COM 101-1012 Fall 2017 Speech 1 Preparation Outline Topic: College Athletes Should Be Paid General Purpose: My goal is to show my compassion and prove why college athletes should be paid. Many of my close friends play college sports today on various levels and you can see the struggle that they experience. Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of the issue of college athlete pay. Thesis: I believe that college sports should be considered a profession. Athletes deserve to be paid for their work. College athletics are a critical part of America’s culture …show more content…
and economy. At the end of the day, student-athletes are considered amateurs. College is a stepping-stone to the professional leagues. Attention grabber: The College Athletes Players Association, who is led by former athletes which include a Northwestern football player and other union advocates, argue that the opportunity is still there to make a change in college sports through unionization.
Something that most in the college athletics establishment disfavor. For the Northwestern football players who brought the case, the issue is over. There is no right of appeal from the NLRB’s ruling. The impounded union election ballots the 76 eligible players cast were never counted, and they now will be destroyed with no one knowing the outcome. “We’re here to unionize the Northwestern football team," said Huma, the founder and president of the National College Players Association (NCPA), which puts public pressure on the NCAA to expand the rights and benefits of athletes. …show more content…
(SI) https://www.si.com/college-football/2016/02/24/northwestern-union-case-book-indentured Body Restrictions According to the NCAA regulations an athlete will lose his/her eligibility if they are paid to play; sign a contract with an agent; receive a salary, incentive payment, award, gratuity educational expenses or allowances; or play on a professional team, according to the listing on the NCAA website. (http://www.ncaa.org/amateurism and also the College Bound Student Athlete Guide http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/CBSA.pdf). The NCAA has guidelines to show what amateur athlete is and what the qualifications to become one are. II.
Importance of athletics to schools Some universities are often recognized in the public eye for their sports teams rather than what they offer academically. UNLV is known for their basketball program, and Alabama for their football program. College athletes get paid by having a scholarship, but if you look at it a different way, scholarships might change your mind. (why? What’s the point here?) 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. Coaches get paid substantial amounts to recruit. They make promises about getting these recruits to professional levels, yet there are no monetary incentives. A coach will use the athlete for exposure which will lead to the increase in enrollment, their salary to raise, attendance to rise, and the school to benefit from the money each athlete apart of that program has brought in while the athlete gets very money to live on and a scholarship while the school makes millions of dollars. III. Current events The College Athletes Players Association, which is led by former athletes which include a Northwestern football player and other union advocates, argue that the opportunity is still there to make a change in college sports through
unionization. Paying athletes and unionizing will lead to issues which is in the disfavor among many within the NCAA For the Northwestern football players who brought the case, the issue is over. There is no right of appeal from the NLRB’s ruling. The impounded union election ballots the 76 eligible players cast were never counted, and they now will be destroyed with no one knowing the outcome. “We’re here to unionize the Northwestern football team," said Huma, the founder and president of the National College Players Association (NCPA), which puts public pressure on the NCAA to expand the rights and benefits of athletes. (SI) https://www.si.com/college-football/2016/02/24/northwestern-union-case-book-indentured “Travis Bice,[33] an ex-member of the UNLV basketball team, added that many of the players who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds can not afford a plane ticket to return home for the holidays. NCAA rules even prohibit any financial assistance for situations as those described by Mr. Herrmann and Mr. Bice.[34] It is doubtful that any sanctions would be brought against a non-athlete who accepted a plane ticket home from the university. It seems ironic that athletes who are responsible for generating so much money cannot even partake of some of these simple pleasures.” Murphy, S., & Pace, J. (1994). A plan for compensating student-athletes. Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal, (1), 167. In retrospect, College sports wouldn’t exist without the athletes. IV. Revenues It’s not fair that these hard-working, hard-playing individuals don’t get to benefit from sales attributed directly to them. The NCAA and other organizations will even put a college player’s name on a jersey, hat or other sportswear and never send a penny to the player. The schools will sell jerseys of the player’s number and use their popularity as a tactic to raise sales due to the well-known prowess of the player and even if the name isn’t there. The fans know who the number is and who it belongs to, which makes it a cover up for the schools. “It has been suggested that paying college student-athletes would reduce illegal payments (Adams, 1996; Clemons, 1996; Cooper, 1994; Goldstein, 1996; Isenberg, 1994; Moran, 2000; Steiber, 1991). Schneider, R. G. (2001). COLLEGE STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS ON THE PAYMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDENT-ATHLETES. College Student Journal, 35(2), 232. IV. Why should athletes pursue this? Many people believe college athletes need to be paid because financially, they are being taken advantage of by the NCAA and school systems. These organizations are raking in huge profits from merchandise sales, live events of media Coverage. Unlike the professional leagues, though, the athletes don’t get a cut. College teams may not have the same national weight as some professional ones, but they are just as avidly followed by thousands of adoring fans. Groves, R.M. (2016). A Solution for the Pay for Play Dilemma of College Athletes: A Novel Compensation Structure Tethered to Amateurism and Education. Texas Review Of Entertainment & Sports Law, 17(2), 101-143. Santesteban, C. J., & Leffler, K. B. (2017). Assessing the Efficiency Justifications for the NCAA Player Compensation Restrictions. Antitrust Bulletin, 62(1), 91-111. doi:10.1177/0003603X16688838 Conclusion a. In conclusion, college athletes deserve financial recognition for the merchandise profit they generate, as well as the opportunity to pursue their own financial gains. As athletes, they work hard on the field every day to bring in fans and wins for their school; it’s only fair that they are rewarded for their efforts, at least in some small way.
