Thad Williamson wrote the article, "Bad As They Wanna Be," about the ever increasing greed of college basketball and football teams and programs. ... He talks of manual score boards and athletes who played sports, in a true amateur era, for the love of the game. ... The reader is drawn to a different time and is given a vivid image of a late fifties game of basketball, a far cry from any modern day college ball game. ... He has some incredible and mind-blowing large numbers with regards to the sums of money that is generated by the major college sports, Williamson says, "the NCAA's lucr...

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On the other hand these players coaches are making millions, such as John Calipari Head Coach of the Kentucky Wildcats Men's basketball team who made 5.5 million dollars last season. ... Through the years college sports have been about the love of the game, fueled with adrenaline filled moments. ... My point is game changing players such as Cam Newton draw in a lot of attention and boost the overall profit of schools. ...

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Students should be paid to play the sports they were recruited for with restrictions that make the game fair for players and organizations alike. ... Shortly after, other college sports emerged such as football and basketball. ... This event created more committees in the NCAA and more sports began holding national championships such as the first basketball national championship in 1939. ... Times have changed however, and in the last 30 years college football coaches' salaries have risen 500% and basketball coaches' salaries have risen 400%. ... However, to have college athletes...

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Title IX and Its Effect on Men's College Swimming College sports are very important to not only the athletes who participate in the sports but also to the schools themselves. The student athletes bring money and attention to the school that otherwise would not have been attainable. College sport...

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