... 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 ... 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 coach of th...

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... to make money because they don't want the athletes to cash in on their image in any way. The average salary for a division I football, basketball, or baseball head coach is $2-3.5 million (Brian). The universities should step up and pay their employees; the student athletes. Virtually every ... College athletes put their own body and health at risk to the same extent as a professional athlete. In the last few years 13 football players in the Midwest alone were diagnosed with Rhadomlysis (Starner). This disease causes skeletal tissue to breakdown and get into your bloodstream, ... athlet...

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... that were held with President Theodore Roosevelt. Reforms were the topic of that meeting due to many repeated injuries and deaths in college football which were causing schools to shut down the programs. After the meeting, Chancellor Henry MacCracken of New York University set up a meeting ... with thirteen other colleges and universities to formally make changes to the college football rules. In 1905, sixty-two other colleges joined what they called the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS). This organization ... was a professor who stepped in as coach just...

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... college athletes 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 ... don't 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 ... Wh...

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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 drugs...

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... One of the most famous instances in which a player got caught up in one of these black market scandals was former University of Southern California football player, Reggie Bush. Bush was an all-star talent, definitely bound to go on to bigger and better things in the NFL, but while ... amount of money each person gets? Does a benchwarmer make as much as the starting quarterback? Does a senior make as much as a freshman? Would the football team make more money than the basketball team? And what about the soccer or gymnastics team? All of these questions and more are what make people skep...

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... and their greater competitive nature. However, student athletes are not the only undergraduates with gambling problems. "A study by the University of Cincinnati of 648 Division I intercollegiate men's basketball and football respondents indicated that 25.5% had gambled money on other college sporting events, 3.7% had gambled money on a game in which they had played (NCAA, 2002)."" "According to a ... the players the enormous influence they have on today's youth as role models (FBI, 2002). The NCAA, with the FBI, has enhanced communication lines with the National Football League, the Nati...

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... of Georgia website. The most controversial example of universities and the NCAA using the images of athletes to make money is with video games, most notably EA Sports's popular NCAA Football franchise. In 2009, former Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, EA Sports, and the Collegiate Licensing Company claiming that it was an exploitation of student athletes ... game likenesses are easily identifiable because most of their characteristics like appearance and hometown are almost exactly the same (Thomas). On easportsworld.com, gamers can post clips from p...

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... wear and endorse his merchandise. Of course, it is against NCAA sanctions and regulations to accept gifts with eligibility remaining. Bey broke these sanctions by giving some of the Seminole football players free airplane tickets, hotel accomodations, and clothing to endorse his products (Steptoe and Swift 20). So, even though a school may earn millions of dollars a year from their athletic ... would have been a much more mature person as well as a more developed basketball player. However, Garnett opted to jump into the NBA and earn his millions. Like Garnett, many college football play...

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... individuals that make money 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 bonus for breaking records, winning championships, or ... Kentucky, makes $5.5 million a season. That's almost 14 times the amount made by the president of the United States" (Washington Post, 2014). Calipari is not alone. Seventeen college football coaches a...

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... the funny but yet breathtaking thing is that CNN puts 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 ... maybe never will be. When I went to visit Ohio State two weeks ago Mr. Jim Bollman, the offensive coordinator of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, told me that the football teams money that is received is used to pay for all thirty-six sports in the whole school. When I finally comprehende...

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... there. One of the most overlooked and wrongly advertised reasons why college athletes should not be paid is that colleges and universities do not have the money for it. College football is the most profitable of all the college sports, but most people do not understand what real "profit" is. The top 25 college ... football programs, based on football expenses and revenue, on average create about 25 million dollars in revenue per year. The top 25 is packed with schools like the University of Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State, ... Texas, Florida State, LSU you get the point. Overall, there...

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... of "College Sports and the Myth of Amateurism"," Allen Sack, writes on his own experiences as a scholarship football player at the University of Norte Dame. "Not receiving additional payments for my performance on the football field showed me that education was the real reason I was in college and that we are not professionals ... a senior writer for bleacherreport.com, pondered the question, "How much more can we give them? " She calculated the bill for a Division I football team traveling from the east coast to Los Angeles. It came to over $300,000 dollars, just for the few days they we...

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... 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 of the ma...

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... . I've always 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 he could 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...

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... men's opportunities 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 a ... by cutting its championship men's baseball, soccer, and swimming (5). Another big problem with the gender quotas is football, it has an exceptionaly large all-male roster without any female counterpart. It takes up to three or four female teams to offset ... what happens to the march...

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... across the nation compete in all sorts of athletic competitions for the common goal of winning that specific sport's championship. It is currently football season in this great nation of ours, and if one was to turn on their television on a Saturday, s/he would be bombarded ... game after game. Some networks even have names for these Saturdays; for instance, ESPN calls it "College Game Day" and Fox Sports calls it "College Football Saturday." Americans have a sort of passion for college sports. Many institutions are known for their prestigious teams, and it is sad to say that in many ... ...

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... . I've always 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 he could 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...

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... from? Who is going to pay for it all? It's pretty much common sense that if college athletes get paid, costs will go up. Football players will be paid the most because of popularity. The question then would be, how much? Of the three hundred plus colleges and universities that ... compete under National Collegiate Athletic Association sanctions, only twenty two schools brought in revenue in 2010. Ohio State University's football net profit and alumni donations added up to "approximately forty million dollars" (Dosh). Although that does sound like a lot of money, it only ... of the first...

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... 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. ... employees of these institutions and thus should be compensated as such. The average American work week consists of 40 hours. The typical NCAA division I football player spends 43.3 in season hours at practice, games, treating injuries and attending required team meetings. So where is the time for such ... athlete...

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... not promising. Scholarships 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 ... stress this point in their essays supporting professional zing college athletics. Athletes make nothing, but colleges make a bundle. The major conferences have a 900...

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... not worthy of amateur status. According to www.ncaa! .org, "A study by the University of Cincinnati of 648 Division I intercollegiate men's basketball and football respondents indicated that 25.5% had gambled money on other college sporting events, 3.7% had gambled money on a game in which they had played, and that ... loyal to his team and throws the game. Stevin Smith formally of Arizona State University was convicted of sports bribery, also a Northwestern football player and two Northwestern basketball players were convicted of sports bribery (Herbert, 15). According to New York Time...

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... debate across the nation. Each year, millions of dollars are produced from college sports, and especially in sports such as basketball or football. Those who support paying college athletes, point out the millions of dollars of revenue created through football and basketball alone, questioning the logic behind completely withholding these revenues from the athletes who are largely responsible for generating them. While ... , for which there is no charge. They are usually provided tutors and study aides, along with the finest medical care and the best food the campus has to offer. Many fo...

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... debate across the nation. Each year, millions of dollars are produced from college sports, and especially in sports such as basketball or football. Those who support paying college athletes, point out the millions of dollars of revenue created through football and basketball alone, questioning the logic behind completely withholding these revenues from the athletes who are largely responsible for generating them. While ... , for which there is no charge. They are usually provided tutors and study aides, along with the finest medical care and the best food the campus has to offer. Many fo...

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Pay to Play Student athletes look at college sports 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 have tradition, name recognition, and school pride to uphold with every ... . 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 ...

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