Have you ever wondered do college athletes get paid? How do they pay for all their expenses? Where does all the money from tickets sales go? Can college athletes get sponsors? If you found yourself ever wondering about these questions on college athletes? Then this article “Should College Athletes Be Allowed to Get Paid,” written by Spencer Bokat-Lindell, a writer for the New York Times in the opinion section, is for you. As I began to read the article, I...
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One of the biggest discussions in the sports world is should student athletes get paid to go to college? This type of pay is different from FAFSA and a full ride scholarship. I value these athletes having money for the essentials and necessities to live. Student athletes should get paid to go to college because their sport is their job. The amount of practice hours a week, the homework overload, all the traveling, and the amount of practice days during...
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Introduction Motor skill relies on the function of a human’s brain, bones, joints and nervous system. According to the familiarity of humans, we can perform a different degree of fine motor skills with higher agility. In volleyball, one of the basic skills is digging and it is widely used in competition. Players’ skills will make an influence on the game a lot and the movements of them is having great importance. (Sozen, 2012) In a game, there is at most...
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Playing your favorite sport should be more rewarding, imagine playing for a team and not getting paid. College athletes could be playing a dangerous game where they are risking at getting injured everyday not only in a game but at practice as well. I think they should get paid because some of them don’t have money for food and other useful things around their homes. There’s so much more reasons on why college athletes should get paid. They take so...
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Today we often hear about scandals, and corruption within the NCAA, players receiving certain benefits or being paid somehow under the table. If the NCAA legally allowed to pay their athletes corruption would spread throughout the Association and would require massive oversight into each and every university by fair, and unbiased regulators (Johnson & Acquaviva, 2012). There are also many practical issues with paying collegiate athletes. How much would the student athletes be paid? Would better, more electric players get...
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Waking up every morning at four and improving in my craft every day in my sport, gives me the understanding and appreciation of college athletes, playing at such an elite level. NCAA College athletes use the time for their craft, dedication to their college sports, make their sport their top priority, and colleges make millions of dollars off these student-athletes through marketing, yet student-athletes aren’t given the equal opportunities as they deserve. This article gives a prime example, Zion Williamson...
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When Zion Williamson blew through his shoe and injured his knee in a meaningless game vs UNC on February 20, 2019, it sparked a nationwide debate over whether athletes at the college level deserve to be compensated as if they are professionals. Most people would argue that yes, college athletes do deserve to be compensated because most of them have millions of dollars waiting for them in the professional leagues and are jeopardizing their future by even playing in the...
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College athletes, they are arguably some of the hardest working students in the school systems. They attend their classes and are required to maintain their grades, while also behaving as some of the best students. Along with living the life of an average student, they also have an extremely demanding schedule with the sport they play to go along with it. Lately, the most easily sparked debate is whether student-athletes should be paid for playing sports. Those who believe that...
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Participation in sports such as basketball, American football, soccer, track & field on a college level has recently ignited issues which have caused controversy both in the United States and across the world. Players are most commonly 18-19 years old when they accept scholarships to play these sports at some of the world’s top universities, predominantly within America. The scholarship gives the student-athletes free college tuition, and provides them with equipment and facilities, but does not offer or allow any...
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On October 29th, the National Collegiate Athletic Association top governing board passed a law allowing college athletes to earn endorsements and sponsorships. The law states that student-athletes are to be treated like non-athletes attending their universities, and they should have a “clear distinction between college and professional opportunities” (Getty, 2019). In the past, rules have been in place so athletes do not see economic benefits other than scholarships. They are not allowed to sign with an agent or receive gifts...
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Many children start off playing sports at a young age. From there, it’s when they decide if it’s something they want to continue or discontinue. As they become of age the question: “Is this something I want to take serious?”, surfaces. Student athletes work twice as hard as anyone else in school. Not only are they focusing on keeping their grades at an acceptable range, but they’re also working to perfect their sports skills. Playing at a college level makes...
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College athletes shouldn’t be compensated for playing sports at the collegiate level, but for their advertisement and use of their names in video games and products. College athletes do not get exploited by their colleges for playing sports, but by organizations who are taking all of the profit at the cost of the athlete. Introduction Looking back, college athletes started playing sports originally to get their college education paid for, nothing more. And even though that’s still the case, college...
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As a member of the Student council and Former Cheer Captain, I would like to share my ideas on who I think is a good candidate for Cheer Captain. To be a Cheer Captain it is more than just a badge, it is about making a positive influence on students and staff at the school. I believe both individuals are great candidates for Cheer Captain, but Morgan is the better candidate! Leigh would make a good Captain because she is...
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Imagine working for countless hours, six days a week, then making multiple performance just so someone else can be paid millions. That is the life of a college athletes. College athletes should be paid and here’s why. They are working their butts off so that their team can have a good record and to draw more attention and fans to their arena and to get more money to their school from all the fans buying their tickets to watch the...
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Over the past decade there has been a major debate at the hands of the United States that is still undecided upon. Do NCAA Athletes deserve the right to be paid for their commercials, brand deals, and jersey sales? When it comes to the citizens of our current society the viewpoint is split evenly for the most part. In my opinion the athletes of major college teams that bring in millions, or even billions in some cases, for their schools...
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Every year college and universities earn millions of dollars from broadcasting games,selling jerseys , merchandise , and most of all using the athletes name for popularity.People who think college student-athletes should get compensated often think the students’ names and pictures are used as a form of advertising, so they should receive some cash reward for that . The other multitude think they should not get compensated because most college athletes receives thousands of dollars of scholarship thus “ getting compensated”...
