...Also college sports take up a lot of time which minimizes a chance for internship opportunities, being able to get a job, and an overall college experience. In most jobs you are required a certain amount of hours of experience or an internship. It is impossible for these athletes to get the chance to do those opportunities with their crazy schedules. Also eighty percent of college students work jobs to support themselves with food and clothes, while away from home. Many college athletes have complained of going to bed hungry because they do not have enough money for food. Other students who don’t have a job in college are supported mostly by their parents and family members sending them money for help. Likewise, if these athletes don’t have time for a job and 86% of them are below the poverty line when they...
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...Should college Athletes be able to leave after their first season? AG: Many of us in this room, including myself either watch college sports or have a college that the cheer for, but what if that star player never came to that school because they weren’t required to? ID: Today I want to talk about the pros and the cons of athletes being able to leave after their first season. Ethos: Doing research about this topic has lead me to the conclusion that there are a lot of pros but also very many cons of leaving early. Preview: Today I will be telling you the pros and the cons of leaving early and if I think they should leave early. I would like to talk about the pros about leaving college first. It allows great athletes the ability to earn a living faster and provide for their families. They could but a lot of that money in the bank and start to save money for when they retire. The second pro is that it prevents an injury to occur in college, many college athletes feel that if they stay in college they could get injured and put their professional career at risk. If they decided to leave early, they will get paid great money and benefits. Lastly they would be able to save money and go and get a degree if they wanted because they have the money now. Now looking at the cons of leaving college early. If the student athlete doesn’t stay in college they won’t secure their future. For those fortunate enough to be an elite in their sport, receiving a degree is a good way to insure...
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...As the star college football player runs on to the field for the biggest game of the year, he sees everyone wearing shirts, poster, signs, and tickets with his face on it, and yet he doesn’t make a dime of the profit. College student athletes already receive much of a free education through paid scholarships (Mendelson) and at the same time the universities make millions off these athletes, but the athletes don’t receive any of it.The issue deserves attention and is important because people can’t agree on whether it is right or wrong to pay college student athletes. Even though paying college student athletes has a few pros, most students already receive a free education, athlete payment would not be equal, and the main focus of college is to receive an education. Most student athletes receive a free education already. If they are a good enough student athletes, they receive large sums of money in scholarships to top tier schools to get an education (Mendelson). Receiving a free education is essentially already a form a payment and getting into a top school gives them an opportunity they otherwise might not have without sports. Studies have shown that some universities will spend up to 90,000 dollars on some student athletes a year (Mendelson), thus making it apparent much of their education is free....
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...Should College Athletes be Paid? Why should college athletes be paid or not? In this article it says, “Big time college football and basketball programs generate billions a year in TV and marketing contracts, tickets sales, and merchandising.” Why I choose this topic is because If the college players don't bring any money for the TV , tickets, and merchandising then that is wrong. They should, at least, have 10% of what they sell that has the player's last name on it .I am on the pro side why I am is because If a person buys an item that has something to do with them, then they should be paid a little amount of what the regular price is of the item. I am going to tell you a few Pros about college players getting paid. First of all, in the text it says, “ Big time college football and basketball programs generate billions a year.” My question is how does the franchise make billions a year. They make billions a year from the players who, when the games and consistently bowl games and don't even bring a little bit poor because people consider they are amateurs and they will do something poor with the money like use it on things that...
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...Running head: PROS AND CONS Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes Mark Dunkley PEP 461 Student The College at Brockport Abstract This paper weighs in the pros and cons for the compensation of Division I college student athletes. This paper also introduces a plan that would allow monetary compensation of college athletes in the United States. A survey was distributed to 14 males of the Suny College at Brockport basketball team Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes The exploits of student-athletes in sports have variously been advanced as generating a lot of dollars in forms of revenues for their respective institutions, which has generally raised the question as to why they shouldn’t be compensated for their sporting prowess. Student-athletes generate tens of millions of dollars for their respective athletic departments and ideally then should be reimbursed. However, as per the guidelines of the National Collegiate Athletics Associations (NCAA), athletes are not supposed to receive any commercial use of their personas and likenesses and are indeed not expected to gain any monetary compensation for their sporting engagements. This has generally been interpreted to mean that they cannot enter into agreements for endorsements in their sporting activities as has been the case with professional engagements. Instead, students are expected to benefit from the payment for tuition fees from their sporting activities...
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...1. What is your intake on college athletes getting paid? 2. If any, are there any benefits of paying college athletes? 3. What are the cons of paying athletes? 4. If they did decide to pay athletes, how do you think the process of paying the athletes work? 5. How would paying athletes affect the NCCA? 6. Would the wealthiest programs get all of the best talent? 7. How would it affect professional sports like the NBA, MLB, NFL, and MLS? 8. Would players stay in college longer instead of going pro? 9. Would it be fair? 10. What would you to if it did happen? Compiling sources (due May 24-26): List the specific sources that you are using for your research. For each, you will describe the information from the source. You will need to answer these questions for each source: What new information did you learn? Was the information helpful in adding to your knowledge about the topic? Why or why not? Would you recommend this source/site to someone else doing research on your topic? Why or why not? Source 1: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-08-31-pros-cons-pay_x.htm New Information you learned: I learned why it is good to pay college athletes and why it is bad to pay them. Your opinion of the website as to whether it helped you to further your understanding of the topic and if you would recommend it: Source 2: http://www.thepostgame.com/commentary/201103/paying-college-athletes-whats-right-amount New Information you learned: I learned about controversy...
