...Should College Athletes Be Paid? Raymond Allaire English 102 Fall A Group 10 September 7, 2014 Should College Athletes Get Paid? Many football fans are aware of the former college football star Johnny Manziel, now an NFL quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, or they know him by his moniker Johnny Football, the first ever Freshman Heisman Trophy winner. Following his Heisman Trophy and becoming one of the most renowned college athletes of all time, the seemingly untouchable Johnny Manziel was believed to have signed and then sold his autographs for money. Texas A&M raked in 740 million dollars last year and some believe a huge chunk of that came from Johnny Manziel being the exciting attraction and draw that he is. So doesn’t he deserve a little compensation for doing what he does when the pros get paid for similar exposure? For the past few years universities have been banned from bowl games, had wins taken away, and scholarships stripped as the result of a handful of players accepting "gifts" from the aptly named boosters. Should college athletes be paid as a reward for risking possible injury and potentially ending their athletic pursuits as a result, all in the name of university revenues? College athletes deserve to share in university revenues because the university benefits from them, they should be able to pursue endorsement deals if offered, and because they are risking personal injury should be afforded some degree of insurance or reward. Adrian Peterson...
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...Should College Athletes be Paid? College experiences can and are some of the best times in your life. The possibilities for great experiences in college are endless. College also gives a vast and wide range of education. There are so many different careers and opportunities for college students. Some of these opportunities are fraternity houses and you can attend parties and also universities have a huge selection of clubs you can join. Athletics are a very substantial part of college. College athletics are the biggest income for Universities and are a large popularity factor also. College athletes contribute to much of the funds of their universities. Therefore they should be paid. College athletes should be payed every year. This is becoming a problem for many student athletes because these kids are going home every night not having hardly any food to eat. These students do not have any time to get part-time jobs or side jobs. They are consumed with school clubs and the curricular activities they are at the University for. College student-athletes on average spend 43.3 hours a week for school(Forbes). This is pretty much a full-time job except without the paycheck, and they end up having homework and projects on top of that. Athletes bring endless success to their Universities. A study shows...
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...Should College Athletes be paid? What really is the true definition of an amateur? The true definition is a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid basis. If this is the true definition then why are the schools paying their athletes to come and help bring the attention there school. I believe if this is going to happen, they need to do it equally and give the athletes what they are deserving of. Many athletes are giving their health and stability to help make their colleges revenue. I believe the only thing that is standing against this becoming the future instead of just an idea is the men at the corrupted NCAA (National College Athletic Association). I think the NCAA and the athletic boards throughout the United States are corrupt and are money hungry. However, not every collegiate sports bring in the revenue such as football and basketball do for their universities. So if college athletes were ever to be paid it would be because of these sports. Mostly, as the U.S. News reports that the NCAA brings in more than 1 billion dollars from the NCAA Men’s and Women’s basketball tournaments (U.S. News), where does the money go for the athletes who bring them such wealth? It ends up into to the hands of the men and women that have enough money than they can handle. Which is not setting good examples for their athletes that they are in charge of. If they NCAA truly wants the amateurism to stick throughout time and not have to pay their athletes,...
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...asked when college athletes should turn pro, the late, famous actor, Will Rogers, said, “Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.” Whether we like to admit it or not, the student-athletes attending a university are indeed amateurs. With their future coming near, it is important that the students get the most out of school as they can and that they not rush the process. Although many critics believe that college athletes are being exploited by not being financially compensated, not paying athletes will allow them to benefit from their additional advantages, gain from the learning experience of college, and allow all college athletes to be treated more fairly. College athletes should not be paid because they already receive fair compensation through several additional benefits in...
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...Sports in the college world are popular in the U.S. world. Mainly, we enjoy watching these events because it features colleges from our state or alma mater. The athletes in college play the sport because most of them want to make a career off of it, while others play it for enjoyment. Unlike professional sports, college athletes do not get paid during their time playing in college. Usually they try to improve their stock in college in order to have a chance to play professionally by getting drafted by a pro team. However, most athletes get scholarships to enter their college of choice. Recently, there have been arguments within college athletes that they should be payed for playing their respective sport. This has been a popular topic among the college ranks whether they should pay these college athletes when they already have a scholarship and get national exposure. Nonetheless, college athletes should not be paid for playing their respective sport because athletes already have positive benefits of being able to be in college and playing a sport. There are many negative aspects of paying college athletes. We can start with financial cost within the NCAA industry. This issue has mainly started with men’s basketball and football players. The issue is that if the NCAA is to pay men’s basketball and football players, they would also have to pay women’s volleyball and soccer players, and every other athlete at these institutions. According to TITLE IX, it must provide equal opportunity...
