Should college athletes get paid?
According to the NCAA there are more than 460,000 student athletes playing more than 24 different types of sports across the United States. If you are a college athlete or not, we are all familiar with college sports in some type of way. What we are not all familiar with is how college sports is a multi billion dollar business. The NCAA is a member led organization that overviews anything that a college athlete. The NCAA is a billion dollar organization that makes money straight off of college athletics. Even though it is a non profit organization it still makes billions. It maintains this non profit title due to a common academic mission which it shares with the universities and colleges. But the real problem …show more content…
But not all colleges give out a scholarships. Colleges and universities are separated into three different type of divisions. You have a division 1, 2, and 3 schools. The difference between these schools is the size of the school. Typically a D1 school has the typical minimum of 14 sports. Division 1 schools give out more scholarships compared to division 2 schools because the school can afford it. Whether or not you keep the scholarship completely depends on how you perform on the field and in the classroom. College athletes have to do twice the work of a regular student. For example their days are longer because they have classes and practices. The role of a college athlete is vital for some universities because it provides school spirit and attracts people from around the state to visit that college. College athletes understand their role and some believe that they should be rewarded extra money due to …show more content…
Even though there are a majority of people with this movement, many argue that paying athletes is near impossible.
There are opposing sides that claim colleges and smaller colleges could not afford to pay these athletes. It would be hard to imagine how these schools wouldn’t be able to pay these players. Karaim writes in his article about how the NCAA is a multibillion dollar industry. He claims that the NCAA should be able to afford and assist these colleges with the billions of dollars that they make every year (Karaim, 5). But the fact to say that colleges and big universities can’t afford to pay their athletes is ridiculous. According to Joe Nocera at the New York Times, the college football and college basketball enterprise together make a total of $6 billion dollars combined. That is more that the National Basketball Association. The second argument deals with Title IX which deals with discrimination against gender in education. There is a large group of people that argue that how can you pay just the men and not the woman. But Title IX’s equal education opportunity, will not apply if these athletes are to be recognized as employees of the
According to the NCAA there are more than 460,000 student athletes playing more than 24 different types of sports across the United States. If you are a college athlete or not, we are all familiar with college sports in some type of way. What we are not all familiar with is how college sports is a multi billion dollar business. The NCAA is a member led organization that overviews anything that a college athlete. The NCAA is a billion dollar organization that makes money straight off of college athletics. Even though it is a non profit organization it still makes billions. It maintains this non profit title due to a common academic mission which it shares with the universities and colleges. But the real problem …show more content…
But not all colleges give out a scholarships. Colleges and universities are separated into three different type of divisions. You have a division 1, 2, and 3 schools. The difference between these schools is the size of the school. Typically a D1 school has the typical minimum of 14 sports. Division 1 schools give out more scholarships compared to division 2 schools because the school can afford it. Whether or not you keep the scholarship completely depends on how you perform on the field and in the classroom. College athletes have to do twice the work of a regular student. For example their days are longer because they have classes and practices. The role of a college athlete is vital for some universities because it provides school spirit and attracts people from around the state to visit that college. College athletes understand their role and some believe that they should be rewarded extra money due to …show more content…
Even though there are a majority of people with this movement, many argue that paying athletes is near impossible.
There are opposing sides that claim colleges and smaller colleges could not afford to pay these athletes. It would be hard to imagine how these schools wouldn’t be able to pay these players. Karaim writes in his article about how the NCAA is a multibillion dollar industry. He claims that the NCAA should be able to afford and assist these colleges with the billions of dollars that they make every year (Karaim, 5). But the fact to say that colleges and big universities can’t afford to pay their athletes is ridiculous. According to Joe Nocera at the New York Times, the college football and college basketball enterprise together make a total of $6 billion dollars combined. That is more that the National Basketball Association. The second argument deals with Title IX which deals with discrimination against gender in education. There is a large group of people that argue that how can you pay just the men and not the woman. But Title IX’s equal education opportunity, will not apply if these athletes are to be recognized as employees of the