Summary: College Athletes Should Be Paid
business and society
Advanced Question for second Exam
Fall 2013 Is it ethical for the NCAA to prohibit payment to college athletes beyond the basic expenses of tuition, books, room and board allowed by a scholarship? Personally I think it is unethical for the NCAA to prohibit payment to college athletes. I say this because college athletes generate so much revenue by playing in games for the school, especially men’s basketball during March madness. March madness brings about 90% of total revenue brought in by college sports, and u might say it’s a lot so why not just pay the basketball players, but that 90% is out of 700 million a year business which is the NCAA. So the other sports are still generating a couple million dollars a year them self’s. The NCAA has a 14 year 10.8 billion dollar contract with TV broadcasting stations such as Comcast and they also generate money from student athletes wearing different name brand uniforms and sneakers. Companies like Nike …show more content…
Well except for the fact that players don’t get paid for their labor. If you look at it players should see at least little part of whatever money they generate, for example Texas A&M start quarterback Jonny Manzel is said to be responsible for close to 2.5 million dollars in revenue generated for the school alone. Because of TV, merchandise, tickets sales and him just playing there Texas A&M gets that much extra money. He doesn’t get anything from it, in fact most college athletes are struggling money wise while on campus. Coaches on the other hand, since players can’t get paid the coaches make 6 and sometimes 7 figures. John Kalipary, the head coach at Kentucky University has a 4 million dollar salary. This just isn’t fair to the student athlete and I think they should have some sort of compensation for all that they
Advanced Question for second Exam
Fall 2013 Is it ethical for the NCAA to prohibit payment to college athletes beyond the basic expenses of tuition, books, room and board allowed by a scholarship? Personally I think it is unethical for the NCAA to prohibit payment to college athletes. I say this because college athletes generate so much revenue by playing in games for the school, especially men’s basketball during March madness. March madness brings about 90% of total revenue brought in by college sports, and u might say it’s a lot so why not just pay the basketball players, but that 90% is out of 700 million a year business which is the NCAA. So the other sports are still generating a couple million dollars a year them self’s. The NCAA has a 14 year 10.8 billion dollar contract with TV broadcasting stations such as Comcast and they also generate money from student athletes wearing different name brand uniforms and sneakers. Companies like Nike …show more content…
Well except for the fact that players don’t get paid for their labor. If you look at it players should see at least little part of whatever money they generate, for example Texas A&M start quarterback Jonny Manzel is said to be responsible for close to 2.5 million dollars in revenue generated for the school alone. Because of TV, merchandise, tickets sales and him just playing there Texas A&M gets that much extra money. He doesn’t get anything from it, in fact most college athletes are struggling money wise while on campus. Coaches on the other hand, since players can’t get paid the coaches make 6 and sometimes 7 figures. John Kalipary, the head coach at Kentucky University has a 4 million dollar salary. This just isn’t fair to the student athlete and I think they should have some sort of compensation for all that they