Today, sports are no more inconsequential dawdling, sports are a business, and school sports are the equivalent. Division I school sports give a monstrous wellspring of universities’ compensation. The school gets money from ticket bargains, television contracts, and diversion related stock, nearby various distinctive amusements related wage makers. The contenders on the other hand, get […]
How would you like it if you were working your dream job and not getting paid? I don’t think you would. A federal judge found that the NCAA’s rules about compensation violate antitrust law and that athletes may be compensated for education-related expenses beyond current caps, a middle ground of sorts in a case that […]
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Get startedCollege and professional sports associations have many players on their rosters. Most people on college teams are looking to advance their careers into the pros. In professional sports associations like the NFL, the MLS, or the MLB players make a contract with the team that they are participating or playing with. When a player signs […]
Is the NCAA president scamming players, do you think NCAA players should get paid? Patrick Hruby says College football has the money to pay players, the playoffs proves it. (December 30, 2017).Is it true that the NCAA is ripping of the athletes? Being a college student-athlete is a full-time job, bouncing between the weight room, […]
Imagine being a student-athlete, it’s a full time job, bouncing between weight rooms, the court/field, classes, and film sessions. College athletics are extracurricular activities, but the schedules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournaments require an extended period in which student-athletes must miss school. Not only do they miss class, but they are absent […]
The purpose of this paper will be to show you why college athletes should be paid Participation in college sports should be considered a profession and athletes compensated for their work. Paying college athletes is not about being fair, but it is a start. The NCAA rules are so binding, fairness is many years and […]
Get in the shoes of a student athlete, imagine waking up around five o’clock in the moming daily, going to practice for three hours in the morning before going to class, having little to no time eat lunch before it’s time to run and get ready for practice for another five hours. Then, once again, […]
At the time when NCAA was formed, it committed itself in salary to learners who participated in its operations. With time, NCAA was no longer recognizable as before. Nowadays, the organization has reverted in taking full advantage of emerging trends in sports e.g. new media. As per today’s figures, sports draw up to $11 billion […]
There have been ongoing arguments over the past decade of whether college athletes should be paid to play. Many argue that they do not have time to get real jobs because the requirements for the sport that they take part in are far too demanding Others cite that these athletes are provided full scholarships to […]
Money has become such an important part of our everyday lives that everyone wants a piece of it. In this case we are talking about NCAA college athletes. Being an athlete myself, if I can play a sport that I’m good at and get payed at the same time my life would be set. Seriously, […]
Imagine a person bringing home nearly $500,000.00 per year at minimum. A common question might be “What is in the world does this person do for a living to make so much money?” It’s natural for a person to think that the individual with this salary is making significant contribution to society. However, the people […]
College athletes should be paid to play for many reasons. First of all, college athletes aren’t allowed to work. How are they going to pay for all the necessary expenses if they come from poor families? This also leads to players accepting illegal money, cars, clothes, etc. College athletes bring in millions of dollars through […]
Playing a sport in college: Are you an athlete or an employee? There is a heated debate over whether or not college students should be paid for playing a sport when they are generating revenue for the school; as millions of viewers watch these sports on television every day. Many will argue that athletes are […]
Over the recent decades, Division I athletic programs have become more and more like businesses in which the job of the athletes, is to generate earnings for the university. And many people argue because college sports has such a large time commitment, that the athletes deserve some compensation for the revenue they provide. The college […]
The history of high school and college basketball is a complex but amazing journey until now. College sports began in the late 1850’s but high school basketball began in 1898. Here are the big questions, are student athletes being paid and should they be allowed to reclass? Reclassifying is registering with a graduating class later […]
10,800,000,000. Ten point eight billion dollars. I had to write it both ways because I had trouble reading that number out loud, and you probably will too. Think about the amount of zeros in that number. With that amount of money you can buy 74 Bugatti hyper-cars, stay 5,731 nights in the United States America’s […]
College athletes are undoubtedly some of the best working people in the universe. College football players are working hard and winning games. They don’t get paid for it. College football players should get paid for playing the sport they sign up for because it would attract better athletes who stay in the programs longer, they […]
Should College Athletes Be Paid Collegiate student-athletes spend countless hours a week training and competing in athletic competition while attending classes and studying. As you know, President Emmert, the push to put in place a salary besides to scholarships for student-athletes has sky rocketed in recent years due to monumental television contracts worth billions of […]
