Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association

I’m going to write on the opportunity costs about playing a sport in college. I play basketball and as you probably know it takes up much of your time, usually about six or seven months out of the nine we are in school. The big opportunities that I lose out on are studying more, joining clubs or sororities, getting to know more people outside of basketball and spending time with family. I also lose out on some sleep during these months because there are early mornings and late nights. I know I…

Out of all of the Division I student-athletes, approximately 53 percent of them have a scholarship of some sort. College athletics are becoming more and more popular each year. Along with the rise in popularity that these collegiate sports have, is an increase in revenue. The issue that is constantly coming up with colleges, specifically regarding sports in this day and age, is the question of whether or not college athletes deserve to get paid. The NCAA currently does not have a plan to pay…

Collegiate athletes are some of the most important students at every university. They represent their school, and they are highly valued by the university they attend. “University of Missouri Campus Protests: ‘This is Just a Beginning’” explains that about thirty black Missouri University football players stated via Twitter that they would not participate in football activities until their president, Tim Wolfe, resigned for his recent mishandling of racial issues at the university. Soon after…

For many, the concept of athletics and education seem to be a flawless pairing, a coupling that has seemed to simply be the way things were for as long as anyone can remember. In today’s society, it is so relevant, that certain colleges are immediately recognized because of their outstanding achievements in either athletics or academics, much like the way Harvard is known to be a tough, academically driven law school, whereas Pennsylvania State University is vastly well known for its football…

more globalized as network and cable companies have fought to get college games on their programs and other corporations are looking to collegiate programs for sponsorship opportunities (Masteralexis, Barr & Hums, 2012, p. 174). The most well-known division of intercollegiate athletics is the Division I program of the NCAA. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is an organization of 1,273 college institutions that is responsible for creating the rules that these…

compensated? While this topic has really heated up in recent years, the term education or exploitation seems to accumulate. College athletes have often been exploited for their talents rather than receiving a profitable education. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a billion dollar organization that is responsible for regulating college athletes and athletic programs of universities across the United States (Should). The NCAA generates billions of dollars a year and the money…

Athletes getting paid to play has been discussed for long time now. College athletes feel as if they should be played to play since they are bringing in millions of dollars to the university. Some college athletes feel like they should be getting paid because they are the reason that the university is making millions of dollars, but the university doesn’t feel like they should pay them because they gave them a scholarship that covers the athlete’s tuition, housing and other things too through…

Sport Networks: The Surprising Saviors of American Education During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s budget proposal consisted of a $2.3 billion cut in federal financial aid by raising restrictions on student loans and Pell grants (Spero n.p.). Why did Reagan want to do this? Reagan’s secretary of education, William J. Bennett, formulated an idea known as the Bennett hypothesis. Bennett suggested that an increase in federal aid money accelerates tuition rate spikes thus making it harder for students…

The score 60 to 61,down by a point,ten seconds, on the clock,the crowd is nervous.As fathers and their sons are yelling at top of their lungs. As the crowd watch their favorite team take the last shot as it seems it takes forever until the shot is made. The crowd goes wild millions of fans around the world are jumping up and down. Everyone goes home happy except a group of people. These people are the ones that brang all the excitement to the world. These people are the student athletes.…

For many years, the debate on if college athletes should be paid for publicity has raised controversy throughout society. According to the NCAA, Division I and Division II schools provide $2.7 billion in athletic scholarships annually to more than 150,000 student athletes (“Recruiting Fact Sheet,” 2016). Yet, sports administrators argue that paying for athlete’s college tuition simply is not enough as the athletes publicity is producing revenue for universities and the NCAA (Breslow, 2013).…