Want To Clean Up College Athletes Analysis
The article “Want to clean up college athletics? Pay the players.” the author, Ryan Swanson explains the unlikeness of paying college players, but explains the benefits of paying college students who are playing sports in college. Ryan explains that some coaches want to pay the players for more motivation and so they can keep themselves financially safe and to pay for tuition, an example would be in 1980 Southern Methodist University had illicitly paid their football players, another example would be the University of Kentucky which they had lured in Chris Mills by having 1,000 dollars of cash in transit. Which none of these events had led to a change in the NCAA model. Swanson believes that paid athletes who gain revenue require them to take money out of their own wallet, meaning the money they recieve will result in less money for the colleges and the idea of paying college athletes is actually really old. In 1905 Harper's magazine published an editorial called “Pay of College Athletes.” which was quoted “How to make athletes work for nothing” which helps Swanson's claim of no money=no motive. There is a workaround of course to
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Swanson uses several colleges and dates to support his message, “History tells us that we’ll continue to talk about this problem. We’ll debate about it. We’ll write about it. We’ll even argue about it. And then things will die down, and we’ll go back to the way it has always been,” some coaches have tried to pay students for more motivation, to lure in outstanding athletes, and even resulted in using sex and alcohol. An example would be in 2004, University Of Colorado had tried to lure in Athletes with sex and alcohol to encourage students to
Swanson uses several colleges and dates to support his message, “History tells us that we’ll continue to talk about this problem. We’ll debate about it. We’ll write about it. We’ll even argue about it. And then things will die down, and we’ll go back to the way it has always been,” some coaches have tried to pay students for more motivation, to lure in outstanding athletes, and even resulted in using sex and alcohol. An example would be in 2004, University Of Colorado had tried to lure in Athletes with sex and alcohol to encourage students to