Colonial Athletic Association

RBAA Sketch 1 First off, I’m excited to write this research paper. I’m thrilled to do research on a topic I’m fairly interested in. Today in this sketch I will be talking about my focused research topic, which is agreeing the issue if college athletes should or shouldn’t get paid. I will be talking about how College Athletes Should get paid for everything they do for their school. I’m really interested in this topic because I have had love for college sports since I was a little kid and I always…

Teacher Candidate Jessica Grooms Date and Time of Lesson 7:50-9:07 a.m. School Westview Middle School Subject/Grade Level English Language Arts 7th Grade Description of Lesson: After Students read Mueller’s article of “Two Sides to Every Coin: Are Professional Athletes Overpaid?”, students will create a concept map to begin an argumentative essay. Students will learn to use phrases to connect ideas in different areas of the map and create a better understanding of the topic by connecting…

In any business someone is getting the short end of the stick. Whether that be an employee, manager, or even costumer; there seems to always be a winner and loser. But there is one business that is unmatched in its disparity between winners and loser, and that is the business of college football. The last time this country saw such a wide gap between people benefiting from a business while others suffered was back in the 1920s when we did not have labor laws and employers could pay workers next…

Starting analysis for this claim is that the Texas Longhorns had $165,691,486 in total revenue and $146,807,585 in total expenses in 2012 for their athletic program. Business Insider broke down the total revenue isolating just the football revenue which was roughly $104.5 million dollars and calculated the Fair Market Value . According to Cork Gaines, each Texas Longhorn football player is worth $578…

My plan to compensate college athletes comes from the idea of stipends. I have two potential plans to pay players through stipends. As we have discovered, athletes are already shorted by their university $2000- $3000 a year because of attending university costs. But not even this projected amount covers other expenses like travel expenses, food expenses, and clothing expenses. Athletes, like other students, require the ability to travel to class or home, but because athletes are representing the…

College athletes should be paid because of the large amounts of revenue that they produce for their school (Futterman; Sack; Thomson; Coterell). The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is one of the most anticipated and viewed events of the year. Recently, the NCAA extended its media rights deal with CBS and Turner Sports through 2024 for a record $10.6 billion (Futterman 1). That’s an average of $720 million a year (Futterman 1). Despite being the primary reason for this television deal and…

A Quarter Back for the Quarterback College athletics have gained a large amount of popularity over the course of the last twenty years, stirring up the question of paying collegiate athletes. Intercollegiate athletics generate an excess amount of annual revenue to their universities, up to $124 million at the University of Alabama. Student-athletes are rewarded with a free college education in exchange because they are viewed as amateurs. Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, stated “They…

young students will dedicate their time on their studies and student athletes who cannot met certain academic requirements, they get special treatment by, school officials aid them throughout college. However, athletic students should be held the same educational standards as non-athletic because it serves integrity to the school and the student body. Athletes have such a high commitment to sports and trying to find time to study and attend class. Knowing that they have trouble balancing sports…

(Peebles). Advocates for paying athletes, and sports writers like Jay Bilas, believe that paying college athletes could potentially get many athletes to stay in school and earn a degree. This would be a great back up plan for many athletes if their athletic career ended up not working…

children want to be a college athlete and later become a professional athlete. Because of Title IX, young women have the opportunity to compete at a college level. It is important to push colleges to treat their athletes equally because we want female athletic participation to keep increasing. There is absolutely no reason that women should not have the same opportunities as men to play college sports. Female athletes are humans, we have ten fingers, ten toes, and red blood. Colleges should not…