...private athletics, recruitment is the largest issue. Also, athletes in public schools start sports a lot later than private schools. Splitting schools and the way you split them has been talked about my tons of experts. Colleges could also be affected by decisions made. Funding is another large issue that comes about in the debate. Comparing enrollment is a very controversial argument as well. The last argument is private schools have to travel very far during tournament time. In all, private schools should not be in the same athletic division as public schools. Recruitment is the process of finding the best individuals academically and athletically to attend your school that may come from another district. This is such a hot topic because private schools can recruit top athletes and top students, and public schools cannot recruit. Public schools have to accept any athlete or student in their district-they have no control over their enrollment, as private schools do. Individuals are attending private schools for sports, not academics. “That’s why I keep telling members we can’t look at it as a public vs. private school issue,” he said. “We have to look at an open enrollment (recruitment) too.” (“Wisconsin Class War”). To solve the recruitment, experts...
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...not getting paid enough to feed your family. Many college athletes today face a severe lack in economic benefits due to the restrictions to uphold the amateur status enforced by the NCAA. The removing of the restrictions, improving of the educational experience, and the sufficient funding would constitute the paying of college athletes. The restrictions to uphold the amateur status regarding the economic benefits of college athletes set by the NCAA are considered unjust by many. The database article “College Athletes Should Be Paid” by Eitzen contends that athletes make money for their universities, but they do not receive any compensation for their thirty-to-forty hours a week that they spend with their sport on top of attending classes. Many college athletes’ image is also being used as a way to make money for the universities for which they play. For example, selling the athlete’s jersey number...
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...All over the United States, seniors graduate high school looking forward to the next step of their lives at college. For some, they reserve the privilege of receiving large amounts of scholarship money for athletics; for others, they receive a much lesser monetary award for grade point average and ACT or SAT scores. All over the country, college students are praised for being great athletes but are expected to do less academically. For many reasons, collegiate athletes should not be awarded so much individual scholarship money or appraisal for being athletic. Every year, the recruitment of collegiate athletes takes time and effort because coaches have to carefully hand pick the most talented players to represent their university. There are...
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...College athletes do not earn any pay for playing a sport. Student athletes should earn pay for their ability and devotion to their sport. College athletes devote many hours of hard work, they bring revenue toward that goes to the college, and it gives the athletes a taste of financial responsibility. College athletes devote most of their life to get better at the sport they play. Time is key for the life of a student athlete. Athletes are not offered free time while playing a sport and when they do they are studying. According to Dave Anderson of Listland, “A college athlete’s schedule includes a full-time college schedule that they must maintain if they college athlete’s schedule includes a full-time college schedule that they must maintain...
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...There is a huge amount of money being made off college sports and has led to some questions to whether or not student-athletes should be paid for their efforts. As Forbes' Chris Smith wrote, CBS and Turner Broadcasting make more than $1 billion off the games, "thanks in part to a $700,000 ad rate for a 30-second spot during the Final Four." Athletic conferences receive millions of dollars in payouts from the NCAA when their teams advance deep into the tournament. Ditto for the coaches of the final squads standing. (US News and World Report, 2014) Unfortunately, the players don’t ever get to see any of that money, even though they risk career-ending injuries each time they step out onto the court, field or rink. In March of last year, Louisville Cardinals Kevin Ware suffered a gruesome broken leg, he successfully had surgery but it is still uncertain whether or not he will return. A group of former players filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging that student athletes should be entitled to some of the money the NCAA makes off of using their names and likenesses on merchandise such as jerseys, video games, Ads. Etc. If college athletes were allowed to accept money it would encourage good grades, make a good incentive program, and help with recruitment of players. Up until now the debate over whether a college athlete should be compensated during their sports career was just a debate; this has recently turned into more than that. In my opinion compensating the players would encourage...
