... the dollar amount in which a player is worth. "They came out with that the average football player is worth the amount of $120,000 for their big-time college and 265,000 for the average basketball player. Even though the athletes as a whole bring in ... believed that at least a couple of dollars should have been given to them seeing they had no money at all. At some colleges, college athletics are a key source of income, and they attract students to their institutions. Universities depend on their athletes to produce and maintain the popularity ... in all university student services and...

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... well that sports team performs, which can mean higher standings, the better they are and a chance to win a national title may bring an ample amount of money to the university. College atheltics compared to the ungraduates is no where near even these days. It's hardly a secret, for instance, that most major universities today are primarily interested in two things: research ... coaches' salaries have escalated. At the same time, officials at the athletic conferences are not interested in having the NCAA invade their increasingly lucrative turf. The seemingly endless stories in college at...

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... profit for the entire season would be between eleven hundred twenty-five and fifteen hundred seventy-five million dollars" (Should College Athletes Be Paid 1). Those estimates are just for football alone and there are many other sports that generate just as much. Some of the other sports are baseball, basketball, ... CBS for rights to Division 1A tournaments is bigger than any single professional sports league deal with any other network" (Research Finds Greed Rodriguez 2 1). College Athletics today is a billion dollar industry in which the athletes are a big part of. "Division 1 schools...

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... the student athlete. The NCAA has created rules and regulations to stricken the athletes from certain behaviors and necessities of life, like money. As a college student I have particularly become friends with a lot of athletes who are struggling to survive because of money problems. It is a privilege for them to ... will be paid (Division I)." It may sound like a good deal, but what about clothing and food. Because of certain life necessity I propose that college athletes should be paid. On November 17, 2002 the University of Alabama was charged with public infractions. In other words, ...

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... the teams played), and number of losses." (Barrett) Candy Reagan, of the Abilene Reporter News and strong supporter of some sort of playoff system in college football, feels that letting computers have a say in who is crowned national champion is "about as bad as letting a bunch of coaches and sports writers decide ... the seasons gotten as long as thirteen and fourteen games. Twenty years ago teams played eleven games at the most, and I feel that if college football went back to an eleven game schedule, my proposal would answer all critics. I recently saw an interview with the head coac...

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... wondered why we were put in the category as being not educated so I felt it's time to research it. The "Dumb-Jock" stereotype originated in the 1930's when a football player at Ohio State College needed to pass an economic test to be able to play in the big game, so the whole class got together and tutored him for a week straight so ... play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." But during the 1930's athletes weren't perceived as uneducated, it wasn't until the late 1980's that statistics could back up the theory that athletes ...

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... wondered why we were put in the category as being not educated so I felt it's time to research it. The "Dumb-Jock" stereotype originated in the 1930's when a football player at Ohio State College needed to pass an economic test to be able to play in the big game, so the whole class got together and tutored him for a week straight so ... play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." But during the 1930's athletes weren't perceived as uneducated, it wasn't until the late 1980's that statistics could back up the theory that athletes ...

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... the largest athletic budgets. This is the division that makes the most money for its schools and for the NCAA. The most profitable sports in the NCAA are College football bowl series (FBS) and Division I college basketball. One of the main principles of the NCAA is that its student athletes are amateurs. This means that players may not be compensated monetarily in any ... away from athletics? Thus many student athletes are not able to earn similar spending money for clothes, snacks and entertainment that their classmates are earning. The previous time spent by college football players, ...

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... become worthless promises if they do not result in a certificate. According to Louis Barbash, a television producer, 3 out of 10 basketball players graduate, while 4 out of 10 football players graduate. Many athletes emerge from college illiterate, without a degree, and without a professional athletic career. The system is cheating these individuals. It is a known fact that 44% of all African Americans in collegiate ... to pay its principal producers zero salary. Shannon Brownlee and Louis Barbash stress this point in their essays supporting professional zing college athletics. Athletes ...

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... in two ways: one being opportunity, and the other as indentured servitude. College sports like football and basketball hold a huge segment of the entertainment industry making those two particular sport seasons year round. Bigger universities ... many other businesses have a huge stake in this industry. With so much pressure to succeed, big sport programs like Duke basketball, Florida football, and Notre Dame football need top recruits to maintain or raise the standard of play to which they hold themselves. The competitive nature of the sport now leeks ... off the field and may be more...

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... taking money from endorsements that the colleges receive from TV networks or big-time businesses such as Nike or Reebok. CBS spent over $6 billion dollars to secure the NCAA men's college basketball tournament (Bagnato, 2001, p.1). By the time you divide that up between the years under the contract and all the teams involved in the tournaments through the years each team ... each school. This gives them just enough to keep up the gyms, and pay all of the coaches. Paying all college athletes to play would be very expensive. They have discussed just paying athletes who play the four major...

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... that, since it would be unfair to the rest of the students, who are not in a football or basketball teams. Tony Lopez says that scholarship is enough salary for student's athlete in the article "Paying College Athletes: Point/. Counterpoint". For some student the only way to college is through sports, because they come from low-income families. Thus, scholarship is a unique opportunity ... also saying that elimination of the scholarships will bring the schools more students as students, not as athletes who have to struggle to graduate from the college. The athletic scholarship guarantees ...

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... test and the quality of testing for those players. The Associated Press conducted an investigation, which closely monitored the situation going on in college football and based its results on dozens of interviews with players, testers, dealers and experts and a strict analysis of weight records of over 61 ... ,000 players. All though NCAA professionals believed they had the problem under control, this investigation revealed that the ongoing issues with NCAA football and steroids is still a large problem in the sport. (The Associated Press). Players are more likely to test for street drug...

