Outline for study on Payment of Collage Athletes
- Thesis:College athletes should not only be offered scholarships for their hard work and efforts but be given payments as well, which act as a motivation factor that acknowledges their efforts and talents.
- Counterargument 1:Commercializing college athletics will shift the student’s concentration from talent growth and academics into making money.
Response: Commercializing college athletics is vital in ensuring college athletes are appreciated for their efforts in maintaining both classwork and sports and should be perceived as a real job hence the need for compensation. Supervisors or personal instructors can also be put in place to manage the students both financially, sports-wise, and academically.
- Counterargument 2:Giving room for college students to actively seek hire agents and endorsements can make them vulnerable to exploitation.
Response: Legislators can be used to enforce proper laws that protect the students as they seek hire agents and endorsements to secure well-paying opportunities and get value for their worth (Blinder, 2019). Students are still exploited through the NCAA as the institution makes billions in return, but only appreciate the college athlete’s efforts through degrees.
- Counterargument 3:College athletics is concerned with talent discovery and growth in extracurricular activities, and therefore, does not need compensation.
Response: Considering the fact that college athletes put their physical and bodies on the line during extracurricular activities and some end up with serious injuries or even death while on the pitch, the students need to be compensated for such efforts.
- Support: College students put in a significant amount of sacrifice as they try to balance class-work and spare time for extracurricular activities like athletics, and they cannot only receive scholarships in return to make their sacrifices worthy.
- Support: The field of college athletics has a huge potential, and is described as a multi-billion-dollar field mainly through the use of the athletes by corporations in advertisements, all because of the efforts made by individual students (Martinez, 2017).
- Support: Most students do not end up becoming professional athletes after they are done with high school, and they do not enjoy the fruits of their talent, paying the students at the college level can be the only appreciation most of them would receive for their talents.
- Support (Strongest): A token of appreciation should be considered for college athlete students since as an addition to their scholarship since they sacrifice a lot for the success of their teams, and they get exploited in the process as the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) makes substantial incomes from college athletics.
Conclusion
The debate on college students being paid for their efforts has been controversial for a while now, and considerations need to be made to allow students receive appreciation for their hard work. As much as the NCAA emphasizes on the appreciation of college students with a degree for their efforts in athletics, this is not enough since the field of college athletics has a big potential worth billions. It is only fair for students to get a portion of the billions made through their efforts and talent, as it could motivate them and improve their lives as well (Patterson, 2019). The legal issues involved in the payment of college athletes should be addressed adequately through proper channels to avoid negative impacts that may result from the approach.
References
Blinder, A. (2019). N.C.A.A. Athletes Could Be Paid Under New California Law. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/sports/college-athletes-paid-california.amp.html
Martinez, M. (2017). Should College Student-Athletes be Paid? Both sides of the Debate. CollegeXpress. Retrieved from https://www.collegexpress.com/articles-and-advice/athletics/blog/should-college-student-athletes-be-paid-both-sides-debate/
Patterson, T. (2019). Should College Athletes Be Paid? Smart Asset. Retrieved from https://smartasset.com/retirement/should-student-athletes-be-paid