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...College Athletes Should Be Compensated For many colleges and universities athletics programs are a major source of revenue for its institutions. These institutions rely on their athletes to keep the notoriety and popularity of their institutions name. Since, college’s athletes are supposed to be the best at the sports they play, why are they not being compensated? Some might say a student athlete’s scholarship for a free education is compensation enough. However, there are some that say the amount of money institutions make from its athletes is so great that student athletes should be given a kickback. Student athletes should be compensated for the time and performance they give to help their college and universities uphold their reputations. Certainly, both sides of this debate have made very compelling arguments in support of their views. There are those who believe that college athletes should be compensated somehow or be given a stipend for extra money to cover the costs or living that are not provided with their scholarships (Nocera No pg.). Most college scholarships fall on average about $3,500 short of the total cost of attending college each year (Nocera No pg.). Many student athletes come from low-income families and rely heavily on athletic scholarships to get them into a quality school (Burgett No pg.). Although student athletes are given a full scholarship to their school of choice these scholarships do not provide the money necessary for entertainment, travel expenses...
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...entity. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament receives more advertising dollars and has higher ratings then the Super Bowl and the World Series. This paper discusses various other papers all dealing with different aspects of this NCAA entity and the cultural, economic and social impact the NCAA has on the modern education system. These topics include an analysis of NCAA tournament broadcasts and the influence the TV industry has on what people view, the impact of facilities to recruit high quality athletes, as well as a cost-benefit analysis of university’s scholarship system. These issues, among others, affect every college student, not just student-athletes as well as tax-payers, professors and alumni. The Power of the NCAA As a father of a high school student-athlete that is being recruited by Division I universities I felt the need to research the process and the entities involved at a deeper level. The five articles I chose helped me understand the recruitment process and the logic behind it as well as the influence the athletic departments have over every school. Division I athletic departments are either the largest or second largest buildings on each campus as far as operations (Southall et al.). One major concern with the amount of influence the NCAA has in the community is that after their big national tournament in 2006, a representative of the U.S. House of Representatives, Bill Thomas wrote a letter to the NCAA’s President Myles Brand questioning...
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...Some athletes dream of continuing their careers in college, but some never get that chance. Competing at the next level is a very exciting journey. For some kids playing a sport in college is the only way they can afford an education. The big controversial issue is should college athletes be paid. This quote from Elissa Cordrey is very meaningful to college athletics because it isn’t all about the money: If the child is playing for the sake of a scholarship, and not for love of the game, be careful, she warned. Keep your eyes wide open. It's not high school athletics. In some ways, it's really exciting. But if your child's not passionate, you are going to have a lot of teary phone calls’” (Holland, Kelley Holland, and John W. Schoen). The dedication and passion athletes need to play...
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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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...On top of exceptional students getting denied, less qualified students such as legacies, athletes, and minorities are being accepted into prestigious universities, contributing to the flawed system. Rather than admitting students based on their potential to succeed and personal attributes alone, universities are often admitting slightly inferior candidates simply because their parents attended the school or they want to increase their diversity population. In A is For Admission, Michele Hernandez mentions some of these discrepancies when explaining that legacies, students who have a parents that attended the university, have a forty percent acceptance rate into Dartmouth in comparison with the typical ten percent acceptance rate (183). Additionally, Hernandez describes athletes have a lower minimum GPA and ACT/SAT than the admitted class (172) and African Americans and Hispanics have a much higher acceptance rate whereas students from Asian descent have increased difficulty getting admitted into Ivy League schools (Hernandez 198)....
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...Ethics in College Athletics: How Far Does Winning Go John Williams 27 September 2013 Abstract Introduction Whether it is ultra-competitive collegiate athletes, the need for university programs for funding, or the drive for a championship, the perceived need to win is ever increasing in today’s collegiate sport programs. This perceived need plays a large role in the perceived successfulness of the program. In today’s collegiate world, more wins equates to more money for the program, more recognition for coaches and players, as well as increased awareness of the university as a whole. These benefits to winning are the drive behind many collegiate programs to get a step ahead of the competition, however, when does this drive and the pressure to win outweigh the coach’s and program’s code of ethics. The collegiate world has recently seen many different scenarios where the need to win has resulted in the poor decision to throw away one’s ethics for the benefit of personal gain or the win of single game. Each of these scenarios is a culmination of poor personal decisions, poor program management, and poor character development. These scenarios present themselves as learning experiences as well as opportunities to educate the future leaders of our sporting world. Review of Literature The term ethics is defined as, “moral principles that govern a person’s or group’s behavior” (Meriam-Webster, 2013). By this definition, there is a code of conduct that guide...
