Each year hundreds of thousands of fans come to tailgate and support their former or favorite colleges, earning millions for schools and companies that sponsor them. It is illegal for athletes to receive any form of payment even though we are the ones that bring in the revenue. Being a division one athlete is not as good as it seems, because the NCAA and its schools do not pay it’s student athletes. The dedication, hard work, and sacrifices of student athletes are taken advantage of.
Any top school in the NCAA is sponsored by an athletic brand. This is bad because it means at some point in that schools history the NCAA and its school realized they could sell out on their athletes and use them as billboards. In recent years brands have spent big money to be everywhere on campus. According to Business Insider’s article “11 college teams that rake in tons of cash from Nike, Under …show more content…
The toll on my body will haunt me for the rest of my life. There is being exhausted, then there is twenty days in a row of camp tired. I will never forget this till the day I die, we were warming up in practice and I looked over to my teammate and he was standing facing the opposite direction. I walked up to him and shock his shoulder, and he proceeded to fall. He hopped right up and shouted, “I’m awake, I’m awake!” My teammate had fallen asleep standing up, fully patted up helmet and all. I can speak for others when I say my health has been sacrificed for my sport and school. Colleges may pay for your schooling, housing, and meal plans but they can’t pay health bills when the athlete is graduated and gone. Just last year I had a collapsed lung and three broken ribs. I will have life long implications from this accident, it occurred during my time playing for my school and I will never receive compensation for that. Sometimes being a athlete for a large college isn’t as good as it
Any top school in the NCAA is sponsored by an athletic brand. This is bad because it means at some point in that schools history the NCAA and its school realized they could sell out on their athletes and use them as billboards. In recent years brands have spent big money to be everywhere on campus. According to Business Insider’s article “11 college teams that rake in tons of cash from Nike, Under …show more content…
The toll on my body will haunt me for the rest of my life. There is being exhausted, then there is twenty days in a row of camp tired. I will never forget this till the day I die, we were warming up in practice and I looked over to my teammate and he was standing facing the opposite direction. I walked up to him and shock his shoulder, and he proceeded to fall. He hopped right up and shouted, “I’m awake, I’m awake!” My teammate had fallen asleep standing up, fully patted up helmet and all. I can speak for others when I say my health has been sacrificed for my sport and school. Colleges may pay for your schooling, housing, and meal plans but they can’t pay health bills when the athlete is graduated and gone. Just last year I had a collapsed lung and three broken ribs. I will have life long implications from this accident, it occurred during my time playing for my school and I will never receive compensation for that. Sometimes being a athlete for a large college isn’t as good as it