NCAA student-athletes should be paid for three main reasons: for the amount of time put into sports, the improper use and distribution of money, and the motivation to finish college. ... As an NCAA athlete myself, I am an example of this. ... If NCAA student athletes were paid for play, a sports student could take fewer per semester because they would have the money to stay in college longer and pay for more classes later on in the future. ... At Lindenwood we have over twenty different NCAA sports; imagine the profit our school makes just from these different sports. ... All in all, NCAA ...

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A huge issue in the world of sports is the debate of whether or not NCAA College athletes should be paid. ... There are more than 450,000 college student-athletes who compete annually in college sports through the NCAA. ... The most profitable sports in the NCAA are College football bowl series (FBS) and Division I college basketball. ... College sports and the athletes who participate in them should not be centered on money. ... Thus, many lawsuits are being filed against the NCAA. ...

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The history of college sports has seemed to have created a booming industry of profit and franchises. ... The NCAA has created rules and regulations to stricken the athletes from certain behaviors and necessities of life, like money. ... Although the NCAA hosts these certain seminars for the athletes, some athletes choose not to go. ... But they are also struggling at some aspects, because the NCAA is setting it up for them to break the rules. ... The NCAA should recognize these situations and allow athletes to be paid. ...

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What does sports have to offer colleges that offsets this tradeoff? ... A college that has a good sports program is more likely to have positive enrollment. Sports are like additional advertising for the college. ... What would be lost by unlinking big time sports with Colleges? ... If a team were to do well, for example make the final four in hockey, the NCAA gives the program bonus funds that would help support the team next year. ...

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The NCAA is composed of over 1,000 sport playing schools (Nebraska, 2003, p.1). Colleges provide over 360,000 student-athletes in the NCAA (Bianchi, 2001, p.1). ... CBS spent over $6 billion dollars to secure the NCAA men's college basketball tournament (Bagnato, 2001, p.1). ... This would make those four sports superior to all other sports. ... College sports have survived over 100 years by losing young stars early to professional sports. ...

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Many colleges are lowering their academic standards in order to recruit new athletes and to maintain their previous athletes eligible to play for the various sports that their schools offer. ... An internal committee has found at least 12 violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; who's trustees were publicly rebuked for their sports policies on last month by the state's governor (Lederman 412). There were 12 NCAA violations found in these two colleges alone, and these are not the only colleges that are not p...

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In the world of college sports is where a lot of the money revenue that the universities get come from. Majority of the money is going in to the schools, while the rest is going towards both the coaching staff and the sports program but not the players who bring the money in. ... The athletes have very little time throughout the school year to find jobs with some sports requiring year round mandatory training and with trying to keep up with school. ... In the article, The Day - NCAA: It's time to start paying your athletes it states, "Napier and his fellow athletes can't even e...

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At first I did not know who the professor of the class was supposed to be, but when I saw Kevin Fite was teaching it, I knew I would learn a lot because of his experience as a successful administrator with the NCAA and the University of Houston. ... I would like to learn some more fundamental knowledge of administrative practices of sports at the high school, collegiate and professional sport levels. I want to be able to identify and implement managerial strategies utilized with sports programs, analyze and discuss philosophies and issues involved in the management of sports programs, acquai...

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NCAA sports are starting to become a professional business. ... The public looks at college athletes and says that they"ll end up leaving college for professional sports anyway. ... NCAA allows 86 players to be on scholarship on a football team. ... College sports are corrupt, and are not challenging their athletes starting with high school. ... If someone is going to fault an athlete for their poor academic achievements I don't think there is anyone to blame except for the classroom and the corrupt system of NCAA sports. ...

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NCAA sports are starting to become a professional business. ... The public looks at college athletes and says that they"ll end up leaving college for professional sports anyway. ... NCAA allows 86 players to be on scholarship on a football team. ... It's exposing prestigious schools for not challenging their students, and rewarding them with free schooling for only concentrating on sports and not their academics. ... College sports are corrupt, and are not challenging their athletes starting with high school. ...

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He goes on to talk about how he witnessed and endured some of the struggles in dealing with the severe rules of the NCAA. ... For example, in 2010, "Duke basketball players were valued at nearly a million dollars while the players were living just $732 above the poverty line and a scholarship shortfall of $1,995" ("The Price of Poverty in Big Time College Sports"). ... NCAA prides itself on all student-athletes are students first and athletes second, however, it seems that more popular athletes leave early for the pros. ... The truth is that many college athletes are alre...

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Since the beginning of college sports, athletes have not been financially rewarded for their efforts. ... The money that colleges and universities acquire from ticket sales alone, exceed that of many professional sports leagues in the United States. ... Although bribes, cash and gift of this sort are prohibited, by NCAA rules colleges sometimes resort to these measures to persuade top performing athletes to stay. ... Even though some say that the scholarships are enough, paying players would cut out the illegal contact between recruiters, agents, boosters, and players, and eliminate an already...

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In the world of sports, in this case college sports, the primary motive for athletes to play a sport is for money rather than for the love of the game. This incentive started with the professional sports and began to corrupt the college level. ... The NCAA establishes rules and regulations for universities and students to follow, and one of the most important rules is that student athletes should not receive any money to play sports. ... Sports have always been seen as a recreational activity, not as a professional one. ... College sports are talked about far beyond professional sports bec...

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