College Athletes Get Paid Analysis

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Throughout the NCAA sports world, there has been a lot of talk about college athletes getting paid to play at a certain college. As paying college athletes has become a very controversial and touchy topic, there has be assumptions that the University of Arizona has been paid a freshman basketball player, DeAndre Ayton $100,000 to make sure that he would commit to the Arizona Wildcats program. DeAndre Ayton is a seven foot one inch center that can play both defense and offensive at a very high level, but now has been under FBI investigation the whole basketball season, yet he is still averaging around nineteen points per game and over ten rebounds. Yes, he is getting paid a very large amount of money, but is that such a bad thing? There are …show more content…

According to Marc Edelman, “An average division one college athlete puts in about 43.3 hours per week, bouncing from the field/court, weight room, and film session, that is more about 3.3 hours more that the average full-time job and they receive a salary. “(2014, para 3) And yet all they can receive, is a pat on the back and a “good job” compliment. While these athletes are bringing in massive amounts of money into their schools on a daily basis, the athletes only get to see that the money goes to their coaches, facilities, and school, which is not terrible but still could be better for the amount of money they bring in. According to Jeff Cockrell, “Among 127 of the 131 schools in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, the average revenues from football alone exceed $30 million. The NCAA itself a large portion of whose revenues come from its recently completed men’s basketball tournament raked in more than $1 billion in 2017.” (2018, para 1) One Billion dollars in the month of March along was made, with having just under seventy games played, that’s almost fifteen million dollars made per game and not a single one of those athletes get to touch that money. With sixty seven games getting played in the month of march, those student athletes are forced to miss a ton of class depending on how far they go in the March

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