Response Paper #2
For years, a vast amount of people either opposed or defended the issue of should college student-athletes for playing for their respective colleges or universities. Colleges and universities should pay their athletes for the strenuous amount of work the students put in, that can be compared to that of the professional athletes. With the college students, scholarships are not distributed to most college athletes. These student athlete's names are marketed just normally as any professional's name would and all college athletes under the umbrella of the NCAA are not allowed to receive outside money. Therefore, colleges and universities should pay their student athletes revenue for their talent and use of name.
A popular argument against students being paid is that they receive scholarships that pay for everything. The actual case is full-ride scholarships are rare. According to an article by best-selling author, Lynn O'Shaughnessy, "there are only six sports where all the scholarships are full ride. These so-called head-count sports are football, men and women's basketball, and women's gymnastics, volleyball, and tennis." This means not all athletes are able to receive a full-ride scholarship due to their choice of sports. That means a college bowler or golfer is not able to receive a full-ride. She says, "only about 2 percent of high school athletes win sports scholarships every year at NCAA colleges and universities. Yes, the odds are that dismal. For those who do snag one, the average scholarship is less than $11,000." This means not all college entering high school athletes receive a scholarship that pay their entire tuition. And most colleges today, in 2014, has tuitions exceeding $15,000. For example, University of California, Los Angeles has a tuition for in-state students that exceeds $23,000 and $45,000 for out-of-state students, according to UCLA's Admissions website.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, and the colleges generates over hundreds of thousands of dollars off of college athletes. Colleges sell merchandise and apparel that displays the name of face of it's athletes. The NCAA also sells the same merchandise and apparel that displays the name of face of it's athletes but also has display them on video games. NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball series has the players names are shown on the back of the jerseys during game play and are players are shown on the cover of the game case.
It is apart of NCAA's rules and policies that forbids it's athletes receive any outside money, athletes can not receive money from contests, competitions, coaches, booster clubs, and other outside entities. What the NCAA forget is they are still college students. Journalist, Karen Frazier, says "The more conservative numbers (of college students budgets) add up to a total of $3,850, while the more generous numbers add up to $11,000 per year. Most students will fall somewhere between the two." Can they get jobs? Yes, but they are required to make, only, $2,000 per year. Indicated by a infographic, based on a national survey gave by 21st Century Insurance, on the Huffington Post, the estimated costs for transportation, eating off-campus, and textbooks combined is $3,015 and room and board alone is estimated to $8,887.
In conclusion, colleges and universities should pay their student athletes revenue for the talent and use of name. Not all college athletes or entering college athletes receive full-ride or a scholarship period. The NCAA market and displays these students in games, merchandise, and apparel that make over hundreds of thousands. Athletes are allowed to make $2,000 per year with costs exceeding well over the income limit. The NCAA, colleges, and universities need to consider offering revenue to their student athletes.
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