Maintaining a Certain Grade Point Average as a College Athlete Should Be an Absolute Requirement Statistics show that only 2-3% of all college athletes will actually go pro. These students need to have other options when they are finished with college. Many college student athletes are poorly prepared for life when they graduate‚ and most are unprepared for anything but a professional sports career. Maintaining a certain grade point average as an athlete on a college sports team is imperative
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Should athletes be required to finish college in order to play in the pros? I believe that they should be required. Athletes should have an education in case they do not make it in the pros. Many athletes run out of the money they made while playing. By getting an education the athlete secures his/her future. Many athletes do not make it into the pros.Many athletes that did not complete college or high school have made it into the pros‚ but statistics show that only a small percentile actually
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College athletes‚ the football and basketball player go through very hard time because the sports arena is characterized by injuries‚ politics and unfair dismissal from the team. According to Tyson Hartnett‚ “Why College Athletes Should Be Paid” says‚ many players often get scholarships from a period of one or two years which covers college tuition fee‚ meal-plan‚ housing and textbook and these benefits‚ participating in college sports is considered a full time job and also the NCAA produce billion
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Why Collegiate Athletes Should be Paid In our world‚ people who bring in money with their talents are usually compensated for their efforts. It makes complete sense right? Well for college athletes‚ they bring in billions of dollars worth of revenue for their school‚ but do not get compensated for their talents whatsoever. Most people argue that only professional athletes should be paid because it is their profession‚ but people do not take in account for all the hard work and effort these student
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College athletics is a billion-dollar industry with revenue generated from hard-working‚ unpaid athletes. A college sport competition‚ such as football‚ basketball‚ and baseball‚ can be found on the television‚ radio‚ and Internet‚ almost every day. Intercollegiate athletics generate amazing ratings and revenue for both the media and universities due to their immense popularity in the United States. College athletics are big business and big money. In spite of this‚ the topic of paying college athletes
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NCAA may not seem like that big of a deal at first glance‚ it affects millions of students‚ parents‚ colleges‚ and coaches all over the United States. Players compete for colleges‚ parents pay to support their child in college‚ coaches instruct thousands of college athletes on how to play‚ and colleges admit young athletes right out of
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Pay College Athletes Currently‚ sports are clearly used for a business opportunity‚ not for the love of the game. Did you know that in 2011 the NCAA signed a 14-year contract with CBS and Time Warner Cable worth 10.8 billion dollars for just three weekends of men’s college basketball? The NCAA claims to be a non-profit association but they make an average of 11 billion dollars in annual revenue. Many people don’t realize the NCAA treats student-athletes like employees. College basketball and football
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Why Should Scholarship Athletes Be Paid? Recently in the news‚ there was a report on the five University of Kentucky basketball players that decided to enter the NBA draft after only their freshmen season. Sure‚ they were told of the millions of dollars they could make in professional sports‚ but were they given the odds of them even reaching that big payday? From picks 5-10 in the draft‚ the success rate of the player becoming a league average starter is about 30%‚ then for the rest of the first
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Kevin Lopez APENG11 R.S essay Should athletes be able to go pro before finishing college? This topic is widely debated among citizens across the United States. The answer that is commonly regarded as the safe choice is to finish school then go pro. If an athlete were to choose this choice the benefits would clearly outweigh the risks. The big benefits would be that you will have a fall back and you will be able to get a higher pay in the pros. The only risk of waiting is injury in the final
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that would be foolish‚ right? Then why do the college athletes do it? The answer is simply because the NCAA‚ or the company in the example‚ won’t pay them‚ and they don’t have anywhere else to go and play (except for LaVar Ball’s league). Therefore‚ college athletes should be paid because of the financial benefits to the NCAA and the sacrifice
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