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...Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. C Team BCOM/275 Robert May Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. Should college athletes be paid to play? That is the question and discussion being presented not only in this paper but also across many colleges in these United States. There are many pros and cons to college athletes being paid to play their sport, which makes this is a very controversial topic. Are the sport scholarships and uniforms enough? Should schools really pocket all that money they make in revenue from the sports teams? Many moral, ethical and legal issues can be raised in the idea of paying college athletes to play, on both the pro and con side of the issue. Should an athlete receive a full ride scholarship and also be paid from the school to play? Many big universities may be able to handle such a thing, but what about the small colleges that do not receive such a large amount of revenue from their sports teams? Can or should schools pay all the athletes or only the top players? What about Title IX, how will potentially paying athletes be affected by it? All these topics will be discussed, as well as Team C’s final decision on this matter. PROS In 2012 the athletic revenue reported by University of Texas was $163.2 million, Alabama $143.4 million, Ohio State $142.0 million and Michigan $140.1 million (Berkowitz, Schnaars, & Upton, 2014) Coaches like Nick Saban (Alabama Football) and Mike Krzyzewski (Duke Men’s Basketball) make in excess of $7 Million...
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...Should college athletes be compensated? There are many people that think athletes should be paid and there are many people that think they should not. Paying college athletes is a controversial topic that many people are against. Millions of dollars are made by the success of these athletes and the teams they play for. Opponents believe athletes should be paid because of their hard work; college athletes receive benefits from their institutions, and the NCAA find paying college athletes a violation. First of all, many opponents surrounding the issue of paying college athletes believe they should be paid. Their theory of paying these athletes is due to their hard work. College athletes put in numerous hours every week preparing for games. The hours they put in come from practice, study hall, conditioning, position meetings, team meetings, and breakfast checks. There are so many things that these athletes are held accountable for that lead up to the whole package of being a college athlete. As important as football is, academics are even more important. The countless hours’ athletes put in on a daily basis for football don’t stop there. Athletes are required to...
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...Whether college athletes should be paid or not is a very controversial topic in the sports world. Many professional football or basketball players in the NCAA and the NBA get paid millions of dollars each year (Text 1, lines 10-16). However, college athletes don’t deserve to be paid as if they were in the NCAA or the NBA. People in the sports community hasn't taken into consideration all the benefits that student-athletes receive with an athletic scholarship. Due to universities providing scholarships and paid tuition, athletes shouldn’t be paid to play a sport. The athletic scholarship, paid tuition, and extra benefits that the student-athletes receive is pay enough. For instance, text 4 implies that an athletic scholarship can be worth approximately twenty to fifty thousand per year, and this doesn’t include the protective gear or travel expenses that students don’t have to worry about (lines 5-6). People need to...
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...Dustin Davis Mrs. Herr English 102 12 April 2016 College Athletes Should Be Paid Many people in the United States say that college athletes should not get paid because they already receive a scholarship. Did you know that college athletes miss quality class time to play in tournaments and televised games? What happens when that scholarship is revoked, or for the athlete that only receives a partial scholarship or not one at all? The majority of college athletes put more time into playing their sport than an employee does working a full time job. Student athletes are also core members of the University’s marketing team. How are college athletes supposed to pay for tuition and everyday expenses if they are not paid for what they do for the school? Also, a sports injury could prevent a college athlete from ever playing again. College athletics have gained immense popularity over the past few years. The NCAA is a billion-dollar industry and has been for a long time. Due to the increased ratings of college athletics, the NCAA will continue to rise. Therefore, college athletes should be paid. To begin, college athletes miss classes to play in tournaments and televised games, reducing the quality of their education. According to Marc Edelman, Forbes contributor, “The men’s college basketball teams would miss up to a fourth of their classes due to the tournaments they participate in” (“NCAA”). College athletes should receive some type of pay for this because they are risking the...
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...College athletes should not be paid. Why should college athletes be paid, when it’s their choice to play the sport or not? College athletic programs can’t afford to pay athletes. There is a lot of money being put into athletic programs, but there is also the same amount going out and a lot of the programs are working at a loss. Most college athletes get sports scholarships, which should be payment enough. The athletes mostly always get their full tuition paid for, or at least discounted. Millions or even billions are given to athletes every year. The athletic scholarship for a school overtakes the school’s tuition. Even if a student doesn’t actually get money towards tuition, they get “freebies” for housing, meals, etc. Playing sports...
