Should Athletes Be Paid
Should College Athletes Be Paid
George McCray
Research and Writing
Professor Pittell
Strayer University
Corruption, scandals, suspensions, firings and a systems that is systematically flawed all the while the fact of the matter is that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a organization that is bringing in billions of dollars each year yet the labor force generating the money gets a scholarship that many athletes believe doesn’t pay enough for everything that is needed on campus so this leads the author to have to take a look at if athletes need to be paid. I will outline numerous problems that are going on in college athletics and possible solutions to problems. I will take a look at the scholarship itself to determine if that is sufficient enough for campus life. The bottom line is from the outside looking in is that there is a lot money going into the hands of administrators and coach’s with none going into the people shedding the blood sweat and tears. It would seem that the system in place at times, wants to make the student athlete stand around with their hands out accepting all and any money that they can find from an outside source, which is in violation of NCAA bylaws concerning amateur sports.
The NCAA is an association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are the watchdogs over big time college sports. So at the backing of Mark Emmert, the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), a series of improvements were pushed through after he took office. His improvements called for slightly higher academic standards for college athletes, a full scare review of the NCAA’s fat rule book and a new provision giving universities the option of offering four year scholarship. Current one year scholarships are renewable at the
George McCray
Research and Writing
Professor Pittell
Strayer University
Corruption, scandals, suspensions, firings and a systems that is systematically flawed all the while the fact of the matter is that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a organization that is bringing in billions of dollars each year yet the labor force generating the money gets a scholarship that many athletes believe doesn’t pay enough for everything that is needed on campus so this leads the author to have to take a look at if athletes need to be paid. I will outline numerous problems that are going on in college athletics and possible solutions to problems. I will take a look at the scholarship itself to determine if that is sufficient enough for campus life. The bottom line is from the outside looking in is that there is a lot money going into the hands of administrators and coach’s with none going into the people shedding the blood sweat and tears. It would seem that the system in place at times, wants to make the student athlete stand around with their hands out accepting all and any money that they can find from an outside source, which is in violation of NCAA bylaws concerning amateur sports.
The NCAA is an association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are the watchdogs over big time college sports. So at the backing of Mark Emmert, the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), a series of improvements were pushed through after he took office. His improvements called for slightly higher academic standards for college athletes, a full scare review of the NCAA’s fat rule book and a new provision giving universities the option of offering four year scholarship. Current one year scholarships are renewable at the