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Don't just pay students to play, pay them to study, too. (2012, January 18). USA Today, p. 08A. Retrieved October 28, 2014, from Opposing Viewpoints in Context.
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Eitzen, S. D. (2005). College athletes should be paid. In Sports and athletes: Opposing viewpoints (Opposing viewpoints, pp. 57-63). Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press.
I used one quote referring to basketball star Patrick Ewing.
Nay to NCAA pay to play Dear John ... the Answer Man. (2014, June 22). New York Post [New York, NY], p. 036. Retrieved October 29, 2014, from Opposing Viewpoints in Context.
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Paying college athletes would hurt traditions, NCAA chief Emmert testifies. (2014, June 19). CNN Wire. Retrieved October 29, 2014, from Opposing Viewpoints in Context.
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Pent, A. (2011). Student athlete. In L. Swayne, & M. Dodds (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sports management and marketing. (pp. 1503-1505). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412994156.n741
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Whitlock, J. (2005). College athletes should not be paid. In Sports and athletes: Opposing viewpoints (Opposing viewpoints, pp. 64-68). Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press.
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Paying College Athletes
Mohamed Khalid
Period 3
Paying College Athletes
Many college level athletes suffer from great sums of stress and anxiety, stemming from the weight of their responsibilities. This issue pertains mostly to college level football players. There are countless articles, and stories about colleges fighting over a specific college athlete. Many are bribed with extraordinary sums of money unapproved by the NCAA. Paying college athletes should not be supported, because these athletes are already compensated with the financial cost for other students will be affected and other low funded sports and activities will get cut.
Amateur football players should not get salaries. College level football players get endorsed by a full ride scholarship. They get most of their college needs and amenities they don’t need paid by the university like tuition, rooms, meal plans, books and miscellaneous expenses. At more successful football programs like the Oregon ducks, provide athletes with academic counseling, tutoring, life skill training. And even nutritional advice. All of these programs are completely unnecessary to receive an education and succeed in life. But athletes have these programs available to them regardless of the fact. Opposing Viewpoints points out “As a former, low level Divison 1 football player I can say with a clear conscience that college athletes are not getting ripped off” (Whitlock, 2005). The notion that a full scholarship is not a fair exchange for athletic services provided to a university they love is simply ridiculous. There are other countless reasons backing up why universities should not even think about paying an amateur athlete.
There are numerous articles and posts on the internet strongly agreeing that Division 1 athletes can only receive educational benefits room, board, tuition, and books, for example an athlete cannot sign with an agent to retain eligibility or do commercial. Athletes also cannot be granted clothing, transportation or other gifts. Their family cannot receive gifts of transportation to attend games or other forms of remuneration. This is one of many examples supporting salaries for college athletes Whitlock verifies “basketball star Patrick Ewing to Georgetown University during his four years there.” Whitlock also points out “Shows that he has brought more than $12,000,000 to the school”(2005). Meanwhile his services totaled up to $48,600. Providing a tidy profit of $11,951,400 for the school. College football players deal with tremendous amounts of stress trying to balance their schedule attending practice trying not to upset their coach and also try to
