College Athletes Vs College Sports
What is going to happen to college sports? The sports them self’s are becoming bigger than the school instead of being a school activity, college sports are also becoming a separate entity through the help of the NCAA. In the book Game Over author Dave Zirin sheds light on how college players are exploited for profits for the faculty of the NCAA including the university’s coaches, some making over six figure salaries while the schools that endorse sports teams are making cuts to teaching and maintenance budgets causing the schools to crumble to the ground. Colleges who have hugely influenced by sports are not known for their academic specialties yet they are known for their athleticism. This causes the players of university teams to struggle
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Look at the statistics put right on the NCAA’s web page for football, The NCAA’s chart shows that there are 1,093,234 high school football players, out of those players only 6.5 percent go on to play in college level sports in all three divisions. Out of that 6.5 percent only 1.6 percent will be drafted by the NFL. The NCAA lists all the major sports and there statistics and the results are equally grim. So even if you are the lucky few that get into college sports under a scholarship you had better concentrate and study to make something out of your degree. On that same NCAA page they state, “Education is a vital part of the college athletics experience, and student-athletes treat it that way. Overall, student-athletes graduate at higher rates than their peers in the student body, and those rates rise each year.” Even the NCAA admits that there is no probability of an average college athlete going pro to pay back the years of student debt accumulated from just playing sports and making the NCAA employees and partners rick from endorsements and …show more content…
Many athletes who went to college years ago explain how sports were not as extreme as they are today. “Former Syracuse all-American linebacker Dave Meggyesy said, “These are more that full time-jobs. When I played at Syracuse in the early sixties, it wasn’t like that. We had a regular season and twenty days of spring practice. Now it’s year round. It’s more cynical system now than when I played, starting with those one-year renewables. That’s a heavy hammer. You get hurt, tough shit, you’re out. And there’s no worker’s comp for injuries.” Zirin 110.” If you get hurt you are out and you lose your scholarship and now you are broke and can’t work to support your schooling, and also if you don’t perform well you lose your scholarship. I’m not saying that student athletes should be paid a wage or salary like professional athletes, because student athletes do get their school paid for. I do however feel that if the students’ needs are compensated for that they will be able to perform better on the field and also in the class room. Students would also be more at ease if there was an insurance policy that would include compensating for medical costs and also continuation of their scholarship if they were ever to become injured and unable to continue athletically due to an injury caused by the
Look at the statistics put right on the NCAA’s web page for football, The NCAA’s chart shows that there are 1,093,234 high school football players, out of those players only 6.5 percent go on to play in college level sports in all three divisions. Out of that 6.5 percent only 1.6 percent will be drafted by the NFL. The NCAA lists all the major sports and there statistics and the results are equally grim. So even if you are the lucky few that get into college sports under a scholarship you had better concentrate and study to make something out of your degree. On that same NCAA page they state, “Education is a vital part of the college athletics experience, and student-athletes treat it that way. Overall, student-athletes graduate at higher rates than their peers in the student body, and those rates rise each year.” Even the NCAA admits that there is no probability of an average college athlete going pro to pay back the years of student debt accumulated from just playing sports and making the NCAA employees and partners rick from endorsements and …show more content…
Many athletes who went to college years ago explain how sports were not as extreme as they are today. “Former Syracuse all-American linebacker Dave Meggyesy said, “These are more that full time-jobs. When I played at Syracuse in the early sixties, it wasn’t like that. We had a regular season and twenty days of spring practice. Now it’s year round. It’s more cynical system now than when I played, starting with those one-year renewables. That’s a heavy hammer. You get hurt, tough shit, you’re out. And there’s no worker’s comp for injuries.” Zirin 110.” If you get hurt you are out and you lose your scholarship and now you are broke and can’t work to support your schooling, and also if you don’t perform well you lose your scholarship. I’m not saying that student athletes should be paid a wage or salary like professional athletes, because student athletes do get their school paid for. I do however feel that if the students’ needs are compensated for that they will be able to perform better on the field and also in the class room. Students would also be more at ease if there was an insurance policy that would include compensating for medical costs and also continuation of their scholarship if they were ever to become injured and unable to continue athletically due to an injury caused by the