The National Collegiate Athletic Association

If you have ever wondered why college athletes are not paid, you are not alone. If you are a sports nut, then you may have even gotten into arguments over the topic. Economic experts do not seem to agree either. If you listen to each side of the argument the answer seems gray, but if you look at the evidence the answer may become clearer. The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) should pay Division I student-athletes who participate in men’s basketball and football, because of the amount of money they accumulate for the school and NCAA, because the sport they are a part of is a full time job, and also because many student-athletes struggle financially.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit institution that governs athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, and individuals. It organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and assists more than 450,000 collegiate student-athletes who compete annually in college sports. Sports sanctioned by the NCAA include the following: basketball, baseball (men), beach volleyball (women), softball (women), football (men), cross country, field hockey (women), bowling (women), golf, fencing (coeducational), lacrosse, soccer, gymnastics, rowing (women only), volleyball, ice hockey, water polo, rifle (coeducational), tennis, skiing (coeducational), track and field, swimming and

College athletics is a billion dollar industry and has been for a long time. Due to the increasing ratings of college athletics, this figure will continue to rise. It’s simple: bigger, faster, stronger athletes will generate more money. College Universities generate so much revenue during the year that it is only fair to the players that they get a cut. College athletes should get paid based on the university’s revenue, apparel sales, and lack of spending money.

Universities and the NCAA make a lot of money off the likeness of college athletes, however these athletes get no form of physical compensation. The NCAA claims to be a nonprofit company, but in a reality they’re a multi-billion dollar industry that is comparable to professional leagues such as the NBA and NHL, due to their players’ ability to entertain and perform to their fullest extent at all times. Over the 9-month 2013-2014 NBA season, the league grossed $4.7 billion, with athletes averaging $5 million salaries. In contrast NCAA Basketball grossed $2 billion over a month long tournament. Despite this staggering figure, the athletes received no compensation. In 2011 the NCAA signed a historic television deal with CBS and Turner Broadcasting,

As writer Jon Saraceno would say, “The NCAA [National Collegiate Athletic Association] is a tax-exempt organization that operates as a monopoly, its rulebook denser than the New Testament” (Saraceno 38). He explains that the NCAA has various rules, and coaches and players do not know what is right or wrong. Others view that athletes are already receiving pay with scholarships. Athletes in higher revenue generating sports, comparable to basketball and football, are usually more likely to earn a full-ride scholarship. Full-ride scholarships allow an athlete to attend institutions at little to no cost. Without full-ride or partial scholarships, certain players could not afford to attend school. This is due to the poverty in areas where

The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) motion to dismiss at the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania involves Plaintiff Matthew Onyshko’s (Plaintiff) claim that his health issues resulted from the NCAA’s negligence to inform, protect, and mediate student-athletes that are exposed to head related injuries. This memorandum will establish the relationship that the two parties share and the extent that the duty of care applies to this relationship. By analyzing NCAA’s duties, if any, to the Plaintiff —including the duty to protect, duty to warn, and how risks not contemplated by the Plaintiff apply to the case— we find the NCAA, while having a strong case, does not have grounds for dismissal. Finally, we will assess the NCAA’s limited liability due to their defenses including assumption of risk.

The NCAA, also known as the National Collegiate Athletic Association, is a corporation where student athletes in all sports meet and compete against each other in a collegiate athletic manor. The organization ensures that each athletic division operates consistently within the basic purposes, fundamental policies and general principles of the NCAA. These rules set forth by the NCAA are to make sure that the athletes that compete within the NCAA corporation are protected from the media, drugs, and keep themselves humble and groomed as a young man or woman.

Dr. Mark A. Emmert, since October of 2010 you have been the president of a great organization by the name of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA for short. Prior to being the president for the NCAA, it is known that you have made a great impact on the success of various well known universities. While at the University of Washington, the university was second in standings among all public and private institutions in research funding with $1 billion in grants and contracts per year. With your experience in the financial field, you hold the potential to make the NCAA a better organization for its most important habitants, the players. I believe that you, Dr. Emmert, hold the key to better conditions for college athletes across the United States of America. (Jcoram) Others that should join the cause are university presidents, athletic departments, sport commissioners, and coaches as well.

