After their senior year, many students face the unique opportunity to attend a prestigious college or university. Many factors go into their decision making process such as: tuition, distance, and fields of study. With all of that taken into account many students still have one criteria to be met before they make their decision and that, put simply, is college proficiency in the sports. With that knowledge, many college administrations seek out the best players and try to entice them dreams of money, fame and grandeur that will come after combining a free (or reduced) college education and playing for their particular program. So with that being said, student athletes play an essential role to college and universities by developing leadership,
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This is especially true for division III athletes whose colleges have outrageous tuition but do not offer athletic scholarships and the academic cash is heavily contested. Their upper level brethren do not fare any better when on average on an average 150 man squad, just about half receive any aid at all let alone a full athletic scholarship. In other words some athletes are taken care of while others are not and this is a travesty. Here you have young men and women who put their bodies on the line day in and day, study late into the night are held to the same standards as there non-athletic counterparts on campus.
The large majority of the wealth being made off collegiate sports has raised some eye brows and gained quit the attention for the issue of whether or not student-athletes should be considered paid college employees with a supped-up work-study position for their efforts. Collegiate athletes should receive money based off of a pay for play system because of the revenue generated by their sport to the school, lack of time to actually find a job that would pay, and the unfair disparity between quality of life for regular students as compared to that of
This is especially true for division III athletes whose colleges have outrageous tuition but do not offer athletic scholarships and the academic cash is heavily contested. Their upper level brethren do not fare any better when on average on an average 150 man squad, just about half receive any aid at all let alone a full athletic scholarship. In other words some athletes are taken care of while others are not and this is a travesty. Here you have young men and women who put their bodies on the line day in and day, study late into the night are held to the same standards as there non-athletic counterparts on campus.
The large majority of the wealth being made off collegiate sports has raised some eye brows and gained quit the attention for the issue of whether or not student-athletes should be considered paid college employees with a supped-up work-study position for their efforts. Collegiate athletes should receive money based off of a pay for play system because of the revenue generated by their sport to the school, lack of time to actually find a job that would pay, and the unfair disparity between quality of life for regular students as compared to that of