College athletes have been playing with no pay since the NCAA was founded in 1906. I think college athletes should be paid. I feel they deserved to be paid and the NCAA should change the rule about paying players. These athletes are putting their bodies on the line for these cools have not been paid. I think it’s time for the NCAA to stop being greedy with it’s money and pay these young athletes what they deserve. College athletes work hard for their colleges earning millions of dollars for their schools. The players likeness is being used like their jerseys, merchandise, and ticket sales. None of that revenue goes to players to the players only to schools and the NCAA. The Complete Revenue for the NCAA in 2016 was 995.9 million …show more content…
If the NCAA isn’t going to allow players earn money their own way they should be getting paid. This is other rule is basically not allowing the players to not earn any type of money as a college athlete on a scholarship. The unfair part about this rule is that any collegiate athlete on scholarship who violates rule of earning money lose their scholarship. If the NCCA doesn’t change the rule they should at least allow players on scholarship to earn money. Especially when in commercials or other endorsed things they should be able to profit from it. One case is the one of college football kicker Donald De La Haye. He was told by the NCAA to choose between his YouTube channel or his scholarship because he was making money from it. He chose YouTube and was ruled ineligible by the NCAA. This player lost his scholarship because he was earning money from YouTube and I think this is unfair to him and other players in same …show more content…
Im refuting that not all sports in the NCAA offer full ride scholarships only the top sports in colleges get offered full ride scholarships. Other sports get offered a partial scholarship that doesn’t cover everything, so they still must pay. The NCAA paying athletes is most important to the athletes in poverty on a partial scholarship. The wait the four years argument is hard for players that don’t really have the money for college and was depending on athletics. The NCAA have enough money to pay college athletes. In an article by the Huffington Post economists said the NCAA can absolutely afford to pay college athletes. If the NCAA can afford to pay these college players even those on a full ride they why shouldn’t they pay them. This rebuttal is that the excuse of scholarship is not good enough there are many other athletics with athletes without a full
Some feel that by not paying college athletes that college institutions are thereby exploiting their athletes free of charge, which is unfair. However, this article feels that college athletes are paid very favorably by the large amount of money they receive for schooling through scholarships. Also, since college athletes don’t pay to play or go to school they are receiving a free college degree whether or not they decide to stay in school for four years or not. With the training that they receive from professional trainers and nutritionists for a professional controlled diet they save possibly thousands within the 4 years they attend school and perform in collegiate athletics.
Tyson Hartnett of The Huffington Post once said “Even with any type of scholarship, college athletes are typically dead broke.” This quote is regarding a tremendous controversy that has been talked about for the past few years. He talks about whether or not college athletes should be paid for their duties. Despite the fact that college athletes are not professionals, they should most certainly be paid to play for their respective schools due to many factors. These factors include health risks and the income they bring in for their colleges as well as to the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
In summary college athletes should be paid because they are too busy to have a job, the NCAA has enough money and they can put in salary caps so everybody get paid
Over the past 20 years, there has been a major increase in the popularity of college athletes. From 1989 to 2004, there was a 27% increase in ticket revenue (Brown). Despite the rigorous schedules the athletes had, they are still considered just a student. The NCAA cannot continue to allow these schools to work the athletes as much as they do without giving the athletes what they deserve. This is a horrible oppressive system that must be fixed.
Should college athletes receive pay for what they do? You’ve probably seen this pop-up a million times, and thought about it. You’ve probably figured why should they? Aren’t they already receiving benefits from a full-ride scholarship? But then an athlete will get caught up in a scandal like Johnny Manziel, where he signed footballs for money.. then you think well why shouldn’t he receive that money? And you then contradict yourself. But shouldn’t they receive money from outside sources, and then the benefits from the school. Not get a salary from the school just the benefits they’re already receiving, and money from sponsors. Wouldn’t that make sense considering the money they’re making the school? According to an ESPN report Alabama University makes $123,769,841 in total revenue from sports. (College Athletics Revenue) Yes ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY THREE MILLION. Yet an athlete from Alabama can only receive benefits from a scholarship.. That doesn’t seem right. You would want to be payed when the opportunity arises. It should only be fair these players get a piece of the revenue pie, after all they are the ones creating the revenue. The players should be getting benefits to allow them to pay for basic college needs, grow up to be responsible adults, and allow the NCAA to thrive. This would allow for the NCAA to truly thrive as a sporting association.