While college sports play a valuable role on university campuses, it is important for administrators to not lose perspective. That some football coaches earn more than university presidents, for example, is clearly wrong. Essay Task Write a unified, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on college support for sports teams. In your essay, be sure to: • analyze and evaluate the perspectives given • state and develop your own perspective on the issue • explain the relationship between your perspective and those given
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The payment of NCAA student-athletes will deteriorate the value of an education to the athletes. The value of an education for a young man or woman cannot be measured. It is our gate way to success as...
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
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First lets explore the history behind the paying of college athletes. Over the past 50 years the NCAA has been in control of all Div.1, 2 and 3 athletic programs. The NCAA is an organization that delegates and regulates what things college athletes can and can’t do. These regulations are put in place under the label of ‘protecting amateurism’ in college sports. This allots
The athletes at these institutions bring in tons of money into their school every year and deserve compensation. These Universities are exploiting these athletes by not giving them back what they make for their school. The numbers say it all when it comes to the scamming of the athletes by their own schools. In 2004, over 40 schools brought in more than $10 million, with 10 of them bringing in over $30 million. Several athletes around the nation are worth more than $1 million to their school(Brown). Both of these statistics are proof that while these athletes are essential to their schools, they are still kept out of the revenue. Even though these Universities won’t pay their players, the schools still have no problem giving their coaches some money. In 40 U.S. states the head coach of the basketball or football program is the highest paid public official(Edelman). 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)...
College athletes juggle busy academic and practice schedules all throughout their stressful weeks, so why shouldn't they be compensated for their time dedicated to sports? NCAA rules strictly prohibits players from being paid for all the hard work they do to protect “amateurism”, but are you really an amateur putting in over 40 hours a week between practice and other activities? Although students earn a college scholarship, that doesn’t cover living expenses, and access to a degree at the end of their career, players should be paid because schools, coaching staffs and major corporations are profiting off their free labor.
The two revenue sports in college athletics are men's basketball, and football. These teams make millions of dollars, while the individual athlete receives no compensation for their efforts. They are controlled by a governing body (NCAA), which tells them when they work, and when they can't work (Barra). The teams are lead into battle by their coaches, their leaders. These coaches, leaders, partake in an annual payout in upwards of two million dollars, plus endorsement deals. Why then, in a country that...
Today there are over 450,000 college athletes and the National College Athletics Association (NCAA) faces a difficult decision on whether or not college athletes should be paid. Many people believe that they should and many believe they should not. There are several benefits that college’s athletes receive for being a student athlete. Why should they receive even more benefits than their scholarship and numerous perks?
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 ...
Student athletes should not be paid more than any other student at State University, because it implies that the focus of this university is that an extracurricular activity as a means of profit. Intercollegiate athletics is becoming the central focus of colleges and universities, the strife and the substantial sum of money are the most important factors of most university administration’s interest. Student athletes should be just as their title states, students. The normal college student is struggling to make ends meet just for attending college, so why should student athletes be exempt from that? College athletes should indeed have their scholarships cover what their talents not only athletically but also academically depict. Unfortunately, the disapproval resides when students who are making leaps academically are not being offered monetary congratulations in comparison to student athletes. If the hefty amount of revenue that colleges as a conglomerate are making is the main argument for why athletes should be paid, then what is to stop the National Clearinghouse from devising unjust standards? Eventually if these payments are to continue, coaches, organizations, and the NCAA Clearinghouse will begin to feel that “c...
College athletes should be paid! College athletes are often considered to be some of the luckiest students in the world. Most of them receiving all inclusive scholarships that cover all the costs of their education. They are also in a position to make a reputation for themselves in the sporting world preparing them for the next step. The ongoing debate whether student athletes should be paid has been going on for years. These athletes bring in millions of dollars for their respective schools and receive zero in return. Many will argue that they do receive payment, but in reality it is just not true. Costs associated with getting a college education will be discussed, information pertaining to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and benefits student athletes receive. First, I’ll start with costs associated with college and most of all why student athletes should be paid!
In trying to decide what research topic I wanted to use, I took many ideas into thought. I decided that the one idea that interests me most is whether student athletes should be paid or not. This is very intriguing to me since my master’s program is sports management. In order to do this research there must be many ways to use research as well as ideas from other people. This project is a very big topic in today’s discussion amongst sport fans, college administrators, and student athletes themselves. Media has recently put more pressure on this topic as well with the Northwestern decision to unionize as well as pointing out an athletic director gaining an $18,000 supplement for a wrestler at their school winning a national championship. To gain a better idea on this very topic, I would like to do an extensive research on how many variables could affect different people or universities from the idea of student athletes being paid from their university.
For decades there has been a debate on student athletes and their drive to succeed in the classroom. From the very beginning of organized college level athletics, the goal to want to succeed in athletics has forced students to put academics to the back burner. In spite of the goal to want to succeed over a hundred years of attempts to check limits of intercollegiate athletic programs on colleges' academic standards still seems to struggle to this day. This brings to surface one of the most asked questions in sports, “What effect does college sports have on academics and economics?” Herbert D. Simons, Derek Van Rheenen, and Martin V. Covington, authors of “Academic Motivation and the Student Athlete” researched the topic on whether athletics and academics benefit each other. Bryan Flynn, the author of “College Sports vs. Academics” poses the question “Should institutions of higher learning continue to involve themselves in athletic programs that often turn out to be virtual arms races for recruiting talented players who bring big money and prestige, but put academics to the back burner?” Although both authors agree that sports have an impact on an athlete’s academics, the focus of their argument differs.