College football

3) a) The NCAA, led by Walter Byers, created the cultural understanding that college sports is a commercial consumption and that colleges can benefit financially from having top performing athletes. He did this by implementing regulations in order to segregate professional sports from amateur sports. In addition, while the colleges had athletic programs that generated revenue, the rules assisted with limiting the cost of having athletes on the team, thus increasing profit. The rules that are set…

Owners of NFL teams have “the option to trade with any other franchise unless the player has enough power to put stipulation in their personal contract” (Witt, 2017, NFL Trading Rules). All college athletes when getting drafted into the NFL have no say as to what team pics them. A college football athlete has one of two options. Either they can play for the team that picks them or they don’t play at all. This too shows how not even in the sport of basketball but any sport that there is an…

Every time Kobe Bryant puts the ball through the net, he earns the equivalent to the average teacher’s yearly salary. Tom Brady makes over $26 million after every sixteen games his Patriots play. Alex Rodriguez still makes millions even after he got caught using steroids. How can one person make millions of dollars while there are many people who are homeless and starving? Yes, Professional athletes are tremendous at what the do, but do they really need that amount of money? Professional…

sports team could boost the city’s tourism substantially and possibly grow its population. The team would need to be from one of the country’s 5 biggest sports: Football, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, or Hockey. There are reasons why Birmingham never had a professional sports team. The State of Alabama has always been dominated by the two college sports programs, Alabama and Auburn. These two college’s sports programs alone have the same amount of support as some professional teams. Another…

Could you imagine making millions upon millions doing what you love? Well that’s what professional athletes do. They make more money than they know what to do with. Professional athletes should not be paid as much as they are. The people and fans going to watch them and support them, can hardly afford a ticket. Don’t forget about the famous ballpark hot dogs either, but those will cost you an arm and leg. Of course, you need a souvenir so people know you were really there. It will all start…

between Professional and Collegiate athletics. College athletes are not paid to play their sport, unlike professionals. The question if college athletes should be paid arises quite often, and many people have so many different opinions. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has seen a large increase in revenue due to collegiate sports and many believe the players whom generate this revenue should partake of it. This paper will show why college athletes should remain unpaid while…

Growing up, I loved sports, watching, playing, and listening. It didn’t matter how or where, if there was a game on I was most likely watching it. As I grew even older I began to play the sports that I loved so much, football, basketball, and baseball. Being a three sport athlete my entire athletic career, I have seen the benefits that one sport brings to another. It also brings a certain level of sanity being a multi-sport athlete. Doing the same thing every day can become a grind and the brain…

Professional athletes are some of the most famous people in our country, and on top of that, they get payed a lot too. From NBA superstars like Lebron James to NFL superstars like Peyton Manning, they are idolized by many. People pay lots of money to watch them and spend lots of their time watching them as well. The question is -- are they paid and idolized too much? The answer is no, they are not. They are important to American culture, they worked extremely hard to get where they are, and they…

States of America. The term refers to a several-week long, end-of-year basketball tournament that determines the NCAA National Champion of college basketball. The tournament attracts dozens of millions of viewers, with the championship game receiving a viewing total that has surpassed 30 million. That is nearly a tenth of the entire nation tuning in to watch college students play a game of basketball. This is, of course, not even professional basketball! This goes to show how popular basketball…

As this time of year rolls around, a popular question pops up between football fans everywhere. How is NCAA football different from the National Football League? Although the two leagues are only one skill level away from each other, there are rules that are not the same. Rules like the in-bounds reception rule, the knee down rule, and the overtime rule all have altercations when you transfer from college football to the NFL. According to the website “Newsday,” in the 2015 Alabama vs. Ohio…