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...reduced by anger management Air bag restraint systems reduce traffic fatalities Animal rights movement can prevent scientific advancement Athletes are good role models Bilingual education deserves support Body decoration is not a health risk Bullying causes school violence Censoring the internet violates free speech Charter schools should receive tax support Children's Internet Protection Act is unconstitutional College athletes and professional sports recruitment Companion animals enhance the lives of disabled individuals Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects intellectual property on the net Eating disorders are a widespread problem Faith based initiatives should be funded by the government Gender equity in sports is essential for female athletic programs to succeed Genetically altered food should have warning labels Good Samaritan laws are necessary to protect citizens Internet 2 (Internet product enhancements) Juvenile boot camps are safe and effective Juvenile criminals should be treated as adults Libraries should not regulate internet access Mandatory sentencing is unfair and should be abolished Parental violence in youth sports should be controlled Prayer in the public schools should be encouraged Prescription drugs cost too much Recycling sewage sludge into compost is a health hazard Student athletes should be tested for drugs Suburban sprawl threatens America's wildlife Television violence causes societal violence Therapeutic use of...
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...or athletics. It states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance" (Storm 320). Before Title IX, few opportunities existed for female athletes. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which was created in 1906 to format and enforce rules in men’s football but had become the ruling body of college athletics, offered no athletic scholarships for women and held no championships for women’s teams. Furthermore, facilities, supplies and funding were lacking. As a result, in 1972 there were just 30,000 women participating in NCAA sports, as opposed to 170,000 men (Simon 92). Title IX applies to educational institutions that receive any federal funds and prohibits discrimination in all educational programs and activities. Athletic programs are considered educational programs and activities. Title IX gives women athletes the right to equal opportunity in sports in educational institutions that receive federal funds, from elementary schools to colleges and universities (Poertner 92). There are three parts to Title IX as it applies to athletics programs: (1) effective accommodation of student...
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...Assignment Five College Athletes and Compensation Professor Adam Lawrence Strayer University June 9, 2013 PART I: PROBLEM The goal of this paper is to focus on evidence that college athletes, specifically, football players should be compensated for the talents they demonstrate on the field; for many reasons. It is well documented that college presidents, coaches, athletic directors often think of athletics as the “front porch” of their campuses (Weaver, 2011), as it relates to college revenues. Weaver further maintains that college athletes, especially football players, are needed to generate the revenues to build both and support a winning football team, and athletics department. And historically colleges rely on ticket sales, game programs, and advertising revenues, to do so. Additionally, coaches’ salary and facility renovations also are factor in terms of colleges and universities needing to generate revenues as well. But before the former can be brought to fruition colleges must first persuade the most talented athletes to their school. What criteria do colleges and universities utilize when recruiting athletes with regard to talent, academics, finances, and student population? Additionally, what perks are colleges and universities offering these athletes to entice them at a minimum to the said front porch? Let’s start by first exploring how colleges and universities generate revenues. First, warning sign (problem) is that billions in annual revenues...
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...throughout this book Suggs perspective of Title IX discusses the many supportive and triumphant ways this law help encourage the partitions in sports for women. From Suggs he suggest “the law encouraged women's sports to develop in the hypercompetitive, highly commercialized model that evolved in men's sports" (page 3). Although there are good values with Title IX, there are also some down sides and tragedy to this law not in favor for women that Suggs also includes his disappointment with the NCAA. Throughout the book Suggs suggest that college sports are often distinguished in two separate systems. One of the systems is mainly in favor for men that entail the commercialization of male sports with illegitimate recruitment, cash payouts...
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