The average salary for a division I football, basketball, or baseball head coach is $2-3.5 million (Brian). ... In the last few years 13 football players in the Midwest alone were diagnosed with Rhadomlysis (Starner). ... The University of Alabama's football program has won three of the last four last national championships. ... A big example in the media was with the Ohio State football program. ... Sadly, the OSU football players are far from being the only that do it. ...

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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. ... Overall, there are 127 D1 football programs, over 160 D2 programs, and almost 200 D3 programs in the United States. Outside of the top 25 D1 football programs, few schools would be able to pay so many student athletes the money that division 1 schools can offer. ...

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For example, the University of Alabama football team has the highest stipend in the nation at around $5,000. The yearly salary of the Alabama's head football coach, Nick Saban, could pay for 1,380 stipends! ... 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. ... At the time, Bush didn't come from much wealth and even with a "full-ride" football scholarship, he could not cover all of his expenses. ... Would the football team make more money than ...

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"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. ... 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 comprehended what the statement meant I came to the opinion that big time colleges, where football is the main sport, is where the athletes should be paid. But that's when I am hit with the question," isn'...

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Creatine is considered to be one of the most popular supplements for exercise enthusiasts, especially among football players. ... When using creatine it helps make more energy available to your body during extreme short-term workouts, or intense exercises, such as weight training and plyometrics done by most football players. ... With proven improvement studies done in both areas, one can see why creatine supplementing catches the eyes of a wide range of football players from high school all the way to the pro level. ...

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Buckle up. I'm about to propose something so earth shattering, you may just drop, throw, or break whatever medium on which you're reading this. College athletes deserve to get paid. Wait? What? Yea, that's right - young adults who are enrolled in a university, while playing a sport for said universi...

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Football players will be paid the most because of popularity. ... Ohio State University's football net profit and alumni donations added up to "approximately forty million dollars" (Dosh). ... If the football team gets paid, why not the tennis team or the volleyball team? ... Kids in America will grow up wanting to join the football team regardless of talent, because they know they can get some type of money out of it. ...

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College sports like football and basketball hold a huge segment of the entertainment industry making those two particular sport seasons year round. ... 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 price for advertising on television during the championship bowl game for college football is second only to the mother of all advertising platforms, the Super Bowl. ...

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The dreams of a successful football season were dashed for Georgia fans when star wide receiver AJ Green was suspended four games by the NCAA for selling one of his game-worn jerseys for $1,000. ... Essentially, college football represents unpaid labor in that the talents of the athletes are used to generate revenue for the NCAA and universities. ... Most college football players do not even reach the NFL, and their obscurity makes it much more difficult for them to pursue legal action for compensation. ... Luchs's first encounter with a star college football player was with former Colo...

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Steroid maker and former body builder David Jacobs directed football players to use HGH during the season and to use steroids during the offseason. ... 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. ... However, because of their ineffective testing NCAA football unlike most sports, has not yet discovered the full extent of their steroid problem. ... With inconsistent punishments for steroids in NCAA football, I don't know what I should feel...

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Many coaches earn at least $1 million per year to coach one of the major sports like baseball, basketball, or football at a school. ... "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). ... Seventeen college football coaches and seven college basketball coaches make more than $3 million a year. ... The first was the year that Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie won the Heisman Trophy a...

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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 know people just figure that most football players want to coach, but everything that I know the most of deals with sports. ...

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The most profitable sports in the NCAA are College football bowl series (FBS) and Division I college basketball. ... The typical NCAA division I football player spends 43.3 in season hours at practice, games, treating injuries and attending required team meetings. ... The previous time spent by college football players, mentioned earlier doesn't even include time spent in class or doing classwork. ... The 'primetime' college football games are played on Thursday nights because they are able to be national televised and bring in a lot of revenue for the NCAA and the schools inv...

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Big time football usually carries the most in a schools athletic program, the most expenses, the most players, but also the most revenue. Often times the football program is force to carry many of the woman's programs because they fail to bring in enough money to support themselves. ...

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One example was of a football player named Devon Ramsey. ... 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. ...

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.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 0.5% received money from a gambler for not playing well in a 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). ... "More than 700 gambling sites, offering everyt...

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Author 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, because the majority of us are not going on to play at the professional level " (Sack). ... " She calculated the bill for a Division I football team traveling from the east coast to Los Angeles. ... In the 2007 football season a total for all of the NCAA team...

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Some sports like Football and Basketball some athletes are paid for. "First, only football and men's basketball are money-making college sports" (Should) With this statement out why aren't other sports getting money for their sport that they are in? ... "Still, it's not surprising that the football and basketball players may want to be paid. ...

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Currently 17% of high-school athletes, 30% high-school football players, 28-41% NCAA athletes, 29-57% military and civilian health club members, and 45-74% if athletes in power sports using creatine supplements (Rawson). ... NCAA football players usually take creatine for3 months during their off-season, NCAA baseball players take creatine for 5 months, and health club members usually take it for about 40 weeks (Rawson). ...

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Clean Up or Pay Up Clean Up or Pay Up is a great story for college administrators, staff members and students to read. 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 ha...

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They have discussed just paying athletes who play the four major sports (basketball, baseball, football, and hockey). ... College basketball and football are still some of the highest rated TV in America and it doesn't look to have any downward spirals ahead. ...

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I think that in general Title IX has had a positive impact on sport. I believe that people are looking for the wrong answers to come from that legislation. Title IX can not provide money-making athletic programs to support the legislation and it can not force the people in charge of ensuring that ...

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On the popular show MADE that is on MTV, there was a particular episode where a high school girl wanted to participate on the men's football team. ... I think sometimes that the only coverage that women get sometimes is on Monday Night Football when they are sport's analysts, and I think they do that just because they will have a part in the production....

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In a big name sport that draws the majority of the attention such as football, the schools are making money of the athletes in ways such as ticket sales to fan gear but the players are not the ones who get to see any of the money. ...

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What separates college and professional athletes? The obvious answer is that professional athletes get paid for the sport they play but college students do not. In my eyes, this is strange; both groups are doing the exact same thing but college students are getting a degree while playing a sport. Co...

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