Sports Programs
Sports Programs
The idea of cutting sports programs from colleges to save money is, and has been, a very debatable and touchy subject for many years; whether you are for or against it. While the titans will forever clash on this subject, I am here to persuade you that it is not easy to choose just one side of the argument. There are just too many deciding factors to simplistically pick one side. Like many others I too was, and quite frankly still am, a little unsure of what side of this sinuous subject is the “better’ or “correct” one. But that’s okay! I think it’s good to be optimistic about difficult situations and that’s why I’m here to give you hard, compelling evidence that suits both sides of the story. We’ll begin this argument with the side I believe more people tend to steer clear of, and that is going for the cutting of sports programs. There are two very well constructed points I would like to acknowledge;
1) According to Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics’ Restoring the Balance, one of the biggest and main reason why sports program are believed to be cut is because “The programs itself do not generate enough revenue to cover the expenses needed to run and maintain a sports program.” (P.3)
2) Also in the text, Four-Year Changes in College Athletes’ Ethical Value Choices in Sport Situations (Priest, R.F, Krause, J.V. & Beach, J.) (1999), “Athletes may become less moral as a result of sports participation, meaning their sportsmanship and attitude for the game and towards other players decreases over the course of their sports careers.” (P.175) As we all know it takes a lot of money to run and maintain a sports program, let alone multiple ones at the same time. One belief is that if school sports programs dump loads of money into marketing, advertising and winning games that in return it will pay itself off, but the reality of it is that doesn’t. They believe that by skyrocketing the prices of tickets and memorabilia and by
The idea of cutting sports programs from colleges to save money is, and has been, a very debatable and touchy subject for many years; whether you are for or against it. While the titans will forever clash on this subject, I am here to persuade you that it is not easy to choose just one side of the argument. There are just too many deciding factors to simplistically pick one side. Like many others I too was, and quite frankly still am, a little unsure of what side of this sinuous subject is the “better’ or “correct” one. But that’s okay! I think it’s good to be optimistic about difficult situations and that’s why I’m here to give you hard, compelling evidence that suits both sides of the story. We’ll begin this argument with the side I believe more people tend to steer clear of, and that is going for the cutting of sports programs. There are two very well constructed points I would like to acknowledge;
1) According to Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics’ Restoring the Balance, one of the biggest and main reason why sports program are believed to be cut is because “The programs itself do not generate enough revenue to cover the expenses needed to run and maintain a sports program.” (P.3)
2) Also in the text, Four-Year Changes in College Athletes’ Ethical Value Choices in Sport Situations (Priest, R.F, Krause, J.V. & Beach, J.) (1999), “Athletes may become less moral as a result of sports participation, meaning their sportsmanship and attitude for the game and towards other players decreases over the course of their sports careers.” (P.175) As we all know it takes a lot of money to run and maintain a sports program, let alone multiple ones at the same time. One belief is that if school sports programs dump loads of money into marketing, advertising and winning games that in return it will pay itself off, but the reality of it is that doesn’t. They believe that by skyrocketing the prices of tickets and memorabilia and by