Student Athlete Greed

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful” – Warren Buffett. In the article, “The Shame of the NCAA” by Dave Zirin. He discusses about the controversies that goes around the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Student athletes that works so hard to compete in college games and get no compensation for it when the NCAA collects millions of profits out of them. Student athletes should get payed because of the sacrifices, hard work, and dedication they put into college sports and to give credit where its due. In the beginning of the article, Zirin calls out the NCAA for being greedy and using the students to earn money and for the students who dedicates themselves for these
Zirin points it out when he interviewed a former college athlete Dave Meggyesy. He said, “These are more than full-time jobs…It’s more cynical system now than when I played…”. The student’s athletes now a day practice all year round which is too much for a student athlete who doesn’t get paid. The college sport they play put them at so much stress and hard work to not get something out of it. Student athletes who sacrifices everything in the college sports. Zirin showed it when he interviewed a former LSU coach Dale Brown. He said, “You see everybody getting richer and richer. And you walk around you can’t put gas in your car? You can’t even fly home to see your parents?”. These students earn nothing but sacrifices a lot for the name of sports. Yet they’re still treated like free wage laborers. A scholarship is not enough to sustain the everyday needs of a student, specially a college athlete who risk all for college sports. A compensation would be sufficient to give credit for all the hard work, sacrifices, and dedication a college athlete put into these college sports. From all the advertising, all year-round practice, and not being able to see your parents, if someone is earning from all the hard work there and if it’s not them then it’s not fair