Amateurism In Amateurism

Should college athletes be paid? I think they should. I found three main reason why other people and myself think that college athletes deserve pay. One, you can just pay the sports that produce the most revenue. Two, these student athletes put in lots of work and even sometimes have to miss class to go to the sports event.

Each year, Americans spend about eleven billion dollars just on fantasy football (“By the Numbers”). Considering that this is a large sum of money, it is obvious that Americans adore this game. Fantasy football has been played in the USA for a very long time, and is now an essential part of this society. It has been used for entertainment and for competition for many years, without any complications. However, after daily fantasy football was introduced, which introduced weekly winnings of over one million dollars, fantasy football became less of a friendly competition.

Amateurism in college athletics is an exploitation of the athletes who participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sports. The amount of work that is done by these athletes to help their respective institutions generate millions of dollars in revenue, goes seemingly unnoticed when identifying the substantial amount of money flow in NCAA sports and the amount of people, from stakeholders to alumni, that benefit from this source. Amateurism, the foundation of NCAA sports, has been in place for over a century of time dating back to the early 1900s. Any athlete who is making money for work they’ve done outside of their institution is not being exploited, however, an athlete can easily be placed on the other end of the spectrum

For example, Aaron Rodgers is the highest ranked quarterback in the NFL, Cody Kessler is the highest ranked quarterback in college football, both do the same amount of work in practice and in games, only Rodgers gets paid. Unless professionals start playing for free, which won’t happen, then college athletes should start getting some respect and money. Likewise an article written on why college athletes should be compensated for their efforts gave examples of professional players compared to college players, “Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, Clayton Kershaw and Cody Kessler are major stars in the Los Angeles sports market; however, while Bryant, Paul and Kershaw are compensated handsomely for leading their

Although there is still a disparity in men’s and women’s sports, Title IX potentially serves as the best protection against paying student-athletes. Paying student-athletes doesn’t take into account all sports, just the high profile men’s basketball and football programs. The core of Title IX prevents inequality, therefore preventing institutions from paying only those athletes who participate in profitable sports. You simply

College sports is one of the best-known entertainments around the world. But for the athletes, they are students first then athletes second. For college student-athletes, there are a variety of scholarships and grants to help pay for college or college debt. However, some critics say that student-athletes should be paid a salary like pro athletes would, with help from scholarships or grants. The authors of, College Athletes are being Educated, not Exploited, Val Ackerman and Larry Scott, argue that student-athletes are already paid by free education and other necessities.

Because of this many people feel college players should get paid because they have no job yet, they are making tons of money for their school. Unlike professional players who get paid millions to play and are essentially doing the same things for their team. To conclude, there are many similarities between professional and college basketball but, there is also a difference to both. Even though there is a difference they are both viewed as a great sport for all the fans. Players may disagree, mostly college players but if they make it to be a professional they will get paid all the money

To begin with, Salzberg makes a seemly unresearched claim, he claims that  “Our universities are providing a free training ground for the super-wealthy owners of professional football teams, while getting little in return”(Salzberg 1). In this quote, he states that universities get little in return, but if one does a little research, the reader can see universities receive a great amount of benefits. For example, colleges can receive money from games in their stadiums whether they win or lose from tickets, concussions, players, and etc. The sports department is a big money makers in universities, not to mention colleges can also can gain publicity, if a player gets famous off the college’s team.

Within the last two decades, collegiate athletics has experienced enormous financial profits lighting the debate that the student-athletes’ in the larger revenue generating sports should be entitled to a share of the revenue their sport creates for their school program, the NCAA, and any other commercial purposes. As a result of the economic prosperity commercial enterprises are experiencing because of the rapid growth of college athletics within the television industry and social media, the NCAA is being forced to potentially alter what it stands for and certainly what is most valued in intercollegiate athletics being the preservation of amateur status, maintaining a healthy competitive balance, and the promotion of the educational missions

After, you turn on the nightly news to see an interview with a firefighter that had saved the life of a young child. Needed to say, a professional athlete gets paid much more than a firefighter. One might think that it is unfair that athletes make much more than those who dedicate their lives to helping others, but the reality is that athletes are not overpaid, and that comes with much reasons and proof.     In the game, athletes like Rob Gronkowski and Lebron James make the sport look almost easy. That is because they have been training for years and know

Are they students or employees? They spend more time with the sport than in school. Student athletes should be acknowledged for their performances. College athletes should be paid to play because they bring money into the school, advertisement, and they perform the same tasks of pros. College kids bring in thousands of dollars every game day.

Knowing that the NCAA get billions of dollars of revenue each year, should change your mind about paying athletes. Athletes are the key to the NCAA 's money source. They bring in all the revenue by competing at a high level each and every day. Athletes put all their time and effort into the sport and have nothing to show for it. Except a "good education".

College athletes deserve to be paid because they are the only ones not being paid in the college sports industry. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) generates eleven billion dollars annually, some of which could, and should go to college athletes. “USA Today reported last year just how much money the top 10 coaches in college football made. Nick Saban from Alabama topped the list earning roughly $5.5 million in 2013 alone” (Seibold). The coaches are making millions of dollars and the players aren’t.

Not only did they monopolize the college sport industry, in doing so, they have disallowed pay to all of their athletes. The only reason people go to games or buy merchandise is because of the athletes. " Fifty colleges report annual revenues that exceed $50

However, some people think college athletes should not be paid for many reasons such as, college athletes already receive numerous benefits. Many get scholarships, which help pay for their tuition, books ,dorms, and sporting equipment. According to the NCAA, college athletes often receive grants worth up to 100,000 dollars. They are the first choice for professional leagues, which draft college athletes at a higher rate than overseas or minor leagues. Also they might argue, college athletes should be considered students first, because by receiving direct payment, they would basically be employees or professionals rather than students.