College athletes dedicate their college careers to being in engaged in their academics and in their sports. So, should college athletes be paid? Some would say that college athletes should not be paid considering that they are in college and participating in spirts is something that they decided to do. On the other hand, some […]
As college athletics grows and continues to bring large financial gain to universities and corporate sponsors, the debate over paying college athletes continues to grow. But while the debate between supporters and opponents increases across the country, the college athletics governing body has not acted on the matter. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has […]
Should college athletes be paid? Many have different opinions on this subject. Some feel that a fully paid scholarship is enough for these talented individuals. But for the athletes its not enough Allen Sack, a former football player said: No matter their economic circumstances, college scholarship athletes, almost universally agree that there needs to be […]
Along with the discussion of whether some or all college athletes should be paid, many people are unaware of the other policies that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has in place to control the student-athletes and their college experience. The NCAA has a mandated system where if students want to play a sport in […]
A topic of much hot debate is should the players that work themselves tirelessly every season should they be paid. The NCAA rakes in billions for football playoffs and march madness but none of the players get any cuts of it, even though they’re the ones competing in it. Athletes are the sole reason people […]
From a fan’s perspective, football has always been an exciting sport that creates a fun, intense, dynamic atmosphere. It gives family and friends a chance to bond over friendly rivalries and cheering on their favorite teams. The tailgates, the delicious party food, the screams, the cheers, all make up an exciting environment. Most people never […]
Imagine playing for one of the largest revenue sports leagues in the world and not receive any pay for their actions on the field. The argument has been fought over for a long time whether college athletes are entitled to payment for their participation in their sport. While collegiate athletes receive scholarships for their education […]
The subculture of Student-Athletes within the daily scheme of academics, there are a variety of subcultures existing within the student body. One of those subcultures is student-athletes. The student-athletes group is comprised of individuals participating in sports while taking classes at a college or high school. A common goal which unites them is the determination […]
College athletes should be creating cash in how connected with the sports that they play. It doesn’t create plentiful sense for them to not see (related to managing money) gain from what they’re probably getting to be doing for a living. Sports is one in every of the best standard businesses within the whole world, […]
College football is one of America’s favorite pastimes, but in the south it is more of a lifestyle. Whether it is the hard hits, 90,000 screaming fans, or just the thrill that comes from watching a game something about it makes fans tune in. However, in the midst of touchdowns, interceptions, and big plays one question hangs like a cloud over college football. Should the players be sharing in the millions upon millions they help make for their schools? This issue is a hotly debated, because of its impact not only nationwide, but in the states themselves. It impacts almost everywhere college football is played, but in Louisiana where football is almost its own religion the potential consequences of change are severe. The debate would not only affect the players and Universities, but could even bring up legal issues regarding title IX. The stakeholders that paying players could impact are current and former players, EA sports, the Universities themselves, and proponents of title IX.
Some of the main proponents for paying athletes are former players. A key example of this is Ed O’Bannon, a former basketball star, and quarterback Sam Keller. During their collegiate careers O’Bannon and Keller both earned MVP awards, and are retroactively going through the legal system attempting to get compensation they believe they earned. The main targets of O’Bannon’s lawsuit are the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the governing body of college athletics, and video game maker EA Sports, and seek “money the NCAA earns from licensing former players images” (Elias). O’Bannon claims that players deserve some of the money for the work they put in, and that the NCAA makes “millions of dollars off the sweat and grind of student athletes” (Elias). O’Bannon’s lawsuit is one example where former athletes, no longer under the NCAA, speaking up, and attempting to raise awareness for the lack of compensation players get for the effort they give. O’Bannon’s lawsuit impacts EA sports, which directly correlates to the Louisiana universities.
As a direct result of the lawsuit EA sports will no longer be making their NCAA Football videogame series. EA sports paid Louisiana FBS Universities, Louisiana State University, University of Louisiana Lafayette, University Louisiana Monroe, Tulane University, and Louisiana Tech University, to use their respective logos and images. The money lost by the institutions is not much to larger universities like LSU, but for the others it is much needed money now gone. In addition, EA sports has a division of their business located on LSU’s campus, and this Louisiana connection makes the impact EA felt from canceling their videogame critical to the state.
