Reflecting to the documentary “Schooled: The Price of College Sports”. The argument is should NCAA Division I athletes, who are a huge source of revenue to the universities, and broadcaster be paid to play. The NCAA responded to the argument by stating that “Amateur competition is a bedrock principle of college athletics and the NCAA. Maintaining amateurism is crucial to preserving an academic environment in which acquiring a quality education is the first priority. In the collegiate model of sports, the young men and women competing on the field or court are students first, athletes second.” Not allowing the student-athletes to have a salary for participating in athletics, and receive prize money above actual and necessary expenses(NCAA),
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Universities and Colleges recruit the athletes, imposing them to operate with a multi-billion-dollar industry regulating them and making a huge revenue of their exposers. The universities offer full-ride scholarships, and free education, which is a huge opportunity, and invaluable experience that many Americans are not able to afford. But looking at all the television revenue, tickets, jersey sales and other product sold, the comparison is incomparable. The athletes despite devoting 40 hours a week practicing, leaving them with little time to place towards academics, the division I athletes are not considered as employees, the source of income go to the NCAA and members that are involved in the business such as the coaches and the staff. Basically, the student athletes are exploited by the NCAA and universities for they athletics skills with no source of income, they are just given the opportunity to get free education, but do the amount of devotion towards their sport they cannot fully dedicate their time towards education. "If these young men and women are going to come in and put in 30, 40, 50 hours, the least we can give them is a set of circumstances academically that really allows them to benefit educationally from what they have put into the athletics …show more content…
Resulting in the schools spending a bulk load of their money on coaches’ salary and multi-million athletics facilities. The NCAA wants to keep their system and has no intentions to pay their college athletes, the NCAA president Mark Emmert stated "One thing that sets the fundamental tone is there's very few members and, virtually no university president, that thinks it's a good idea to convert student-athletes into paid employees. Literally into professionals," After the public started pressuring the NCAA for their belief on not paying college athletes, they responded twice by approving a rule change allowing schools to give athletes a stipend to cover expenses not covered by their scholarship -- clothes, travel, meals out with their
Universities and Colleges recruit the athletes, imposing them to operate with a multi-billion-dollar industry regulating them and making a huge revenue of their exposers. The universities offer full-ride scholarships, and free education, which is a huge opportunity, and invaluable experience that many Americans are not able to afford. But looking at all the television revenue, tickets, jersey sales and other product sold, the comparison is incomparable. The athletes despite devoting 40 hours a week practicing, leaving them with little time to place towards academics, the division I athletes are not considered as employees, the source of income go to the NCAA and members that are involved in the business such as the coaches and the staff. Basically, the student athletes are exploited by the NCAA and universities for they athletics skills with no source of income, they are just given the opportunity to get free education, but do the amount of devotion towards their sport they cannot fully dedicate their time towards education. "If these young men and women are going to come in and put in 30, 40, 50 hours, the least we can give them is a set of circumstances academically that really allows them to benefit educationally from what they have put into the athletics …show more content…
Resulting in the schools spending a bulk load of their money on coaches’ salary and multi-million athletics facilities. The NCAA wants to keep their system and has no intentions to pay their college athletes, the NCAA president Mark Emmert stated "One thing that sets the fundamental tone is there's very few members and, virtually no university president, that thinks it's a good idea to convert student-athletes into paid employees. Literally into professionals," After the public started pressuring the NCAA for their belief on not paying college athletes, they responded twice by approving a rule change allowing schools to give athletes a stipend to cover expenses not covered by their scholarship -- clothes, travel, meals out with their