College Football Hall Of Fame

Especially if the team is good then the games will sell out almost every game. For example Alabama crimson tide bring 28 million dollars in ticket sales in 2008. They play in the same uniforms and don 't make that much upgrades to the program so where does that money go? The college uses that money on pointless things.

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.

Sammy Baugh was the greatest QB but even though he was great other players were just like him in other areas. College Football was also excelling at this time. “U of A finished second in the whole country in 1933, with a 79-11-15”(Lawrence 3). All NFL football players had to come from somewhere and a lot of them came from the U of A college. College football was being excelled at this time but the NFL still needed players to play.

College football is apart of the American culture just as much as having a democracy. College football includes the cost of tuition to students who play for their school. This means that players have a place to live at the college and schooling. College football does provide as an afterschool activity for students that would like to play football. College football players should not be paid for playing football.

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.

These athletes have the most popular sports teams and generate the most revenue. Their regulations are also much stricter that the regulation of Division I and II athletes. With special events such as March Madness, an end of the season tournament that involves the best Division I basketball ball teams where the battle each other for the NCAA National Basketball Champion title, or the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), a tournament that involves Division I football teams battling each other for NCAA Nation Football Champion title. These special tournaments that the athletes play in are generating the highest source of revenue and according to Edward H.

With the revenue quickly escalating, college athletes appear more as employees because of the money they are generating for their school program (Berry III,

Success in college sports is believed to improve the application rates and caliber of admitted students at certain universities. When Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie won the Heisman trophy, Boston college's undergraduate admissions went up by 25 points and its average SAT score of admitted freshmen increased by 110 points. College sports add a reputation to the school, and a good reputation obviously makes a difference. This reputation can even draw non-athletes. Many colleges use their athletes as core marketers of the university.

Another reason that it would be bad for college athletes to be paid is because the colleges would build a bad reputation for being all about the money and not about education. Already, some colleges are accused of using money to influence players into going to their school. "If a high-school football prodigy reported that he chose Michigan not for its academic quality, tradition, or beautiful campus but because it outbid all other suitors, a connection to the university’s values would be lost." (Yankah). Ever since the first college institutions were founded, they were either known for their academics or athletics.

The fight for payment of college athletes has not been quick one as more and more issues keep popping up. The NCAA has never allowed payment of its athletes, but small steps towards the overall goal has questioned the NCAA’s past. Its’ decisions has stayed constant since its founding in 1906. The first issue in this decision would not occur until 1952 when the NCAA ruled to give The University of Kentucky the ‘death penalty’ for paying their athletes. This ‘death penalty’ is a one year program ban from participation, the harshest penalty the NCAA can give.

College football and the NFL are two of the biggest sports today in America. The first college football game was played on November 6, 1869 between the New Jersey Tigers and the Rutgers Queensmen. The first NFL game was played on September 26, 1920 between the Buffalo Bills and the Boston Patriots. College football is more fun to watch than the NFL because there are more teams, better games, and immaculate stadiums.

College football is getting to be as popular as professional football. In some areas of the country, college football is a lot more popular than NFL football. In Nebraska for example, Memorial stadium in Lincoln becomes the state 's third largest city on home football game days. The stadium becomes a sea of red as fans dress in the team colors in support of the Cornhuskers.

College football saw an increase in the number of men that went out and saw in increase in the want of people to watch the game so something had to be done. The solution was to build grand football stadiums that could trump any baseball ballpark attendance. Michigan’s Big House, when it was first built in 1927, could seat 72,000 and Ohio States Horseshoe stadium, was the largest poured concrete structure and could seat over 65,000 when it was first built in 1922. (www.retrowaste.com)

Sports are something most Americans can relate to; many of us played some type of sport as a kid and some of us are die-hard fans. Sports have developed with us as a society and have become an interwoven piece of our culture and their effects can be seen in many cities countrywide. The facilities where these teams play can become a centerpiece of the local community and the teams themselves can bring people from all walks of life together in search of one mutual goal, for their team to win. The controversy arises when it comes to how many professional stadiums are routinely being funded and whether taxpayers should foot the multi-billion-dollar bill. This has not always been a controversy, however, as prior to 1953 stadiums were largely funded

If we were to pay them like professional theletes, the public might tune out of college sports. " John Rowady, president of sports marketing firm rEvolution... brlieves that paying the players as profesionals carries the risk of the public tuning out." (text 3, lines 6-9) Maybe that's true, or it could make the public more interested. Although, John says, "It would create a massive unknown, you have to wonder if it'd change the whole dynamic of what it means to be a student-athlete."