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NCAA Compensation for Athletes

            As a current Student-Athlete I can honestly say I do not believe athletes should be compensated. My reason for this thought is that athletes get paid through scholarships if they 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 example was of a football player named Devon Ramsey. He played for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had submitted an English paper that he wrote to a tutor who worked at the Academic Help Center for athletes. The tutor made some slight punctuation corrections and added one concluding paragraph. A professor thought this paper to be an example of plagiarism and submitted the case to the NCAA. Without even a fair trial and any evidence, the NCAA board ruled Devon under Academic Dishonesty and permanently dismissed from all collegiate athletics. This was a poor judgment made by the NCAA because when you look at the fine print, Devon was one of the only players on the UNC-CH football team who had broken an NCAA rule. The reason I say this is because Devon actually enrolled in regular classes under the business department of the University. His teammates were enrolled in what is known as the Special Electives program that consist mostly of "paper classes". These classes are worth 3 full credits and are made especially for student-athletes. There is no work due during the semester except for one paper at the end on a subject of the students choosing.


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... choose to take advantage of it. That, in and of itself, has inherent compensation/value, both current and future. One of the largest challenges facing both the NCAA and the student athlete is the behavior of the professional agents. Because athletes cannot sign with an agent and retain eligibility, or receive compensation in the way of meals, clothing, transportation, gifts, or the benefit of ... gifts of travel or other forms of compensation to relatives, athletes are left to feel economically oppressed. Further, the consequences to the agents who attempt to circumvent the rules are in...

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2. Collegiate Athletes: Not to Be Paid

... is the line drawn for athletes in terms of the benefits, compensation, and system an athlete is to receive. These so called benefits are however given to majority of athletes, especially at a high level. Thousands of dollars are invested towards athletic programs each year, to help and provide for student athletes nationwide. There is still an ongoing argument within NCAA rules and regulations that ... players are not getting compensated enough for all ... in more revenue for their educational setting, the NCAA must also continue in ensuring the definition of a student-athlete is not t...

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3. Should NCAA Athletes be Paid?

... the years in order to protect these student-athletes from exploitation and define how much of the compensation would be given to the student-athletes. Later the NCAA divided into three separate divisions: Division I Division II, and Division III. This changed the rules for who could receive athletic scholarships leaving out the athletes playing under Division III schools. Today, ... scholarships are highly regulated and are only awarded to the athletes that best fit as skillful enough to receive compensation for their education ... (History of Sports Scholarships). For many ... ...

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6. Paying College Athletes

... "full-ride" scholarship to higher learning institutions that college athletes receive should be sufficient compensation. College athletes have traditionally been prohibited from taking outside employment, and also accepting any kind of compensation for their athletic abilities because it disqualifies them from competing at the collegiate level. The NCAA has established rules and regulations for universities, and paying student athletes would result in the corruption of college sports. Though ... college sports is a multi-million dollar business, student athletes should not get paid beca...

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