Should college basketball players get paid
By Jared Walch, The Daily Utah Chronicle , Blake Marshall, The Daily Utah Chronicle Auburn cornerback Chris Davis 11 returns a field goal attempt yards to score the winning touchdown over Alabama during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Auburn, Ala. Recently, the hot topic swirling around college sports has been the issue of unionizing and payment. College athletes from several schools threatened to unionize and demanded they be paid royalties when video games were released containing their names and likenesses.
The topic has even roped in famous non-athletes such as Jay Bilas of ESPN.
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Though it originally started as a question about video game royalties, it has blossomed into an argument about payment in general. The proponents of this argument like to claim that athletes should be paid because they are performing.
The first problem with this argument is that, while the athletes are putting their bodies on the line, they are doing so voluntarily.
No one is forcing them to participate. Though every athlete performs, not every athlete gets injured. Sports are different and the chance of injury in different sports varies. Second, only a few sports tend to bring in money.
Often, it is the big programs — football and basketball —that bring in the most revenue. It is the big programs that pay for all the smaller programs. The money these programs bring in goes to pay for the facilities, the training, the programs and all kinds of other expenses of the university. Most people tend to overlook the fact that so many athletes are already paid monetarily in the form of scholarships. But looking past that, they are also paid in experience.
It is the education they get that matters. Athletes often have their pick of the litter when it comes where they want to go and play. The logistics of this idea are just too unrealistic. First, who pays the athletes? The school, the conference, or the NCAA itself? Each individual athlete, or just the ones who bring in the dough? Should they be subsidized or not? If an athlete can go to a big name school and be paid, why would they ever consider going to a smaller school where they can get a better education?
Would the U be able to keep up with the demands of student athletes? Beyond that, it would ruin the integrity of college sports.
How many of us hate watching professional sports because we view the athletes as overpaid, under-worked crybabies who behave like a bunch of spoiled first graders? Do we really want to turn college athletes into the same thing?
I love watching college athletics because you can tell how much passion they have for the game. They live for their sport and do so because it is their passion, not because they make money from it. I understand that it can look bad at the outset, but you have to ignore a lot of things to make the argument for payment. You have to overlook the fact that these athletes get the best training, best facilities, oftentimes the best nutrition and the best coaching in the world.
Maybe I am a college sports purist, but I think bringing money into the equation will only be a bad thing for college athletics. College athletics is big business. Money is flooding into these athletic departments and the athletes benefit in many ways, but do athletes deserve to be paid for what they do? This is an argument that has been perpetuated for decades. Athletes work more than most students. The NCAA has a regulation that is intended to limit training for players to 20 hours per week.
Would you be surprised to learn that very few athletes reported only practicing 20 hours per week? According to an NCAA survey conducted in , Division I football players averaged 43 hours a week.
Baseball came in second with These are in-season numbers. This means that on top of class work and homework, athletes are working a full-time job. Could I live off that? Even as a full-time employee with access to the employee cafeteria? The university makes money because of the athletes.
According to NCAA bylaw I guess as long as their image is making the right people money, bylaws are not in effect. College basketball allows players to declare themselves eligible for the NBA draft after their freshman season, if they so choose. In football you can declare for the NFL three years after graduating from high school, so essentially after your junior season of college.
Many players cite financial hardship as the reason that they declare early for the draft, and who can blame them? For most athletes coming from low-income situations, college is just a time that they are a horse on a cart, all the while the carrot of a professional contract is being dangled in front of their face. The reality is athletes are working full-time jobs for an average wage. While the institutions they are attending are getting rich, they are missing out on their pay day.
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