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    Why Athletes Are Overpaid

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    Cadin Chaplin ¾ In 2009 75% of athletes in the NFL after 2 years of retirement are bankrupt. Athletes are overpaid to play something for “fun”, even some athletes seem to be paid limitless amounts of money to play sports. Most athletes pay is more than most people who are actually important. Stanton scored 325 million dollars for only 37 home runs. Even the president's annual salary is only 400,000. People who devote their lives to try to make cures for cancer don’t even get half as much as a…

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    2015. Web 19 Nov. 2015. Economists believe college athletes should be paid. They claim it is unfair and illegal. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has argue students-athletes should not get paid. Students join sports voluntary. The purpose of the students-athlete is to get an education and not to attend to get paid playing sports. Most schools in the NCAA Division one would not…

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    televised games has been described as influencing fever and madness. During these discrete times, exposes and editorials proliferate, resolving in low graduation rates and the recruitment and commodification of young men and women simply for their athletic talent and potential. In society today, people believe that there is somewhat a commodity for black athletes. One might think that sometimes the black athletes…

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    The NCAA is a multi-billion-dollar company. There are many sports fans that enjoy watching college athletics compared to a professional sport. The NCAA knows that millions of people are willing to pay absurd amounts of money for tickets, merchandise, etc. In 2015 at the NCAA Men’s Final Four the least expensive seat in the house was $1,151.98, per CBS Detroit and TiqIQ (Peebles). This was the least expensive seat among a crowd of 143,387 people. (Peebles). The Final game was watched by more…

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    The Working Student College Athletes are being convinced that they are being paid enough. They are constantly getting cheated out of money. Players should be paid because they bring in revenue from playing on television, and playing is like a full-time job. As a team they need to take back their money. College Student are paid with their education They are provided with various benefits. But even removing this educational asset from the equation “NCAA Division I athletes still receive expert…

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    College Debt In College

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    College debt is almost inevitable for all college students due to colleges expensive tuition and the lack of scholarships for students who have 3.5 GPA in high school and 22 or higher on the act.Most colleges only offer scholarships to students who have a 30 or above on the act;And almost all universities only offer a full unpaid scholarship if you have a 34 or above on the act and were either valedictorian or salutatorian,but yet most high school football players get full scholarships from…

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    Belhaven University

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    Oftentimes many may wonder what the differences in students between liberal arts colleges and national universities in the U.S. and, which is better? The answer to the question depends on your personal interests, educational needs, career prospects and maybe where you live. Here at Belhaven University is a private Christian liberal arts university located in Jackson, Mississippi. Already with its location and Belhaven being a Christian university, it brings it a lot of diversity within students.…

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    day is college athletics specifically in an administrative capacity. With the hopes of becoming the head athletic director. The people I talked to within the athletic department at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill included Brandy Battista, a female with the Athletics Communications Department, This particular segment of the sports industry deals with collegiate athletics. The services that they provide include athletic facilities for practice, scheduling of games, athletic apparel,…

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    Muhammad Ali can fight one match and winds up with 5 million dollars. -Johnny Bench and most people can't make that in 3 years. This is why athletes are overpaid because other jobs deserve more. And most athletes go bankrupt anyway. Other jobs get paid a 5th of what athletes get paid this is why other jobs should get more. Most athletes get paid around an average of about 66 million dollars a year. Athletes also lose their money then they have no money to retire with. Some contracts can be…

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    Smith College sports economist, Andrew Zimbalist, says one way would be to cap the compensation of coaches and athletic directors. He has also called for players to receive more benefits, like health insurance, and to reap outside income from their image and likeness. He suggests a salary cap on coaches, athletic directors, AND players. They should also be given a minimum salary. One university might want to offer a star halfback $40,000, while another might…

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