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...
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. ...
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...
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. ...
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). ...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
We see college sporting events on television and hear about college games on the radio; we even read about them in the newspaper. Whether it's a scrimmage or the last game in the Final Four college basketball series, you should be aware that those athletes aren't receiving a single dime from the col...
This solution is being brought up in Nebraska, because the governor is suggesting a bill that, "calls for all football players -- the 85 on scholarship, as well as the 100 or so walk-ons -- to be paid the federal minimum wage ($5.15 an hour) for approximately 728 hours per year, which works out to an average of 14 hours per player. ...
