Paying Division One Athletes

ENG 100P April 12, 2013 Pay to Play Should Division One College Athletes be gainful? E very year division champion college athletes put every(prenominal)thing they rich person on the line during usage fooling and beat hundreds of millions of dollars for their schools and the NCAA every year. These athletes arent just defending for the love of the game anymore once they defecate the division one level, it turns into more of a job than an activity. The players spend hours every single day dedicating some each of their cartridge clip to the sport they play.These athletes wee just as farsighted and much harder than your average someone working a nine to five job, so why breakt the athletes get give for their payloads to their team ups? Last year the NCAA made 871. 6 million dollars from division one sports. The average division one mens football game team brings in 15. 8 million dollars to their school each year. The marrow of gold that these sports make for their s chool is so high the players should get some kind of reward for all they do for their schools.The old rules that say college athletes cant be paid in any way necessarily to change, division one college athletes deserve to be paid for all they do for the NCAA and their schools. Growing up every athletes dreams of playing in that national championship game for their dream school and gain ground the winning touchdown or overtime goal. As a child you dont realize that perpetration it takes to be part of a division one athletic team. Coming from a big lacrosse and football town, my friends and I have gone by the division one recruiting process and subsist how hard it is to play a division one sport.Many of my former teammates play division one lacrosse and after talking to them I realized really how tough it is to play a division one sport. When asked virtually how lacrosse at unnameable Heart University was going, Freshman Spencer Hackett said Ive grown up with lacrosse and I lo ve the sport very much, but division one is so much more then I thought it would be. usual I have two practices that last at least two hour, then after that I have mandatory lift and film sessions. Spencer dedicates at least six hours every day for his team, and theyre one of the lowest ranked teams in division one, I can only imagine the commitment it takes to play on a high ranked team. In my personal experience of going through the division one recruiting process, I saw how much blood sweat and tears go into macrocosm a division one athlete. On my overnight visit at University of Massachusetts, which is a top 20 team, most of my day was watching the team practice, or lift, or watch film.It seemed like everything they did was revolved approximately lacrosse and to me thats not what college is about. These division one athletes have such little time to socialize and make friends outside of their sports everything they do is revolved around their sports. The fact that athletes wi llingly dedicate so much time to their sports is a huge reason why they should be paid. Division one athletics, especially sports such as football and basketball, are passing profitable for the NCAA and for their schools. According to NCAA. org, the NCAAs r sluiceue for the 2011-2012 athletic seasons was 871. million dollars. The NCAA makes an extremely large amount of money from division athletics, with most of the money coming from television contracts and championships such as March Madness. Schools such as Texas make hundreds of millions of dollars because of their excellence in many sports, last year their football team profited $68,830,484. A lot of the money schools make, such as Texas, is from deceiveing merchandise. Big name schools sell tons of merchandise to the public selling products such as jerseys should be illegal if they players dont get paid.Why could they sell jerseys with players number on them but that player doesnt get compensated for utilize their number on the jersey? Robert and Amy McCormick of Michigan State University have added a new dimension to the long debate over paying athletes by arguing they are employees under federal labor laws and authorise to form unions and negotiate wages, hours and working conditions. Robert McCormick was the former attorney for the Nation Labor Relations Board and if he is saying that these players are employees, its about time that the NCAA recognizes them as employees also.A common argument against paying college athletes is that they wont compete as hard because it wont be the same as when they werent getting paid, but that argument has absolutely nothing to do with paying players. If anything, paying the players would make them work harder so that they could make more money I believe that the best way to go about paying these players would be contracts, just like the professional athletes and like any other employee in the joined States.These contracts would go on to say that the players woul d be paid an amount depending on their contribution to the team and that learners would admit to finish their schooling so that they have a backup jut. That is why youre supposed to go to college in the first place, isnt it? So that you can get a good education To do this the NCAA would need the support from the professional sport teams and not draft players who havent graduated college yet. another(prenominal) argument why players shouldnt be paid to play is because they students-athletes and that there is a reason student becomes before athletes.Realistically, these young men and women arent student-athletes at all. Many of the players on division one team would never have gotten into college if it werent for sports. Also, if they are student-athletes then where do they find the time to do their schoolwork when they have practice, film, lifting, running etc. all day? The only reason many athletes go to college is so that they can get looks from the pros. If they are student-at hletes then why do many of them leave college after a year or two to play professional sport?Its because college is just a stepping-stone to them, they dont care about the school aspect. When it comes to division one athletes, they are athletes first and students second. The players know it, the coaches know it, the fans know it, the only people who dont know it are the people who make up the NCAA. In conclusion, times have changed and its time to pay division one athletes for their commitment and for the money they bring in for the schools and the NCAA. With college athletics competition being so tough now and so competitive, players have to dedicate so much more time to their sports then in the past.College athletics are not longer a sport that players do for fun, college athletics are now a job for the players that consists of hours of practice everyday and throwing your social life out for your sports college athletics make hundreds of millions of dollars for the NCAA and tens o f millions of dollars for the schools, so why is it that these players dont get compensated for their commitment and contribution to the schools and the NCAA? I personally believe that it is ridiculous that players dont get paid anymore.One of my best friends Dylan Baumgardner, a lacrosse player at Quinnipiac University said it perfectly when asked if he pipe down loved playing lacrosse, I dont play lacrosse anymore, I go to class, then I go to work all day, then I go to sleep. Joe Nocera of the New York Times, came up with a plan for college athletics that would make college athletics work like professional sports with signing bonuses, salary caps, insurance, player unions and it would even offer additional scholarships to players who want to further their education. This plan will go into consideration in 2014.