Colonial Athletic Association

You are a very hardworking and determined college athlete, but you come from a poor family. You were born in East St. Louis. The crime rate there is unimaginable and there is hardly any opportunity, but you were lucky enough to get a scholarship from the Ohio State University. You get a full ride scholarship that covers rooming and education. You finally get on campus and you realize that you don't have enough money to get food for yourself. You go to bed hungry but you can't do anything about…

go to college for free and be able to play the sport you enjoy the most. This is the life of many college athletes. They get free rides in college, and they get to play their favorite sport as well. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, has kept the athletic events amateur since the beginning of college sports. Now, athletes are demanding that they get paid for their college services. Student athletes already get advantages in school, colleges are forced to deal with these…

Today the National Football League (NFL) is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, but little did you know its origins as the American Professional Football Association were a whole lot more humble. Its birth really originated in an Ohio auto dealership, some teams in the cities such as Decatur and Munchie and the crowning of a champion four months after the last snap was taken. 14 men huddled inside the Jordan and Hupmobile automobile showroom in downtown Canton, Ohio, on the night of September 17,…

This year the 2017-2018 season has been a great, but intense year for the University of Arizona’s men’s basketball team. At the beginning of the year, one of the assistant coaches was found guilty for taking bribes from a recruit, so that the recruit could play at the University of Arizona’s basketball team. Later on towards the end of the season, the team was suspected bribing a five star recruit to play for the team. The five star recruit was the seven foot one center from Hillcrest Prep…

website. Broadcasters like CBS make over a billion dollars off of important tournaments and games, “thanks in part to a $700,000 ad rate for a 30-second spot during the Final Four,” as Forbes’s Chris Smith writes (qtd. in Debate Club). Also, the athletic conferences the successful teams are apart of receive millions from the NCAA (Debate Club). One could say the success of many businesses is accredited to college athletes, because without them, none of it would be…

Finance Due to the lack of student attendance, the amount of funding from sponsorships has been negatively affected with average annual donations at only $60,000. As a nonprofit organization, Western Athletics relies on sponsors and donors; an unreliable and unpredictable source of money. As a result, Morton has budgeted $10,000 towards advertising events to boost student attendance with the goal of securing a price increase of $7 per student from sponsors. Although Morton wishes to use the…

money and the fame. College basketball has better game or competition than pro basketball because it is played by men and women who are competing to get to the pros and win championships. For the most part, the pros and the NCAA are two different associations dealing with recruiting, money, and major competition and rivalry. For example, in Who’s got better game: College hoops or the pros?, “A pro matchup cannot equal the classic rivalry of North Carolina and Duke,” quoted Fred Bowen. The NCAA…

athlete to accept gifts from agents while they are still collegiate athletes. It was reported that Reggie Bush and his family accepted around 100,000 dollars worth of gifts during this time. During the 2005 football season Bush had an unbelievable athletic year and went on to receive the Heisman trophy. This trophy is given to one player each year, who is voted by a committee as the best player in the nation for that year. After the first set of accusations of Bush and his family accepting…

March 29 2018 ENGRD 310 Should or Should not College College Athletes be Paid to Play? Whether or not college athletes should get paid to play has gone through it’s ups and downs. The NCAA ( National Collegiate Athletic Association ) is a non profit organization that helps establish the athletic programs in colleges. There are many good reasons why college athletes should get paid to play: scholarships that don’t cover everything, the pressure student athletes are under from school, illegal…

with being a student athlete. Being a student athlete brings a lot of hard work. It takes time management and learning to balance class and practice all at once. Along with the hard work comes with difficult life style changes and opportunities. Athletic scholarships are very beneficial to keep majority of the athletes, grades up and achieve academic success. Student…