The water polo sport industry is rather a very lackluster business. Although USA water polo has recently received to some public attention from its silver medal in Beijing, it has remained a forgotten sport. This is perhaps due to the lack of professional teams in the US and/or lack of a strong youth national development programs. Although water polo may be the most intensive and exhausting sports ever conceived, the water polo family always manages to hang on in some shape or form. As a water polo player myself, I see that my pathways to professional success is very limited as there is very narrow road. Many professional water polo players in the US hold second jobs and relegate to a coaching position to fuel their passions. However, the excess of water polo coaches concentrated in the senior high level creates an extreme bottleneck as most water polo seniors graduate without a future scholarship or career in line. The bottleneck traps many professional water polo players in a dire financial situation while leaving behind amateur players. …show more content…
My solution is to give more financial incentives for coaches to work on a collegiate level.
The financial incentive can come in reduced tuition for their children, overall higher paychecks, and management support. There is a lot of resources that high schools put into their existing water polo teams, however, it all goes to waste. By implementing a financial incentive for coaches to coach in college, high schools are left with a higher return on investment. The turnover after high school water polo can actually be balanced. Slowly, colleges will benefit from the expected increase in tuition payments they receive from the high interest polo players and commercial profits from their future fan base. With just the right financial incentives, colleges can tip over the imbalanced scale and potentially increase the interest in the sport of water polo in the US
exponentially. Additionally, governing bodies have to directly answer to the needs of coaches. Many coaches are ferociously proud of their jobs and their team. Good business requires the fueling of individual passions of the coaches. By feeding their pride, administrators can not see not only the physical changes, but the mental changes that follow. The coaches will most likely be more motivated to work harder. In businesses, it is vital that employees are happy, but that usually correlates with the management. This will motivate student athletes and coaches to look out for the future of water polo and not just their own career. This fundamental shift needs to happen now, if the water polo community ever wants a shot to becoming the national sport someday. Water polo with its touch of basketball, wrestling, and football has the potential to be the next super sport. We need to stimulate the flow of money that moves through the water polo system, opening up the high school bottleneck. The financial incentives can have a huge impact in the short and long run. Colleges and high schools all stand to benefit as the sport enjoys more popularity from its rising number of stars. Job satisfaction can go a long way as athletes are motivated to stay in the sport and plant the the seeds of growth. This way, we can save and make profitable the sport that thousands of us on the west coast hold dearly.
Sports provide a nice source of money for the college but some of the money is given to the coaches where coaches are given much more money than professors that do make an effort to teach students. The money can be potentially be used to promote more departments and of the like, but to see that coaches get paid more than professors, it makes a statement of how sports are more important than education. Colleges are made to educate students and ensure that education are the highest quality valued, but to have professors who are the basis of education being paid less than coaches. Colleges are made to enhance student’s education and should not focus too much on its sports
Paying for talent reduces the sport to a job instead of a skillful game. Not only can the school have problems, but also the sport. “College coaches are usually unpaid as well” (Furth 1). Therefore, it would not be reasonable to pay athletes and leave coaches with no currency. Furthermore, if athletes were to get a salary, university departments will be prosecuted and charged (Furth 1). On the other hand, even though athletes want to receive pay: it can create lawsuits by breaking the NCAA pay cap (Furth 2). If paying athletes can lead to serious complications like so, there probably will be no activity programs. In other words, if any sport programs are no further at those colleges, coaches could lose their jobs and maybe athletes could lose their chance to going pro or possibly lose their
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, has said that the high revenue sports subsidize less profitable sports like lacrosse, soccer, and hockey (Majorol). The consensus is if universities, with vast amounts of funding, start offering a play and get paid initiative that the lesser colleges would struggle to compensate, from a declining recruiting class, and their less popular athletic programs would slowly fizzle to nonexistence. Hypothetically, as athletes recognize that they can get an education, play college sports, and also get paid like an employee they will start transitioning away from the lesser schools while creating a pool of players in the top schools. Not only would that turn out as a horrible situation for minor schools, but this also means that college sports’ would not be exiting to watch when the top four schools fight it out, in the tournament each year. Eventually, ratings and ticket sales would go down due to the loss of unpredictability in games. College athletics are only a portion of negatives that come out of paying student athletes, the athletes themselves are also in virtue of
Many sports people say that if the NCAA pays the athletes to play, it will encourage them to stay in school longer. The money that the athletes will receive at the next level will be bigger than any amount the NCAA can afford to pay them. Athletes argue that the NCAA and ESPN are making billions of dollars off of them to air their games; why can’t they get compensation for it. This argument is valid, but no matter what amount, free education is far more valuable than any financial amount. You’re talking about giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to
Despite the strength of the reasons as to why student-athletes should not be paid, there are certain problems with the current NCAA system which can and should be cured. The gap between a full scholarship and the cost of attendance should be covered by the academic institution, especially when a student athlete does not qualify for a loan. Such a policy will go a long way in ensuring that student-athletes are not leaving school to become professional athletes because they cannot pay their bills. Academic institutions should be able to provide at least that much for their athletes. Ultimately, this is a form of payment, but it is not the type of payment that some individuals are advocating. The primary purpose of these institutions is to educate; it is the coach's job to teach, and not just in terms of the sport a student athlete plays. These schools should facilitate the educations of student-athletes through scholarship grants, but not through a system of salaries dependent on supply and demand, which ultimately detracts a student-athlete from picking a school, and detracts them from attending a school, for the right reasons.
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Once again, after a successful season, Shadle Park was defeated by a Big 9 school in the first game of the regional tournament. This reoccurring event has led many to believe that the four year football program puts GSL students at a disadvantage compared to other districts. A junior high school football program would not only increase the competitiveness of the students but also have more important consequences.
Confucius once said, "he who does not do well is less guilty than he who pushes too hard." People found that competitive sports are often physically straining and it is detrimental to proper emotional development. This blows away the misconception that competitive sports create a healthy and engaging atmosphere for kids. This and an overly strong obsession with winning create a toxic mix for the child’s wellbeing. People have begun to realize the world of competitive may be doing more harm than good for their children. Parents have also begun to notice that competitive sports often injure their children severely and also make the child feel left out, which in turn is detrimental to the child 's emotional health. Therefore, competitive sports
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