Rhetorical Questions On College Athletes

Have you ever been to a huge NCAA tournament? (Rhetorical Question) The stands are packed, the crowd is roaring, it’s the Final Four in the NCAA tournament March Madness. You just finished watching that AT&T ad on the big screen. Do you know how much those quick thirty-second ads cost? The thirty-second ads have a $700,000 ad rate according to usnew.com (Hypophora). Many of us in one way or another support some college athletic team. You may have gone to a college basket ball tournament or football games where college teams were playing. For example, the NCAA puts on a basketball tournament called March Madness. You may have heard or event went to it because, usanews.com states that but that the NCAA makes over one billion dollars annually …show more content…
One reason is because many normal students at college have the time to go and get a part time job and that can be their source of money; Isidore points out that on the other hand many athletes who train during season spend anywhere from thirty to fifty hours at practice a week and have classes to balance on top of that With all this time at minimum wage a nonstudent athlete could make anywhere from $217.5 to $362.5 with the minimum wage being $7.25 an hour. Also, these athletes go to practice and work their butts off, its not like they show up to practice to sit around and do nothing, in fact many of them are in the hot sun training for hours at a time. Some may argue that student athletes are being paid by getting scholarships, but neglect the fact that there are many other students at the college who can, and do get scholarships for academics alone. Being an athlete myself, I find it much easier to stay home, study, and get good grades rather than going to practice for sometimes almost three hours each night, then having to go and prepare for the same classes and tests that regular students take. If college is really to prepare students for living out on their own they, athletes should be paid like professionals are. When a person is picking a major to pursue, they usually pick something that they like to do. But if a sport is what you like to do then …show more content…
Some athletes have had career ending injuries that have prevented them from playing any major league sport therefore preventing them from getting paid and sometimes in severe cases, getting a job while in college, and were not compensated for it. If this student athlete was being paid throughout his collegiate years for his sport, he may have not been as upset or sometimes even as depressed about his injury seeing that he was being paid to do what he loved. Many people may mistake and an injury as just being physical damage but in reality these can lead to mental heath problems like dementia. Among college football players “34 percent have had one concussion and 30 percent have had two or more concussions”, according to the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery and “if you have a second concussion, even a minor one, soon after the first concussion, you might die”. The department also said even if the concussion doesn’t kill them, they could result in learning disabilities, memory impairments and sometimes depression. If a student who holds a part time job outside of school instead of doing a sport gets hurt on the job they usually get paid or compensated for their injury. Green claims that on the other hand if a student athlete gets hurt on their job, which is practice, the only thing they get is their