Due to the increasing popularity of college sports in the United States, individuals have begun to question whether college athletes should be paid like professionals. But college athletes are students and amateur players, meaning that college athletes are not given money to play a sport. Student-athletes attend college to get an education, not to be paid to play a sport. Already compensating athletes for playing are scholarships. Also, paying athletes would cause countless problems.…
College athletics have gained extensive popularity among Americans over the past few decades. This has resulted in an increase in cash flow for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The enormous amount of money being made off of college sports has led to the question whether students should be getting paid for their performance. The NCAA, as a whole, makes $6 billion annually. But the players themselves don’t get a dime of the money.…
Should college athletes, specifically in a division 1, revenue producing sports be receiving payment from the university in exchange for their performance? This is the essential question being asked in these research studies. Student athletes are provided scholarships and other incentives for playing a division 1 sport, but is it really enough to cover the cost of their tuition and personal expenses? There are a vast amount of opinions on this issue; ranging from yes or no that student athletes should be waged, to they should be able to accept endorsements or that they should get an extra stipend if their season goes well. Division 1, revenue producing sports, specifically men’s football and basketball are not compensated fairly for their performance,…
When it comes to Sports Law there are several issues at all levels of competition; College, Professional, and even International sports have begun to see an influx of legal issues as the popularity of sports continues to grow. Issues like player health and safety, player labor and union issues, and gambling limitations in sport are generating a lot of conversation. However, the fight between college athletes and the National Collegiate Athletic Association over developing free market and unions for players. The question that is typically heard on a daily basis is, “Should college athletes be paid?”, and the typical answer is ether “yes” or “no, they are getting a free education.”…
Professional athletes, especially NBA players are harshly criticized of their high salaries because many people feel what they do does not amount to what they are being paid. They feel NBA players aren’t contributing enough to be paid on that magnitude. Many people can’t stand that NBA players are paid millions while teachers, doctors, lawyers, or other professions are making nothing compared to them. Many strongly feel that NBA players do nothing more than play a ball game. However, there is a lot that NBA players do that people are unaware of.…
The Controversy Over Paying College Athletes In a Times cover story, Sean Gregory in referring to Johnny Manziel asks, “How much longer can everyone else make money from college athletes like Manziel while the athletes themselves see their cash compensation capped—at $0?” Manziel, a Texas A&M quarterback, had been suspended for the first half of the season opener because he had signed his autograph for some fans. Although he did not personally accept money for his autograph, it was obvious trinket brokers would sell his autograph. Manziel’s suspension is an interesting story that brings forth the issue of whether or not college athletes should be paid (Gregory).…
ARGUMENT 1: The male/female coverage of sports is not evenly distributed in the media. • Professional sports are a part of the entertainment industry, and thus, the spectators and supporters of the athletes mainly determine the quantity of pay. Men’s sports attract more spectators and attention, and are therefore able to sell more tickets to live events, thus generating more money. • More money is invested into commercials pertaining to male athletes. For instance, most TV commercials use the most popular male athletes.…
Many of the critics of college athletics have the viewpoint that many college athletes, especially the large market athletes, are being “used” in a sense to bring in immense amounts of money towards the institutions, but in no way are the athletes reimbursed for the profit they helped to bring into the university. Another valid argument that agrees that college athletes should be paid is the “big business” side of collegiate athletics (Sanderson). College sports have a market that rivals that of professional sports, with multi billion-dollar revenue, all from athletes that will never see any of that profit. With the massive amount of profit what these institutions are doing could also be seen as a form of “abuse”, colleges are taking advantage of the talent that these players naturally have and have worked for, in the process these Universities are making hundreds of millions off of these athletes. The top tier basketball and football programs in the country make well over a million dollars of revenue ever season (Finnegan),…
The debate of whether college athletes should, or shouldn’t be paid has been ongoing for years now. Many believe in the aspect of playing for the pure love of the game, while other seems to think that athlete having the opportunity to be paid would make a tremendous difference in society. Either way, both aspects would further make an impact on how student athletes go about their lives. Derek Fritz once said, “Sports have a certain romantic side to them, too often we got lost in the jumble of the world around us and forget the real reason why we’re playing the games we love so dearly.” The debate of whether college athletes should be paid has increased dramatically within the past decade.…
One of the trending topics in business ethics is the idea that college athletes should be paid for their talents. I find this topic very interesting because sports is always going to be around, from pop warner levels to the professionals. I’ve recently been grateful enough to be a collegiate athlete. It is a hard task to balance being a student and an athlete because you are constantly working on your craft and studying. I would have certainly loved the idea of being paid to do what I loved while studying in the field of my interest.…
Despite a less time demanding schedule, professional athletes are paid while student athletes are not. However, student athletes are often compensated through scholarships. But, is a scholarship a fair way to compensate these students for their service to the university? This topic has piqued my interest because of the dedication I have to sports and education.…
Overall, female athletes should be paid similar salaries to their male…
“People complain that professional athletes get paid too much, but what they don’t understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money,” is a quote from Patrick Ewing, a famous NBA star. His quote directly shows that athletes are being paid too much. For example athletes get paid a great deal more than the working class. They also get paid way more than surgeons, who save lives. There are also orphanages who barely make enough money to keep the kids safe.…
If people were not brought up to watch the numerous amounts of male sports televised on television, then the inequality towards women would not be a subject to address. We have to blame ourselves for not showing interest in women’s sports (Flanagan 2). Women should be paid the same for their talent and hard work. Men are often known to be providers of their families. But today, women have moved into this role and are competing with men.…
Outside of the educational aspects of gender equality, many professional sports teams are a part of this mistreatment. Women in order to be treated as equals, men need to see them as equals. For example, men are offered bigger income checks at the end of the year if they play sports. Many people’s opinions across the world have been that women are too fragile to play in male dominate sports. This unequal…