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...country is should college athletes be paid. College basketball and football are the main programs that bring in billions of dollars to their universities and they do not get a big enough piece of the pie for the work that they put in.I strongly believe that college athletes should be paid outside of just scholarships. While the universities, coaches and the NCAA benefit off the hard work of these athletes. At a glance it looks as if everybody is getting rich off of the athletes hard work, except for the athletes themselves. The NCAA, or National College Athletic Association, has ran Intercollegiate sports since way back to the 1850s. For most of the past 150 years, playing for the love of the game rather than for profit...
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...Matt Miller COM 210-003 Persuasive Speech 4/4/12 Topic: Should college athletes be paid to play sports? Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience why collegiate athletes should not be paid to play. Introduction Opening Comment: Image that you just scored the game-winning basket in the NCAA basketball tournament championship. Your shot just helped the school get tens of millions of dollars. Now by a show of hands, how many of you think that you should earn a share of that money? Central Idea: One of the most controversial and prominent topics in sports today is whether or not schools should pay their student-athletes to play their sports. I am going to argue as to why they should not be paid to play. Preview of Main Points: I will talk about five key reasons as to why collegiate athletes do not deserve to be paid to play. These are because of already established scholarships, would lead to decreased competition, the fact that there isn’t enough money for schools to give out already, a removal of innocence would occur, and recruiting would suffer among schools. Transition: First, I will explain why collegiate athletes already receive enough money from scholarships and free tuition. Body I. Tuition and the “Student” A. Already receiving thousands of dollars from athletic scholarships 1. According to a Parade Magazine article, Division I student athletes can receive between $20,000 and $50,000 per year. 2. A study done by...
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...Persuasive Outline Topic: Should College Athletes be Paid?” Position Statement: Yes, but with terms. [pic] Introduction: Attention Getter: • Do you know how much the University of Missouri-Columbia made in revenue from its football program last year? o Answer: 15.3 million • Do you know how much the University of Missouri-Columbia spent on each football player on its team last year? o $25, 261 * 60 players = $1,515,660 • A difference of about 14 million dollars. Thus, the players on the field are earning less than 1% of the revenue that they are bringing into the University. In comparison, Coach Gary Pinkel makes 2.5 million per year. Audience Motivation: • Although, I will not argue that a college player should make as much as a Coach, the conversation must be had on whether college payers deserve any compensation for extra earnings a University makes off of their name. For example, Texas A&M paid Johnny Manziel (last years Heisman trophy winner) nothing after it made over $50, 000 off of his jerseys sales last year. Although, Manziel does receive a full scholarship to attend the University it does not compare to the amount of revenue that his name brings into the University or the NCAA as a whole. Understandably, not all college athletes are as popular as Manziel but this should not be to Manziel’s detriment and prevent him from earning income he would be entitled to had he not played college football. Thesis ...
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...I think college athletes should be paid. One reason I think this is because they basically put they're life on the line to make other people money. Granted, some athletes are better than other but all of them should get some money from their sales they bring in. Such as if their jersey gets sold out servel months in a row or something. It just makes sense. Other reason for them being paid is that they live off nothing. Most of them are to busy playing football and keeping good grades they can't get a job. So how are they supposs to feed themselves to make themselves all star football they need to be. Also, if they get injuried in the game, they are completly in the wrong. They have to pay the whole medical bill. How are they suppose to do that without any money?...
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...Should College Athletes Be Paid? Should College Athletes Be Paid? College athletes should be paid to play for many reasons. First of all, college athletes aren’t allowed to work. How are they going to pay for all the necessary expenses if they come from poor families? This also leads to players accepting illegal money, cars, clothes, etc. College athletes bring in millions of dollars through merchandise and games. Most of the athletes that have the opportunity to leave school and turn professional do so, because college athletes live in near poverty. Since college athletes are not allowed to work, even if they have the extra time to do so, they have to sacrifice meals, new clothes, and other necessary items in order to save money for they future. Some of the players who receive no money from their families accept illegal offers in order to buy necessary items. Most college athletes don’t turn professional, so the athletes won’t have any working experience when they get into the real world. This would give the non-athletes and an advantage in the working world over the athletes. College athletes bring in millions of dollars to their schools. For example, the University of Miami received about 8 million dollars for the Miami Hurricanes playing in the Nokia Sugar Bowl. The apparel also brings in a lot of money by selling hats, footballs, and jerseys. Also the Orange Bowl holds over 60,000 people and they sell tickets at an average of 20 dollars each. The players should...
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