NCAA Student Athletes

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the center for amateur and college sports in today’s society. This organization houses 1,281 institutions all across the United States. With levels of competition at the Division 1,2, and 3 levels there are over 460,000 students athletes competing in the NCAA. NCAA Student-Athletes are recruited from their hometown high school or club organizations worldwide. The athletes are rated on how they perform in the classroom and on the field. Many of these Student-Athletes grow up training for the collegiate level and aspire to compete with some of the best athletes in the nation. Scholarship money is offered anywhere from the bare minimum of 20 percent all the way up to the rarely granted 100 …show more content…
The most important one of all, time. When entering an NCAA school they are no longer just a regular college student, hence the name given “Student-Athletes”. The first day athletes step on campus they are sat down to be told when practices would be, when weight room sessions will be, and when they will be meeting as a team. Anytime after that is the athlete’s time to get their schoolwork done and whatever else they may want to do. The problem is at the end of the week student- Athletes put in up to 40 hours a week into their sport. 40 hours that can be spent working a job to help them get through college. Athletes who need another form of money cannot go out and find a job that gets them through financially. By the NCAA not giving some sort of pension to these athletes it causes some to drop out of college to get a job and work for money to get them and their family through financially. Thus losing some of the nations best athletes because the NCAA does not agree with the fact that student- athletes should be …show more content…
These tournaments are consisted of 64 selected basketball programs through out the nation and widdles down from 64 teams to, 32,16,8,4, and 2 final two teams. During this week of basketball, corporate sponsors, broadcasters and television providers prepare to go on the air during this week. Companies and sponsors pay an average rate of 700,000 dollars for a 30 second advertisement during the final four. As Forbes’ Chris Smith wrote, “CBS and Turner Broadcasting make more than $1 billion off of the games”. When the athletics season is done and summer time rolls around the NCAA adds up their “profit” to 6 billion dollars on average