The BCS football championship and the NCAA(national collegiate athletic association) men’s basketball championship had a 41.7 million viewers making tv networks millions. At the same time the student athletes playing suffer from poverty and can’t provide for themselves. Forcing many to have to take money from under the table or illegally.According to Shabazz Napier one of the nations leading basketball player says"I don 't feel student-athletes should get hundreds of thousands of dollars, but like I said, there are hungry nights that I go to bed and I 'm starving," he said Is this acceptable for the NCAA to treat athletes like this while making Billions upon BIllions of dollars.
Eighty six percent of college student athletes are in poverty …show more content…
The average American works a little over 40 hours a week, while student athletes spend 43.3 hours working and training. So they work more than the average American yet are not even paid, but they generate millions for their universities. If you believe athletes are being paid in scholarships and their free education, but they are not able to use it to their full promised value because of the requirement of their colleges and the NCAA such as where athletes are not allowed to take more challenging courses which sets up athletes up for failing later in life because a tiny percent of athletes go pro.. The average student athlete misses a quarter of all their classes during the year because of the need to travel for sports contests.So they arent really given the whole value of the scholarship. Since athletes can be fined for missing practice or being late to games as well as losing the scholarship, the right to play is the exact same to a job where you can be fired or fined for misconduct. It doesn’t make sense to be penalized financially, when you are not guaranteed money in the first place.According to Northwestern football player Kain Colter says that his school will not let him try to become a doctor, meaning colleges will not let …show more content…
With many athletes being in poverty the NCAA should provide them with extra money. Even though they receive scholarships as a form of pay they are not able to take full advantage of receiving the scholarships. Without the work and dedication of the Athletes the NCAA and colleges would not make as much money or as many students. The NCAA and universities are not the only ones who receive big money, the coaching staff does too with the help of the athletes.The current system of not paying athletes does not make sense because if they did the NCAA would make more money and college sports would be more entertaining so by paying athletes everyone would benefit, you could say its a win win
Eighty six percent of college student athletes are in poverty …show more content…
The average American works a little over 40 hours a week, while student athletes spend 43.3 hours working and training. So they work more than the average American yet are not even paid, but they generate millions for their universities. If you believe athletes are being paid in scholarships and their free education, but they are not able to use it to their full promised value because of the requirement of their colleges and the NCAA such as where athletes are not allowed to take more challenging courses which sets up athletes up for failing later in life because a tiny percent of athletes go pro.. The average student athlete misses a quarter of all their classes during the year because of the need to travel for sports contests.So they arent really given the whole value of the scholarship. Since athletes can be fined for missing practice or being late to games as well as losing the scholarship, the right to play is the exact same to a job where you can be fired or fined for misconduct. It doesn’t make sense to be penalized financially, when you are not guaranteed money in the first place.According to Northwestern football player Kain Colter says that his school will not let him try to become a doctor, meaning colleges will not let …show more content…
With many athletes being in poverty the NCAA should provide them with extra money. Even though they receive scholarships as a form of pay they are not able to take full advantage of receiving the scholarships. Without the work and dedication of the Athletes the NCAA and colleges would not make as much money or as many students. The NCAA and universities are not the only ones who receive big money, the coaching staff does too with the help of the athletes.The current system of not paying athletes does not make sense because if they did the NCAA would make more money and college sports would be more entertaining so by paying athletes everyone would benefit, you could say its a win win