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...07/09/10 The debate of whether college athletes receive special treatment has been an ongoing issue for decades now. College is a very difficult task to complete, especially when trying to balance both sports and academics. With that being said, education should be their main priority. College athletes should have all of the same responsibilities as non-athletes as far as academics are concerned. So should college athletes be exempt from normal class? The athletics department is considered to be one of the most revenue making departments in many colleges. Therefore student athletes are many times allowed special treatment with regard to minimum school requirements. While I do understand that athletics are a very important part of the college experience, it should not be the main priority. The priority of a college is to provide students the opportunity to earn not just a degree but a skill that will help them to succeed in the real world. The cost of living is very high and just keeps getting higher, for a person to be competitive in todays job market it is almost necessary to have a college degree. The number of athletes that actually turn professional are few. Most athletes don’t go pro after college so they should make academics their number one priority in order to get the full educational experience. Those that do make it to pro are at high risk career ending injuries on a daily basis. That is why it is really important that student athletes be encouraged to put academics...
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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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...includes classroom and clinical-experience based education. Once the student graduates from an accredited college or university athletic training program, they are eligible to take the certification examination to become a certified athletic trainer. State licensure is most respected and rigorous. 39 of the 50 states have licensure for athletic...
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...Ethical issues regarding the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports In the history of 20th century sports, specifically in the post World War 2 era, there has been an ever increasing use of performance enhancing drugs in all avenues of sport. Sports have become money making machine for both athletes and big business and the “win at all costs” attitude which has permeated itself into all aspects of professional and college level athletics. Winners make money, losers don’t. The temptation of fame, notoriety and million dollar contracts in all venues of sport is a lure for many athletes. Elite professional athletes are worshiped in today’s society. This paper will elaborate on the use of performance enhancing drugs in the sporting world and the associated sports ethical issues. It is a majority belief in all sporting circles that the “true” spirit of sportsmanship does not allow any aspect of performance enhancing drugs. There are several arguments both in favor and against the use of performance enhancing drugs which will be presented and discussed in this paper. While addressing this ethical issue, we need to define the term ethics. Ethics can be defined as the socially accepted norms and values. These norms and values are varied from society to society and are based on culture and tradition. Ethics also could be defined as the unsaid, un-written and understood laws that prevail in a society. Ethics also cover what is right and what is wrong in society and teaches...
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...Should College Athletes Get Paid? College athletes should be paid for playing at the college level. This topic is interesting to me because it has been a debatable topic for a long time. College athletes deserve to get a pay check because they are still responsible to keep their grades up while playing and training for football. They work harder than the pros because they have more of a motivation to get to the higher profession than someone who is already there. They can use that money to help support their families. The coaches are getting paid but they don’t play a sport or endure in a sport. The NCAA is making a profit out of them. In all honesty, the college athletes are one of the most hardest working athletes that don’t get paid. College...
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...Most athletes dream of becoming professionals in any sport they do, but they know to get there they have to go through many steps. One of those steps is playing in college, and most likely getting a full ride to that college. College sports are the closest thing there is to the professional level. But one controversy in college sports is whether or not the athletes should get paid. There are very many different opinions on this topic and they point out the pros and cons of giving college athletes allowances. In this next section you will learn some facts about college athletes. College athletes are considered an amateur level athlete that is not paid in salary but provided for by scholarships. The average cost that the scholarships cover for the student’s school is $200,000, for food, housing, tutors, travel, tuition and books. Most college football players spend 43.3 hours a week to their sport. That is 3.3 more hours than a typical American’s work hours a week. The NCAA just claims the athletes as students, even though the NCAA games and tournament schedule’s cause the students to miss class for nationally recognized games televised to bring in revenue. Meanwhile, the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament affects more than six days of classes. At some schools, the road to the NCAA men’s basketball championship may require student-athletes to miss up to a quarter of all class days during their spring semester. The NCAA currently produces nearly $11 Billion in annual revenue...
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...Athletes as Role Models Learning Team A SOC/105 August 26, 2013 Michelle Gardner Athletes as Role Models The effect of professional athletes has always played a big role in society. Talented, young, charming, women and men smashing world records on the field or court seem to be natural role models for our youth. These athletes and their behaviors and actions are so closely observed and mimicked by the youth it makes you ask the question should they really be considered role models? Athletes throughout history have always been considered role models for young children with a gift for sports. There have been many misdeeds that have occurred that makes us question whether athletes deserve to be considered role models. Conversely, athletes make good role models for several reasons such as promoting physical fitness, educational success, self-confidence, and a strong work ethic. The role of being an athlete is a good goal to reach in itself especially with the obesity epidemic that we are currently having in America. Athletes must have a strong work ethic and devote a large portion of their personal time to training in order to become a professional. Athletes also need to display a high degree of self confidence in order to be successful. With the exception of a very small few most athletes do go to college, and are expected to be successful, which promotes children to seek further education (Williams, 2011 ). A current...
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...NCAA(National Collegiate Athletic Association) is not paying college athletes, which will become a problem sooner or later if the NCAA does not pay college athletes. Many people think that paying college athletes will bring some problems to universities/colleges, such as offering players more money.However it would be unfair for less appealing and wealthy schools because they do not have as much power or money to recruit the best players. Though people do not understand that college football is for stronger players compared to weaker ones. If the players are dedicated to playing for their future, then paying college athletes would prepare them for the NFL(National Football League) and the players who don’t make it still help their team get better. Although most players in college do not make it to the NFL, every player on their teams help win and helps other players get better so everyone should receive a piece of the action....
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...Over the past couple of years there have been many arguments over whether college football players should be paid or not. Football athletes puts in lot of hours in practicing day after day, week after week, for their colleges or with television contracts and football deals alone, the athletes are really bringing in the money for the colleges and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). I guess you could argue that a football scholarship isn’t enough to compensate, but are they? But, I say they should be paid. I believe they should get a salary paid for a several reasons. But there are many pros and cons to this debate, views that are shared by many. Football players plays the game simply because he loves it. Some football plays...
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