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In College athletics there are many aspects in determining the reasons for a particular player to receive revenue for participation in NCAA sports. This research paper will discuss the main issues in agreeing to pay college athletes versus the issues not to pay college athletes. Greed is reaching new levels in college athletics. Universities make huge profits from their athletics and now many people are advocating players getting paid as well. The idea that college athletes should be paid during their years in college is something that has been suggested for years, but there is an inherent problem with the NCAA. ... Clashes arise nearly every week accompanied by other minor problems, which root from college athlete’s lack of revenue or pay. ... If the NCAA were to pay its athletes, these often petty disputes could be forgotten. ... What the NCAA seems to fail to realize is that it is doing its athletes an incredible injustice by not paying them, one that would certainly not be tolerated in other fields. Some coaches say college athletes deserve to get paid. ... While the NCAA and its member schools make millions, even billions of dollars in TV revenues, clothing deals, and advertising contracts, the very athletes that the organization promotes can barely scrape by. Simply put, athletes are making the money, or at least allowing the NCAA to make their money, yet they receive nothing in return. ...
Revenue received from USC College athletics
Mens Teams Womens Teams Total
Basketball $1,794,117 $1,470,407 $3,264,524
Football $7,006,264 $7,006,264
Total Revenues of all Sports, except football and basketball, combined $2,937,140 $3,939,192 $6,876,332
Total Revenues $11,737,521 $5,409,599 $17,147,120
Not allocated by sport $26,213,194
Grand Total $43,360,314
In fact, college athletes are strictly prohibited from receiving any money from a source relating to their sport. ... College athletes should receive some type of financial assistance outside of his/her particular scholarship. In addition to fixing an unjust system, allowing college athletes to receive salaries or even just small stipends would solve one major problem that plagues college basketball. Paying college athletes would likely resolve the problem of high school basketball players decisions to skip college in order to make money in the NBA. If college athletes were paid, the jump to the NBA would be far less enticing.
Approximate Word count = 1944
Approximate Pages = 7.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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