Ever since its formation in 1910, the National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA, has provided student athletes the ability to attend colleges through scholarships while playing for their schools. However, the ideology of inter-collegiate athletics, amateurism, and sportsmanship masks the troubling problem for many of the players; the ban on paying student athletes. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a 6 billion dollar a year institution that is a so-called, “non-profit organization.” While they claim to provide athletes a gateway to a higher education, their inability to provide any compensation for their hard work and sacrifices make them incredibly exploitative. It is

As citizens of the United States of America we all have the freedom to be able to choose what we want to do with our lives. Everyone has the right to the pursuit of happiness. So why is the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) able to force high school basketball players to attend college for at least one year before they are able to enter the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft? If the athlete wants to enter the draft out of high school then should be able to do so. It is their life and they should be able to make choices based on what think is the best for themselves. There should not be a rule implementing that athletes must attend college. We would never allow this if a male or female did not want to go to college to

The National Collegiate Athletic Association also known as the NCAA is one of the most popular Athletic Associations in the entire nation that regulates over 1,281 universities, conferences, and organizations. Some of the top conferences in the NCAA are the SEC, ACC, PAC 12, and Big Ten (Tomlinson,2010.) The NCAA is a non-profit association that brings in over 871.6 million dollars in revenue a year. The NCAA also awards 89 national championships a year in football, basketball, softball, gymnastics, swim and dive, soccer, and tennis to name a few. The NCAA 's most dominant competitions are college basketball and college (American) football, and it was estimated in 2000 that 75 per cent of US colleges made profits from these sports,

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, which is better known as the the NCAA, is an organization that regulates intercollegiate athletics. The NCAA not only is the administrator for all intercollegiate athletics, but also “formulates and enforces the rules of play and the eligibility criteria for athletes.” Being a student-athlete, I know the responsibility that one has not only in the classroom but also on the athletic field. There is a big standing problem in front of the NCAA and is a serious issue and that is the paying of student-athletes. According to an article written the the U.S. News. “the college sports industry generates over $11 billion in annual revenues” (Edelman). The problem is that the student-athlete who goes to

“The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), formed in 1905, set laws requiring college student-athletes to be amateurs in order to be eligible for intercollegiate athletics competition. According to the NCAA, requiring college student-athletes to be amateurs protects them from being exploited by professional and commercial enterprises” (Schneider). College sports is a business, and a booming one at that. With ticket sales, merchandise, and booster funding, universities can bring in huge amounts of money from collegiate athletics. “During the 2013-2014 year alone, the NCAA’s gross revenue totaled 497,600,000, with a majority the revenue generated through various media rights payments” (Grimmett-Norris). In addition, since 1988, the NCAA has received over 150 million a year from CBS alone for the rights to broadcast the annual men’s March Madness basketball tournament, on top of millions being generated by students play, school sponsorships contracts can also generate universities tremendous amounts of revenue. For example, in 2014 Oregon signed a record-breaking contract with Under Armor valued at over 100 millions dollars. Meanwhile, a recent study found that a college football player at the University of Texas is worth, on average, $578,000,

The NCAA continues to prohibit payment to its student athletes, while its member universities continue to seek new ways to increase revenue from the athlete’s accomplishments. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the nonprofit governing body of college athletics. The primary task of the NCAA is to oversee the actions of all student athletes and universities to verify that both parties abide by the rules and regulations within the principles of amateurism, defined by the Association. However, the NCAA has been ruthlessly exploiting the athlete’s talents in the hopes of maximizing profits.

With the increasing popularity of college sports over the past couple of years, a very controversial topic has risen pertaining to whether college athletes should receive payment or not for playing. The main problem behind the topic of paying college athletes is that college sports rake in massive amounts of revenue for their respective schools, athletic staff, and the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletics Association) but the athletes which participate in these sports and create all the revenue reap none of the financial benefits. To create a better understanding of how profitable college sports are, I present the following quote from Tom Gerencer’s article, “How Much Money Does the NCAA Make?”, “The NCAA makes about $1 billion per year. College athletics as a whole pulls in about $12 billion annually.” (Gerencer 2016) After grasping how much the NCAA and schools profit from college sports, it is very easy to see why there is a problem and why so many people argue that college athletes should be paid for their play. Along with the many supporters of college athletes being paid, there are various people who believe they should not due to their beliefs of education being more important than anything else in college. Now, although college athletes not being paid is the main problem it is not the only problem; the NCAA, which is the organization which runs all college sports, are adamant about college sports being an amateur league and because of this they do not allow athletes