Imagine working a full time job with your family to take care of but you spend more time at work than you do at home. But, your full time job does not pay you any money. That’s what playing sports in the NCAA is like except their “families” are their degrees and themselves.
NCAA athletes don’t get what they deserve out of the work they put into bringing attention to collegiate athletics. NCAA athletes are professional athletes except for the fact that they don’t receive any financial benefits for the things they do for the schools. Therefore, solutions need to be found to make sure that collegiate athletes can support themselves and get what they deserve from the schools.
Ever since collegiate athletics have began people have enjoyed watching…show more content… “NCAA Schools Can Absolutely Afford To Pay College Athletes, Economists
Say” from the Huffington post says “The NCAA alone brought in nearly a billion dollars in revenue in its most recent financial year” (Huffington Post 8). This shows that the NCAA athletic programs make more than enough money than needed to pay the athletes the amount of money they deserve. David Berri, a professor of economics at Southern Utah University says that the sports are non profit and their incentive is to spend every penny of the money they make.
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“That doesn’t mean they aren’t making money, that just means that they spent all of it”
(Huffington post 11). This shows that the schools are perfectly able to pay the athletes but they don’t distribute their money properly enough to be able to. “To pay the players would simply require a reallocation of resources, the economists said. Assuming the university declined to increase the football or basketball team’s funding, that program would just have to move the money from some other part of its budget” (Huffington post 18). Things would have to change financially throughout the school for the players participating in the athletic activity to get…show more content… For big name basketball schools such as The University Of Kentucky and Duke, the average pay for the coaches is around 6 million dollars a year. Most argue that the athletes are paid enough when it comes to their full time education that they don’t have to pay for. In “College athletes are about to get paid, and the NCAA is fighting it” by Kevin Trahan, the author states that players being paid is coming up soon when he says “If the O’Bannon verdict stands, schools can start offering 2016 recruits up to $5,000 per year in deferred compensation.”. (Trahan 1). Coaches are upset about this because the fact of athletes being paid results in major pay cuts for them.
Experts also believe that a way of compensation for the athletes are the facilities that they are provided to play in and the luxuries they receive in those facilities. In “College Athletes Need
Pay, Not Perks’ by Stephen L. Carter, Carter believes that the reason the facilities in the NCAA
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