... not receive payment for play? It seems these days everyone has an opinion on the perks that college athletes receive mainly in the football and basketball arena. These two arenas have traditionally, and continue to bring the most money to colleges and universities as well as carrying the load for other ... by any stretch of the imagination see the numbers of spectators out on the college greens as you do in the bleachers of a football or basketball game. When you walk into any Division I school's bookstore, they"re not selling jerseys or coffee mugs with the golfers names on them. That pl...

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... is a special school event called the Turkey Bowl. Teams from the seventh and eighth grades face off in a winner take all two-hand touch football game. This is a very big event on campus, and the winners get to brag the rest of the year. More times than not, the eighth ... Parents, teachers, students and sibling all attend this grand event. The carnival includes a seventh versus eighth grade girls and boys basketball game as well as a student all-star team versus faculty game. The game is hyped for weeks, with rallies and flyers. Of course the two student only games are fun to watch, espe...

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... schools receive money for their institution playing in that game. Also they get money if they are a smaller school for filling in a non-scheduled game for a bigger university. For example, "Washburn University, a Division II school, took $25,000 in December for playing a basketball game against top-ranked Kansas" (Kansas City Star 7). For playing in this game, they received the money, which was a good amount for ... a small university but in playing this game they got blown out 90-65. So even though they received the money they may have lost some ... are just playing for themselves and...

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... to suffer. When high school kids watch TV they see Amare Stoudamire, a 21 year old kid who is making $1.7 million a year playing basketball and averaging 15 points a game. They see Kobe Bryant, a 25 year-old who is worth $12.3 million dollars a year (before endorsements) that has won three NBA titles ... the story of Ellis Richardson, a high school standout from California who stupidly applied for the draft in 1998. He went undrafted, no longer plays basketball, and is now serving jail time for robbery (Williams, 1999). These are just three examples of talented high school players that a...

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... off of athletes are their own coaches. Many coaches earn at least $1 million per year to coach one of the major sports like baseball, basketball, or football at a school. These coaches also receive bonuses for getting to the playoffs, winning championships, or breaking school records. Athletes receive no ... second job. "Last year, the NCAA Division I football championship was played on a Monday night. That same year, the national football championship game required Florida State football players to miss the first couple days of spring classes" (Forbes, 2014). It has also been reporte...

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... 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 have tradition, name recognition, and school pride to uphold with every game. Sponsors, television, and casinos, along with 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 standar...

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... student-athlete has become capricious, unnecessarily punitive and hopelessly out-of-date (McCallum, 1996). One of the biggest complaints lately from college basketball fans is that to many athletes are leaving college early to enter the draft. Now some athletes are going straight from high school ... NBA and skipping college altogether. A record number of athletes who are still eligible to play college ball have entered next month's National Basketball Association draft, and have plans for two new professional leagues for teen-agers threaten to diminish the talent pool for college teams (...

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... of the student-athlete has become unnecessarily punitive and hopelessly out-of-date (McCallum, 1996). One of the biggest complaints lately from college basketball fans is that too many athletes are leaving college early to enter the draft. Some athletes are even going directly from high school to ... the NBA and skipping college altogether. A record number of athletes who were still eligible to play college ball entered the National Basketball Association draft. There are also plans for two new professional leagues for teen-agers, which threaten to diminish the talent pool for college t...

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... after week, year after year, division I athletes have been putting their heart and soul into a sport. All their hard work for the love of the game has lead them to a University where they can showcase their skills and talent. At the division I level, it is a business where athletes contribute to ... using their voice or players band together to fight for what they believe in. Recently found in the media, former University of Connecticut men's basketball star, Shabazz Napier, made the statement of going to bed starving. His claim was that student athletes did not receive enough aid or ben...

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... . Statistics show this ever-growing rate of betting in college. "A quarter of 648 Division I football and basketball players surveyed, admitted to gambling on other college games. Four percent of players gambled on the game in which they played. Three of those surveyed received money from a gambler for not playing well." (College ... team. A true team player would never do something like that. Through all this scandal in recruitments and at the colleges is the actual game. It is an exciting game. At the end of the season there are a series of highly commercialized bowl games. These games ...

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... Wieberg again reports that, "Only 14 [schools] were operating in the black last year."" The only two sports that make the big money are football and basketball. Baseball, hockey, volleyball, soccer, swimming, softball, and other varsity sports play many games and travel quite a bit, but these sports do not have the ... models for many young people. College athletes become so popular they turn into household names. They are household names and are college kids playing a game. Stores sell their jerseys with their numbers on the back and ESPN spends just as much time talking about college ...

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... the substantial salaries professional athletes do (estimates show as high as ninety percent of student athletes never participate professionally). To substantiate this point follow the path of the Arkansas men's basketball team. During the 1994 through 1997 seasons not a single player completed their graduation requirements, and thusly, none of them received a college degree. The team's roster consisted of thirteen players whom ... were all attending the university on fully paid sports scholarship. In 1997 the team won the collegiate sports highest award, the Division One Basketball Tou...

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... to their magnified presence and reputation in the media and sports culture. Their skills as athletes contribute to the overall marketability of a college, and pull in millions of dollars in game revenue every season. For reasons like this, I believe that college athletes should be paid for their role as athletes. Athletes spend an incredible amount of time improving their skills so ... expenses are sometimes outrageous. The NCAA has an insurance plan that will help the cost of some injuries, but generally they only cover the cost if the injury happened during a game. If the injury happe...

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