Why Should Scholarship Athletes Be Paid? Recently in the news‚ there was a report on the five University of Kentucky basketball players that decided to enter the NBA draft after only their freshmen season. Sure‚ they were told of the millions of dollars they could make in professional sports‚ but were they given the odds of them even reaching that big payday? From picks 5-10 in the draft‚ the success rate of the player becoming a league average starter is about 30%‚ then for the rest of the first
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Pay College Athletes Currently‚ sports are clearly used for a business opportunity‚ not for the love of the game. Did you know that in 2011 the NCAA signed a 14-year contract with CBS and Time Warner Cable worth 10.8 billion dollars for just three weekends of men’s college basketball? The NCAA claims to be a non-profit association but they make an average of 11 billion dollars in annual revenue. Many people don’t realize the NCAA treats student-athletes like employees. College basketball and football
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think that a group of more than 460‚000 people would go out and volunteer to work for a company bringing in about 1 billion dollars a year‚ make that company more and more money‚ and sacrifice all of their time for them? And‚ the company doesn’t pay them‚ but claim that they do pay them‚ when the money just goes back to the company anyway. Do you think that someone would do that? No because that would be foolish‚ right? Then why do the college athletes do it? The answer is simply because the NCAA
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Why College? Have you ever wanted to make a successful change in your life? I always wanted to be the one who did more than succeed. I wanted to be the over succeeder. College is a beautiful place to make a name for yourself. It gives you so many options and pathways to choose from. You can never go wrong in college‚ that is if you uphold your standards. I chose to attend college for various reasons. I wanted to be the one to make achieve my goals out of my family‚ I always had motives‚ and I
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I decided to return to school because of my financial situation‚ my children‚ and myself. All of these reasons above are why I decided to go back to school‚ and so I would like you to sit back as I paint you the picture of my life before I decided to go to school. I have been struggling financially for some years since I had my children. With the economy being so bad‚ and prices constantly going up how can I continue to survive on mininum wage? Before I had children it seemed a lot easier to survive
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to pay‚ that is the question that colleges are facing. College athletes are at college for an education‚ which is being lost fully paid for‚ therefore they should not be paid a salary on top of it. Problems arise when colleges discuss paying athletes. First they don’t have enough money‚ the athletes are first and foremost students‚ and it would lead to unfair circumstances. Even though tuition and various college prices are high‚ colleges are in debt. Colleges are meant for furthering education
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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
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Chattahoochee Technical College should pay for every students textbook’s because not everyone receive financial aid‚ students are dropping out from college‚ tuition is already expensive. Education plays a huge role in everyone’s life‚ and college is not cheap. Not everybody is eligible to receive aid from the government‚ such as Pell Grant‚ HOPE Grant‚ or Zell Miller. Some people have the financial ability to pay for college and
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College may not be for everyone; not everyone likes school. Many people think it is necessary for everyone to go to college‚ but not all high school graduates should have to attend college to be successful. There are many other options. Not everyone can afford to go to college it is very expensive. It sometimes is very difficult for someone to go to college right after high school because of the cost. According to research‚ the average cost for a public college is about $33‚480. Even the
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Why I decided to return to school The Purpose of my essay is to give my readers some high in sight on a few different challenges in my life that helped motivate me upon my return to school. I am a single 45 year old divorced woman with six children. I needed a good paying job and a college education to be able to continue supporting my family. I am also the youngest child of four and the light of my mother’s eyes. I was once married to my children’s father for 20 years. My ex-husband was
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