Colonial Athletic Association

Mateo Sanchez NFL football player I want to be a professional football player when I get older. I would want to play as a tight end for the Oakland R aiders. It is not as easy as it seems to become a professional football player, it takes guts, hard work, and heart. You do not need much schooling just need to get drafted from high school to a college with good grades.You do not need much education besides physical education. You have to be able to hit hard, run fast, and be tough in general. The…

Saturday morning during college football. The sponsors, fans, pageantry, etc., is astronomical and continues to grow exponentially. Undoubtedly, college athletics is “big business” and is often viewed as a separate entity. Duke professor of public policy, economics and law, Charles T. Clotfelter, offers an interesting viewpoint on college athletics, stating faculty members’ blindness to the significance of big-time sports amounts to operating in a parallel universe, which is impossible, because…

Over the past few years college athletics have gained tons of popularity and exposure all over America through television, the internet, and social media. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and participating colleges have earned increased revenues because of all the exposure that they have acquired. Even though the NCAA makes millions of dollars from sponsors, commercials, and tournaments, the players who play for the college teams receive no compensation whatsoever for all…

academic environment in which acquiring a quality education is the first priority.” Under the amateurism rule that was adopted in 2007, athletes are strictly restricted from making contracts with professional teams, getting paid for participating in athletics, receiving benefits from agents and obtaining prize money from competitions and matches. According to the NCAA, amateurism prevents student athletes from commercial exploitation and helps students maintain their education. But is amateurism…

College athletes have the problem where they do not get paid to play the sport. This is a big problem because the athletes in college do the same work as pros in the league and put their bodies on the line. For example, in the National Collegiate Athletic Association or the NCAA, athletes have to train hard every day, and play games every day and they do not get paid for it, while the NBA does: In the 2013 NCAA tournament Louisville player Kevin Ware suffered a horrific injury to his lower right…

needs to be modified. Additionally, how its governing body should compensate the student-athletes for their services while in school is necessary for today’s landscape of big-time college sports. I likewise have a son who participates in college athletics, and I wish to help encourage change. I don’t think the NCAAs current structure…

Scandals occur regularly in college athletics.(( Ravi Lulla, 10 Worst Scandals in NCAA History, Bleacher Report (Sept. 28, 2011)) While some of the scandals are truly horrific and break society’s laws (see Jerry Sandusky), others on their face seem relatively minor.(( Jerry Sandusky’s Son Alleges Even Worse Abuse, USA Today (July 18, 2014), http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2014/07/18/jerry-sandusky-son-matthew-alleges-even-worse-abuse/12823231/.)) These violations generally consist…

Zach Aswegan Ms. Brewster English 1 5 October 2015 Truth behind paying NCAA athletes “BAM” a linebacker nailes the running back and causes a fumble which leads to a touchdown, they win the game. What people didn’t see was the running back got injured. The running back is trying to make a career in football but has to play good in college first. Since, he got injured he won’t be able to make it to the major leagues. So, all the work he put into the sport without getting paid just got lost.…

Summary of “College Athletes Need to Be Compensated for Efforts In “College Athletes Need to be Compensated for the Efforts” published in the University Wire, which was written by Eric He who asked, why college athletes do not get paid when the university gains so much from the athlete. He argues that college athletes should be compensated for what they do and should be given more then just a scholarship. He explains how the Kessler, the quarterback for the University of Southern California,…

In 1910, an association called the NCAA, or the National Collegiate Athletic Association was founded. The NCAA is an association dealing with college athletes. It “regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals,” according to Wikipedia. College athletics have been around for a long time, over a hundred years. That’s crazy to think. But the people who make these athletics possible is the athletes themselves. Without them, the college athletics would be…