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A Quarter Back for the Quarterback College athletics have gained a large amount of popularity over the course of the last twenty years, stirring up the question of paying collegiate athletes. Intercollegiate athletics generate an excess amount of annual revenue to their universities, up to $124 million at the University of Alabama. Student-athletes are rewarded with a free college education in exchange because they are viewed as amateurs. Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, stated “They…

conducted by Burton, Peachey, and Wells (2017) evaluates the role of servant leadership in creating and maintaining a more ethical climate within collegiate sports. With scandals such as Jerry Sandusky's sexual misconduct at Penn State, academic scandals in various schools, sexual misconduct at Baylor, Maimi and others, it leads one to realize the collegiate sports culture needs a drastic overhaul. Burton et al. (2017) propose that organizational climates that lead to unethical behavior…

Currently college athletes represent most of colleges. Many schools have the problem of athletes getting preferential treatment versus typical college students. Many of these young students will dedicate their time on their studies and student athletes who cannot met certain academic requirements, they get special treatment by, school officials aid them throughout college. However, athletic students should be held the same educational standards as non-athletic because it serves integrity to the…

Ramin Wahab College Writing - Period 3 January 20, 2015 Entertaining Millions but no pay day! In todays society almost everyone watches a college sport for entertainement. The most largest community for collegiate athletes is the NCAA. For many years the NCAA which stands for National Collegiate Athletic Association’s. The NCAA consists of 3 main divisions Division 1, 2 and 3 with each having 300 colleges and universities in its memberships. With over 170,000 athletes in the Division One…

Yu “College Athletes Should Be Paid To Play” One of the biggest debates in sports is whether college athletes also referred to, as student-athletes” should be paid to play their sport. Since its inception in 1906, the National Collegiate Athletes Association (NCAA) has limited the amount that a student-athlete can be compensated. The opinions that we express for paying student-athletes are formulated on the basis of paying Division I and II students for their efforts on the field of…

The topic of paying college athletes is a very interesting one. Many college athletes are now demanding to be paid if they are to continue making a commitment to their sport. They put so much work in for however many years they attend their school and now many of them are demanding some sort of compensation. Athletes all over the country have fought for what they believe is their right to be paid. It has become a highly discussed topic in today’s media and will continue to be a popular one…

assistance” (Barra, 2015, p.1). Although the law includes all aspects of college, the public mainly associates Title IX with athletics. Even though Title IX is a federal law, some colleges do not enforce its rules and regulations. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recently “loosened restrictions on the forms of compensation or aid that can be extended to athletes or, in some cases, even their families” (Oguntoyinbo, 2015, p.23). Title IX should be consistently enforced in every…

Being a broke college student isn’t fun. Being a broke college athlete is worse. Broke college students aren’t just needing the money but they need the balance of time, work, and study also. No college student, let alone student athletes would ever turn down the thought of being paid for their services. So why isn’t the NCAA trying to help our college athletes out? College isn’t cheap. College students have financial obligations outside of the classroom; being on scholarship does not lighten the…

We have all heard both sides of the argument, many times. ESPN and Fox Sports have stuck this issue into our brains, no matter what people think. The issue of whether or not college athletes should be paid is a prolonged and heated debate. Whenever it seems to have gone away it comes right back again to the front page of the sports section. From the good and bad of the NCAA, to the pros and cons of income for athletes, and the motives of athletes today. This paper should help decipher all of…

universities had to come up with policies to concern future events. The popularity of football and other sports began in early 20th century where rewards became direct. In 1951, a scandal involving college sports was well-known, and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) punished a school that broke the rules heavily. However, a growing popularity of football…