Throughout the long history of college sports, football in particular, athletes have played squarely off of scholarships or as walk-ons. The NCAA generates millions without paying the athletes a dime. Recent years have caused huge problems in the country with paying athletes for playing. Scandal after scandal has rocked the image of college football and doesn’t appear to be getting better. The NCAA prohibits student-athletes from receiving improper benefits and selling memorabilia for a profit when they should be paying its athletes.
College athletes generate millions of dollars for their schools each year, yet they are not allowed to be compensated beyond a scholarship due to being considered amateurs. College athletes are some of the hardest working people in the nation, having to focus on both school courses and sports. Because athletics take so much time, these student-athletes are always busy. College football and basketball are multi-billion dollar businesses. The NCAA does not want to pay the athletes beyond scholarships, and it would be tough to work a new compensation program into the NCAA and university budgets. College athletes should be compensated in some form because they put in so much time and effort, generating huge amounts of revenue.
First and foremost, college athletes could use money to pay off college expenses and injuries. The student athletes have two main jobs when in college one do good in your sport two get good grades. Since these tasks are the college athletes main job they have no spare time to get a job that actually pays money. Secondly, the NCAA admits that a full scholarship does not cover the basic necessities for college athletes (NCPA.) Though they admit to this, they do nothing to change it. The scholarship will not pay for the food or supplies that the athletes need to use. (NCPA.) Finally, no scholarship will pay for an injury an athlete may attain during the season. The athletes have to use their small amount of money they have saved up to pay for
...multi-billion dollar deals the NCAA has with television networks and how they benefit from commercial sales of their product. Finally, showed the benefits student athletes receive pertaining to top notch tutors and facilities. Even though the student athlete receives a more than the average student they should be entitled to a little more thanks in part for what they bring to the school. College student athletes need to start being paid immediately!
On a podcast from virginiaforusa.com the speaker Doug Merril said " colleges give most of the major athletes huge sums of money through scholarships some of these scholarships can be worth up top 200,000 dollars."Colleges shouldn’t have to pay athletes if they already get money
There are many aspects to an NCAA players eligibility, most of them are disputed against. One of these topics is players getting paid. Numerous questions are raised by this topic. The largest of these questions is “Should NCAA players get paid?.” Surprisingly, the pros for paying the athletes outnumber the reasons for not paying them. The athletes are basically workers for their school, they devote hours to their sport, they take time out of their classes, thus making their scholarships less valuable, and the NCAA teams would be more successful.
A question that has been rising to the surface lately is “should college athletes be paid a salary?” One cannot get on the internet now a day and not see some kind of college sport headline. The world of college sports has been changed greatly the past decade due to college athletes. These athletes make insurmountable amounts of money and an unbelievable amount of recognition for the universities. The athletes that provide and make a ton of revenue for the colleges also spend a huge amount of their time practicing and staying committed to sports, and have to maintain good grades in school which requires quite a bit of overtime. Because college athletes generate massive amounts of revenue and put in massive amounts of personal time for their individual universities, colleges need to financially compensate players for their contributions. The colleges that these superstars represent are reaping all of the benefits of the accomplishments the athletes have, yet the big named players are making nothing from what they do.
Some people say that college athletes get paid by having a scholarship, but if you look at it a different way, scholarships might change your mind. Coaches try to get players who they think have the talent to make them win and to persuade them to come to their school by offering them scholarships. The whole idea behind a scholarship is to lure the athlete into coming to your school. Scholarships are nothing more than a recruitment tactic. They will give you a scholarship as long as you produce for them. It’s all about what you can do for them. Indeed these scholarships pay for tuition, room and board, and books, but these athletes don’t have money for other necessities. The NCAA doesn’t want friends or boosters to offer athletes jobs because they ...
In recent years, the argument about whether or not to pay athletes playing at the college level has become a matter of national debate. Currently, the ruling is that college athletes cannot be paid. This is a stance that should be maintained. Paying athletes to compete at the collegiate level is unfeasible because it would cost colleges too much, influence student’s educational decisions and create an unfair financial atmosphere between athletes and non-athletes.
There are many different reasons why college athletes should be paid. I think that they should be paid for what they do because they work really hard and they are risking getting serious injuries from playing