Alongside former players and EA sports, reporters question the fairness of the situation. Knight Kiplinger addresses the issue in his magazine Personal Finance. He says that clearly the situation is unethical, and athletes should be provided “fair compensation,” but the implementation of this scenario would cause problems and raises other questions (Kiplinger). For example, should other athletes be paid? However, the main problem that reporters and sports writers find is the NCAA itself. Louisiana’s relation to the NCAA goes to the top. Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA, was formerly the Athletic Director of LSU. Chris Smith discusses the “hypocrisy” of the NCAA in his Forbes.com article. The article mentions situations like former Marine sergeant Steven Rhodes.
Rhodes returned after serving five years hoping to play tight end for Middle Tennessee State. However, because he participated in a recreational league overseas the NCAA said he would not be eligible. It was only after public pressure that they reversed the ruling. Furthermore, Dez Bryant, a former Oklahoma state receiver, was suspended the remaining 9 games of his senior season after slipping up and saying the wrong thing to investigators, because he was afraid he had done something wrong (Smith). Smith also says that athletes should be paid, but under the current administration it is “laughable” to think anything will change (Smith).
Although former players and some reporters believe that players should be paid, but others say the scholarship is more than enough compensation. An article from the Star-Tribune in Wyoming states the typical football player stays for 5 years, and that comes out is well over $100,000. In addition, the players are being “trained for a lifetime career,” and receive the “campus experience” (“wrong idea”). One key figure that has spoken out against paying players is Syracuse basketball Coach Jim Boeheim. Boeheim, widely regarded as one of the best college basketball coaches, called the idea “the most idiotic suggestion of all time,” and says the players are receiving a “tremendous” opportunity to go to college and play basketball (qtd. in “Bocheim”). Bocheim speaking on the issue shows how high profile this debate is becoming. Not only do student-athletes get scholarships they have access to services not available to all students. For example, LSU offers student-athletes tutoring services exclusively for athletes. In addition, Universities have a vested interest in not paying players.
The average salary for a major college football coach has jumped 70 percent since 2006 to $1.64 million (Gregory). However, this rise in salary does not reflect a rise in surplus money for Universities. According to Jeffery Dorfman only 23 of the 228 Football Bowl Subdivision, highest level of college football, athletic programs actually made money in 2012. He says that the number changes year-to-year but the number stays in the mid-twenties or fewer (Dorfman). Also, he says of the 23 that will make money they are all in BCS automatic-qualifying conferences, the SEC, ACC, Big-12, Big-10, and PAC-12. Out of the five Louisiana institutions only LSU made money on its athletic program.
Furthermore, every Division I school that is not in a major conference, such as the other four Louisiana schools, is losing money, and only two or three sports across the country actually make money: Football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball (Dorfman). The main issue from a university’s standpoint is that if they had to pay players then the schools will be put under “financial pressure” to drop the sports that do not make money (Dorfman). The other four Louisiana schools and other institutions losing money would essentially have three options if they were required to pay players. Either as previously stated cut non-revenue sports, cut salaries of coaches, faculty, etc., or raise student tuition and fees. However, although these situations could happen there are more pressing legal issues to consider if college athletes were to be paid.
Title IX, a “groundbreaking” legislation that prevented educational discrimination on the basis of sex, was one of the cornerstones in sports, history, but stands in the way of another one (Hardy). The main reason legislation blockades the pay for play is it calls for equality among women and men’s sports teams. Therefore, if one were to pay the players in sports making money, football, and both basketball teams, that would be roughly 100 men being paid and approximately only 15 women. This would be in violation of Title IX, and would because for legal action by female players. The only solution in this situation would be to pay all athletes, and this would increase overall costs or greatly lower the pay for each of the students (Dorfman). In theory, it seems only fair to pay college athletes for their hard work and time, but that’s why it is a theory. In reality, the bureaucracy and red tape of college athletics prevents the players from getting money some believe they deserve.
However, others say players not receiving money is a good thing, and they are being compensated with scholarships and the college experience. The issue impacts Louisiana by hurting their funding. Also, the fact that most of the Louisiana universities are losing money on athletics, and would end up costing students, coaches, or the sports that don’t make much money. Furthermore, regardless of the side of the issue one is on the legal issues presented by Title IX is a clear blockade to paying players. Overall, the plan is well-intentioned, but unless there is a plan that could solve the many issues that revolve around the NCAA and college athletics paying players would only open a Pandora’s box that could cause more harm than originally intended.
