And it’s shocking to see the level of support the answer “yes” is getting—because the idea tears at the very nature of amateur college sports” (Should). There are views from both sides as this is quite the controversial subject in the sporting world. Looking at the facts‚ it is difficult to
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1865‚ there is one major case that is overlooked by millions and that slavery is the plantation system involving universities taking advantage from the forced amateurism of student athletes in the present day of sports. In the world of college‚ athletics today schools have become a billion dollar industry profiting from the exploitation involving thousands of college athletes who are given only a scholarship‚ which more than 50 percent of college athletes push aside for another goal. This goal chased
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Cited: "Cost of Attendance: Fall 2012/Spring 2013." Fsu.edu. Web. 25 Apr. 2012. GOLDMAN‚ ANDREW. "She Got Game." She Got Game 09 Feb. 2012. Web. 23 Mar. 2012 . "Highest Net Income Amongst Athletics Departments Highest Net Income Amongst Athletics Department «. 21 Mar. 2011. Web. 07 Apr. 2012.. Press‚ Associated. "Report Makes Case for Paying players." ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures‚ 12 Sept. 2011. Web. 25 Apr. 2012.. "Should College Players Get Paid? – Morning Express - CNN.com Blogs." Morning
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