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Affirmative: Injuries are a common factor in everyone’s lives but especially one of an athlete. There have been multiple cases of students who couldn’t go into the big leagues because of a bad knee in the lighter cases or paralyzed/brain-damaged in the more serious cases. School’s are not required to pay for any lasting injury. While the NCAA does enforce that athletes must have insurance, students that were paid for their risk could cover what insurance doesn’t or to make...
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150 years ago Princeton and Rutgers University started game we now know as American football, now back then college football wasn’t as big as it is today. There isn’t 100,000 screaming fans in the stands or television broadcasting the game,well back then they didn’t have T.V and only 100 people showed up for the first game, and it certainly wasn’t as exciting or fun to watch as it is today but it laid down the foundation of the for what...
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When people hear the term “NCAA,” which means National Collegiate Athletic Association, they often think of basketball or football. While there are a variety of sports under the NCAA, these seem to be the most popular. The NCAA offers sports at three levels, Division I, II and III. In total, there are 492,000 student-athletes. How many of these athletes go pro? Only 2%. The NCAA was founded in 1910 with a membership of only 62 colleges and universities. During the...
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Most student athletes get a full-ride scholarship to the college they choose. Within the sports culture, full scholarships and partial scholarships are not uncommon, with many players getting the full experience in college without paying (Alford). Some believe that student athletes should be paid due to how much money they help bring into the college and the impact the sport has on their bodies. Also, how athletes could possibly get injured in their time of playing for their college, making...
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As a college Athlete Student, I notice that it is Special privileges taking hold in colleges now. You may have seen about it on sports channels, around the media, television set, or the school they attend, and some may have received at first hand. College athletes can bear out the regulations in not being reprimanded for the action, not adapting to the lack of the striatum, such as grades and appearance, which make it unacceptable to the non-students. Colleges are...
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Abstract This philosophical research paper aimed to describe and find out whether being a student-athlete is worth the additional effort. The study analysed and evaluated this by comparing the positive effects and negative effects of student-athleticism. This was achieved by handing out questionnaires that garnered the opinions of current student-athletes and their perceptions and experience of student-athleticism and the impact it has on their lives. This paper supports the stand that being a student-athlete has a big positive impact to...
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For the past decades, student athletes have been under an overwhelming amount of stress. Sports can be a feature of numerous understudies’ high school understanding. They give understudies chances to make new companions, have a fabulous time, and figure out how to adjust homework with after school exercises. With every one of these advantages, there are also potential negatives. A few understudies could be excessively worried, or troubled with homework. Student athletes’ primary cause to their overwhelming stress is due...
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Abstract In today’s society students are exposed to stress. Stress is a process in which when an organism’s welfare is threatened or challenged by environmental events, prompting the organism to respond to that threat (Gatchel, 1996). Student Athletes experience different stressors depending on their athletic status such as time demands, injuries and conflict with their coaches or teammates (Humphrey, Yow, & Bowden, 2000; Papanikolaou et al., 2003). The main focus of the research is the experiences of Senior High Athlete...
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For many athletes in high school, the goal is to have the chance to play a sport in college. However, questions they may ask them themselves are, “Is it worth it? or “Am I going to be able to focus on my schoolwork while maintaining a full-time job?”. With all the time that athletes put into the sport in between the classroom, field, weight room, practices, and film, students consider their sport as a job. There are several reasons why...
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This research will discuss about difficulty of being a student athlete. researcher chose this topic because being a student athlete herself, She already know the feeling of being one. And because her, being a student athlete it makes her more eager to know more about the struggles and difficulties they’re facing, as time goes by. Being student athlete is not easy because ‘Being a student athlete is one of the most rewarding and stressful thing ever. You have to maintain...
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Sports have been around for years. In 1636, lacrosse became the first sport in America. Later on in 1837, education came along which led to high school and college and of coulp[rse sports got bigger as time went on which led us to student-athletes. In today’s modern society, being a student- athlete is popular. Being a student-athlete is about being a student first; therefore, keeping up good grades should be a top priority. To be a student- athlete, it requires...
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Money is the root of all evil. While this may seem be an extreme explanation and perhaps a bit of an over exaggeration, in many ways, this verse defines the issues plaguing modern day college athletics. In fact, the prioritization of money in college athletics is not a recent epidemic; its roots have been placed in college sports since its inception. As even during the first ever college athletics event in 1852, a boat race between Harvard and Yale, the...
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Athletes are afforded many positive opportunities such as traveling, making new friendships, receiving praise, and experiencing the thrill of winning. For many athletes; however, these experiences are accompanied by anxiety. There are two components of anxiety, a cognitive component and a somatic component. (Liebert & Morris, 1967; Borkovec, 1976; Davidson & Schwartz, 1976 as cited in Kais, K.; Raudsepp, L., 2005). Cognitive anxiety refers to negative expectations as well as having concerns about performance, the cost of failure, negative self-evaluation,...
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While college football and basketball make billions of dollars every year, none of it goes to the people who generate this money – the players. Added on to their regular schoolwork, hard enough for many students, players must dedicate their life to the sport. This raises one of the most discussed question in college sports – should student athletes be paid? There are two sides to this argument, both with different points. Zion Williamson, one victim to the NCAA’s robbery...
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