PET 5175 – Philosophy and Ethics of Coaching – Should College athletes be Paid? (Complete essay)

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PET 5175 – Philosophy and Ethics of Coaching

Essay title – Should College Athletes be Paid?

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PET 5175 – Philosophy and Ethics of Coaching – Should College Athletes be Paid? (Complete essay).

Introduction

The compensation of college students has been an issue of concern in many research studies. Despite the common compensation through scholarships, college students have through the NCAA been forbidden from getting payments all in the name of the amateurship.  The compensation issues become of great interest against the backdrop of the massive amounts of revenue that learning institutions get through the commercialization of sports by the mainstream media. The highest competitive sport has been Division 1 of the NCAA. The paper shall look into whether college athletes should be paid and evaluate reasons why college athletes should not be paid.

NCAA and Amateurship

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the official governing body for college athletics.  The core duty of the organization is ensuring that all athletes abide by the rule of amateurship which lay in not getting payment beyond the scholarship and travel expenditure.  NCAA does exploit the college athletes by denying them the right to the payment through making payment to a level below which the free market can bear.   The college athletes will in no way financially benefit from their talent apart from the college education sponsorship that the scholarship offers.

Collegiate Sports emerged as college sports became lucrative as billions of dollars were generated in college sports.  The college athletes were offered the status of amateurship entailing that the student-athletes top priority remained on getting a quality education and that all the student-athletes are competing equitably(Kilburg, 2018 ).  The NCAA developed a list of items that would make a player lose their Amateurship status. To begin with, the athletes should not sign contracts with professional teams. Any contract signed should be after the completion of the college studies. Secondly, the athletes were barred from receiving any payment for participating in sports.  The amateurs were not entitled to receive any prize money beyond their expenses.  The NCAA forbids the Athletes from acting as agents or benefitting in any way from the sports agent ship.  According to Kilburg (2018), the rules on college athletes changed in 1935 where college athletes were allowed to have scholarships. Colleges were limited in the number of scholarships that could be offered. Additionally, the scholarships were limited to only a year with the potential of being renewed.

\Stocz et al (2018) posit that the NCAA definition of amateurship may be outdated due to the amount of revenue that college athletics brings to the union its members over $1 billion annually.  The economic realities of the 21st century may not allow college athletics to be restrictive of the sponsorship.  The non-compensatory nature of college football is closely associated with racial issues rooted in the NCAA organization. There is no way that college athletics could be making use of the athletes’ titles without offering any form of compensation.

Commercialization and professionalization emerged in the 1920s where the popularity of college sports grew as there was increased access to college sports due to more media airing college competitions. NCAA benefited solely from the profits made by the broadcasting of sports. Many schools wanted to join the NCAA due to the financial benefit attributed to the commercialization of college athletics.  Universities that were not part of the NCAA felt like they were missing out due to the profits that the participating institutions were sharing.   There was a remarkable increase in the demand for the professionalization of the institution games.  During the same period, NCAA was firmly regulating the participating institutions by ensuring that no other payments or grants were made to the athletes in the member institutions…………….

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