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... and efforts, and pay would lessen financial pressures on SAs that lead them to violate NCAA rules and leave school early to enter professional drafts. College scholarship athletes are held to a stringent code of NCAA rules that budget their time and hinder their ability to acquire and keep a paying job ... . Student-athletes work hard, and much of their time is absorbed by their studies and their sport. It must be difficult to lead a regular college life when one can't hold a job, are traveling to away games, and play sports all the time. The fact is that there are only so ... money by ...

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... earn them and also through respect after we have fulfilled our contracts. The percentage of student-athletes receiving job offers right out of college is much higher than the average student. However, recent studies have shown that male student-athletes are putting more emphasis on their sports ... than on their education. This is causing the respect aspect of playing college athletics to be falling tremendously. The documentary talked about both sides of the idea of athlete compensation. They showed two examples of student ... athletes deserving and non-deserving of such benefits. One ...

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... for men and women athletics. In most schools, there are more women sports than men sports and I believe the following is why: because of college institutions with football programs. Football teams, many times, carry up to 80-90 football players, most of them of which are there on athletic aid (scholarships). Since scholarships are to be equal for men and women athletes, and since ... women's football does not exist, all those scholarships have to be accounted for in other women's sports to equal the amount of scholarships offered to men sports. So basically ... , football eats up most o...

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... in athletics by dropping many men's sports, such as wrestling, men's gymnastics, and men's swimming, some have gone as far as cutting football programs. Since 1991, 20,800 male sports have been eliminated while only 5,800 women's sports have been added. Title IX has now turned into ... . There is no excection for the "nontraditional" undergraduates (students older than 23), who are now making up almost half of the countries college students. Among today's female undergraduates 29 percent are "nontraditionals with children, 11 percent are single mothers and 79 percent have jobs. Californi...

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This issue has been on the forefront of college campuses the country over; this issue is gender equality in sports, introduced in 1972 as Title IX of the Education Amendments, was put in place to set ... financial assistance (collegenews). The basis of my arguments will be the pros and cons of men vs. women in sports and the impact that women have had on college campuses and in the media. It is in the news as well as on campuses that Title IX is responsible for the reduction in the support for men's sports ... federally funded education programs, the CSUN event brings up the questions now face...

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... excellence in the athletic and academic realm, student-athletes must quickly adjust to balancing the roles of athlete and student in conjunction with their personal lives. The adjustment to college may differ from the average student based on the time commitments and demands student-athletes experience in their sport. These demands especially while in season may restrict the athlete's ... status as females and as athletes from one another. An individual's athletic role and not their gender influence stereotypes. Of those surveyed, masculine roles were determined by individuals participa...

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... have these same characteristics which could be one of the reasons they gamble. Many cases of college athletes loosing eligibility over gambling exist. One in particular was at a Division I university where student athletes lost 20-30% playing time in a season over betting on professional football and basketball games. In another case at a Division III School, baseball players placed bets using parlay ... on schools, the lottery money just replaces it. The former school money is used somewhere else. The Georgia lottery can be considered an exception because it awards good academic studen...

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... Sports says, "Pay for play won't work for colleges." Edwards mentions how if colleges start paying some athletes, such as football players, what will be next. Paying for all athletes in college, such as golf, hockey, basketball, etc. According to Caleb Langston, college athletes do put a lot of time in theisport of choice and it makes for a difficult time to make extra money ... . But, Langston also goes on to mention how student athletes receive scholarship money that usually covers all expenses related to college life. It is also stated that in comparison to all other students, having ...

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... This story explains how athletes are let through school without any education what so ever. The author, Louis Barbash, explains to the reader how college athletes are made to have no social life when they are in school. He uses Tom Scates and other previous "student-athletes" as perfect ... examples to prove they aren't receiving the proper education while in college. Scates has a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University where he played basketball. Although Scates is a graduate of college and has a degree, ten years later he is just a doorman at a hotel in Washington. Since ... his...

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... trouble aren't talked to about what they can or can't do. I know some don't have any regard to the rules, but still some just don't know. I know that we as a football team have the rules meeting before the season, but I wonder if all colleges go as in depth as we do. I think that one of the biggest contributors to all the ... trouble and chaos that goes on in college athletics, is the media. They can take any story and make a big deal about it for no reason. That is what happened to us and other Texas schools just the ... everyone up. Ever since I was little I have wanted to be a teach...

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... recent popular performance enhancer, came about when Mark Mcguire was found using it the year he hit 70 homeruns. This drug is legal in baseball but is illegal in football. When young college athletes see a professional athlete like Mark Mcguire use a drug like this, it makes them want to go out and use it. In many cases these kids don't know the ... long term side-effects of these drugs. The most recent drug that has everyone talking about among college athletes is a drug called Creatine. This is a illegal drug in NCAA certified college sports. It is legal however in professional sport...

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A college athlete attends a top-notch university to play the sport that he so desires on a full scholarship. The only reason that this student is enrolled in this university is to play ... for a good athletic university. " Money keeps academic standards anemic, allowing member schools to win by playing the best athletes regardless of whether they intend to graduate or even belong in college" (Kansas City Star, 2). This shows that without money for scholarships and grants, many athletes would not have the chance to attend these top-notch institutions. In fact, the NCAA is ... bringing in for...

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