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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…

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.…

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,…

Steven Thomas had a dream of becoming a renowned professional NBA team writer.During his quest to achieve his dream he was able to win a writing contest, which provided him the opportunity to cover one of the on of the biggest weekends in college sports. That achievement was covering one of the final four college basketball games at New Orleans. They were sent over to the Final Four in New Orleans to see Duke versus Minnesota State University. The tickets were worth at least $3000. While at the…

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…

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…

The world of men’s college athletics is intense; full of testosterone infused, ultra-competitive athletes and corrupt coaches all vying for a spot in the nation’s biggest championships. So what does this amount to? A friendly bunch of folks all participating in games for the fun of it? While this might be the case for few, the majority of college athletics is much more complex than that. It is a billion dollar business, fueled by a few thousand young men with the carrot of their lifelong…

The purpose of this article is to elucidate the sociological insights that can be learned from analysing the relationship between political, economic and cultural phenomenon within football institutions at both a global and local level. Giulianotti and Robertson(2004) assert that football is vitally important to our understanding of globalisation because roughly one billion people have an interest in the sport and it allows these groups to interact. Soccer acts like a microcosm of the concept of…

director is to ensure that their athletic department and student-athletes are in compliance with NCAA legislation. The officer or director is to ensure that the academic institution that he or she represents is applying NCAA legislation in the areas of financial aid, eligibility, recruiting, and athletics personnel and playing and practice seasons (NCAA, 2015). The position of a compliance officer or director is paramount for any school involved in NCAA athletics and is one that has to ensure…

Work But No Pay? Hard work but no pay? If a hard day's work is put in, shouldn't it receive a good pay or at least some pay, especially if it is a high risk job? This is what NCAA players face they put hard risky work in and see no pay even if there names are used. NCAA athletes have a privilege of going to school. But, these athletes have their names and faces used. Also, these athletes put in so much hard work it prevents them from getting a job. There have been many injuries that have…