In the article “Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Pay College Athletes” by John Thelin‚ it discusses the topic of paying collegiate athletes getting paid. Thelin takes the position that college athletes should not be getting paid. Thelin does agree with scholarships. During the article Thelin explains why college players shouldn’t be getting paid‚ using numbers that show if they were to legally get paid they would end up only making in the hundreds of dollars and would cost more to the school than just giving
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College Athletes Shouldn’t be Paid! I strongly believe that college athletes shouldn’t be paid because they’re still amateurs at the sport. They aren’t professionals at the sport. Even though their in college they are still learning and they need to pass school then start getting a job to make money. If you compare college amateurs to professionals there will be a big difference and observe why they get paid it will make a lot of sense. According to the text it says “A gentleman never competes
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Colin Longmore Professor Serpas WR 1- Mon/Wed 9:00am-10:50am 09 April 2012 Semester Project Pt. 2 Before they appeared on national television playing for thousands of adoring fans‚ the majority of professional athletes started off at some point as wide-eyed‚ college freshman recruits‚ eager to bring glory to their school and to themselves. The hierarchy was set. Starting off at the bottom of the totem pole‚ they knew that the only way to gain any kind of playing time was to work hard
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March Madness just days away‚ the issue of paying college athletes is as popular as ever. Despite the recent scandals‚ the popularity of college sports is at its all time high. With millions of people watching these sports‚ the broadcasting alone brings in over 700 million dollars each year for the NCAA. When the NCAA is making that much a year‚ doesn’t it make you wonder if the right people are being paid? The idea of paying college athletes to play dates back to the first intercollegiate competition
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College Athletes Shouldn’t Be Compensated Some people‚ like one of our classmates named Isaac Harris‚ believe that college athletes should get paid. That isn’t how it should be‚ though. College athletes should not receive compensation anytime soon because they already get paid‚ every college students will want compensation‚ and college athletes simply get to live the dream. First off‚ college athletes already get paid. They get paid in a way that many others wish they could. They get paid with
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“I think not paying athletes is a tradition and also there would be less fans at games if they were paid” according to Mark Emmert (President of the NCAA ). Why would fans stop watching the games if they are in full support and love the game and the players that they love to watch? College athletes deserve some money‚ so that when they get out of college they can start a life. How else would they make money? They don’t have time for a job‚ they go to the school classes‚ then to their practice‚ and
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Should We Pay College Athletes? Should we pay college athletes? That is a big topic in NCAA sports right now. People think that college athletes work hard and that they deserve to get paid. Michael Wilbon is one of these people. At first he was against paying college athletes‚ but now he is all for it. He says that he is interested in seeing the people that make revenue share a little piece of it. Then you have people like a reporter from the Daily Evergreen. He is against paying the athletes. He
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Victor Rodriguez 12/17/13 CP English 11 P.7 Why we shouldn’t be someone we’re not We all have a personality‚ but several of us have multiple. Why is it that so many of us have more than one? Could it be because we want to seem nice to other people when we present ourselves‚ or because we want to hide one side of our personality from people and show off the other? Well‚ this is the case for many of us. We all want to fit in with a group of people and be accepted
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Michael Goods En104 Should We Pay College Athletes? Should we pay college athletes? Many young adults work hard to become a college athlete‚ putting in tons of extra hours to earn the spot‚ to challenge‚ prepare and focus themselves for the opponents they’re about to face. College for most students is a large burden to pay for whether the money is coming from parents‚ family‚ scholarships‚ loans it can cause great stress and conflict in a household. Being a college athlete is like working two different
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Why college shouldn’t be free In the past years college education has been an arguable topic because college is such a big accomplishment in our society now. There is no doubt that there are students who would use this opportunity and run with it. But does that mean all students? There are kids in high school‚ where for the most part is free‚ and they don’t take it seriously. Although College being free would be a benefit for a population of students‚ there are many reasons why it should not.
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