2. Is there a current plan to potentially track where money is being allocated?
3. Do private schools spend and receive more money than public schools on athletics? Do donors specify where they want their money utilized?
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1. Are athlete GPAs rigged to reflect a better grade?
2. Is there a current plan to potentially track where money is being allocated? 3. Do private schools spend and receive more money than public schools on athletics? Do donors specify where they want their money utilized?
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1. If college athletes were to get paid, how would universities determine how much to pay them and would they still receive scholarships?
2. Would the NCAA set a limit on how much they can pay players? 3. Do you think that there would be a problem for the small universities if a minimum salary was created for athletes? As a huge sports fan myself, I really enjoyed learning about the financials of powerhouses in the world of college athletics. We all know that these programs make immense amounts of money, but we never really see the raw numbers, and when we do, they are startling. I was also very intriguing to see that the mens sports basically finance the women's sports programs that are not very profitable at all. There are some schools that have very strong womens basketball teams and I would assume that they make a fairly decent profit, but they are few and far between. I really enjoyed the ability to ask questions and discuss the material during the presentation. I think that it gave us the chance to really analyze the material and get a sense for how startling some of the numbers can be. As far as financial distribution goes, I think that sports programs are very lucrative for universities and need to be maintained. However, there is more than enough money in the system to make the distribution of wealth a little more even between academics and athletics. 1) Is there any way for these schools to share the money with the sports that are less successful? Or maybe even towards other programs?
2) What are these college athletes saying about the idea of being paid? What is their opinion on the subject? 3) What is the head of NCAA 's opinion ? Do they think that these athletes should be paid ? Or do they think that students athletes are students first? This topic was very interesting and raised a lot of questions and discussion. I didn't know very much about college athletics so to see how much of an industry it has become was interesting. I found it very disturbing the inequality between men's and women's sports teams throughout the nation. Not just in the revenue they bring in but how much their coaching staff is paid. That could definitely be a topic of discussion not just in our classroom but nation wide. College sports are just another outlet of gender inequality. The other idea that really struck me was that we are debating whether or not to pay college athletes. Yes sports bring many things to a university. They bring communities together and put the school on the map. Not to mention the enormous amount of money they bring into the schools. However if you paid college athletes that would set a precedent that would be hard to break away from. Where does it end? If you pay college athletes then should musicians be paid too ? And would all athletes be paid or just the major sports athletes? It just complicates the system and takes away from what going to college is all about; receiving an education. For this week’s blog post, please write down at least 3 questions that pertain to the topic and that you want to be answered. Please ask questions which you are either confused or intrigued by. Along with these three questions please write a response to how the first day went. Describe your own opinion on the topic and how you believe the money should be distributed. Reflect back on how the 5 large schools distributed their money and compare that to how you would distribute it. Would you give most of the money to the sports programs or give a majority to the academic programs? Voice your opinion in a blog post that will be due by Midnight tonight, March 16, 2016. Please remember to tag the blog post as “Blog Post 00” and also tag “your name.”What is the largest amount of money that can be taken out of a college student's tuition in order to fund sports? Are there any movements to stop this practice? Would pay to college athletes be equal for all athletes/teammates or would some players on a team be able to be paid more than others?
I was really interested in the discussion we had in class on Wednesday, but I think some compelling arguments were made for both sides. I think that big schools that get recognition pay their athletes in the way of large publicity, so that those athletes may be able to have a career out of college. Don't give them any more money, put the extra money (if you have it) towards charity or education programs, but those top-level athletes probably don't need it. I'm also still stuck on the fact that if high-performing student-athletes got paid, so should high-performing students in academics. That would provide more incentive for students to do well and it would take away some of that separation between student-athletes and just regular students. Furthermore, I think the opportunity for paid sports in college opens lots more doors for possible discrimination, whether it be gender-based, class-based, sport-based, etc. 1. Are there any D1 schools that have athletic teams that are thriving and are able to distribute the money across other programs and academics? Is this possible?
2. How and when did this cycle of money solely contributing to these teams begin? Can this cycle ever end? will it only get worse? 3.Are there any alternatives to allow other athletic teams, programs, and academics to be fairly contributed with money? This was a very interesting lecture and discussion, and definitely a very conflicting topic as both sides have very convincing evidence. On one side you see that almost all the money is being contributed to one athletic team rather than being distributed to other organizations, clubs, and academics. However, on the other side, you see that most of the school's revenue and incoming class are dependent on that teams success. I think that we should see more funding going to other athletics, programs, and most importantly to academics. However, I believe that most of the revenue made by that athletic teams should go back to funding for their team, since that is where most of the school's success comes from. 1. Is the gender gap in sports revenue an inevitable problem or are there any possible solutions?
2. If student-athletes would be payed where would the money come from? Would schools not making a revenue off their sports teams also have to pay players, even if it put them in debt? 3. How does spending for sports differ between smaller private schools and larger public schools? Description: I really enjoyed this presentation because it opened my eyes to the complexity of college sports. I had no idea how much money was being spent and made by these schools. The presentation was engaging and the discussions we had in class brought up great points that made me really have to think to decide my opinion. I also enjoyed the various mediums the group used, such as discussions, videos, pictures, statistics, etc. This presentation reminded me of the documentary we watched that mentioned how colleges are starting to act like corporations. Sports are a major part of some colleges, and some people choose colleges because of the sports, which is why so much money is spent by the big public schools to have the best programs and teams possible. -Maddie McGregor
Description: I really enjoyed this presentation from the sports group. I especially enjoyed how engaging their presentation was with the audience, requiring us to voice our opinion on this debated subject. The group showed absolute understanding of their topic, efficiently and immediately answering nearly all of the questions from the audience. Personally, I feel that college athletes should by no means be paid for their presence on the team, disregarding their sports affiliated scholarships. College’s primary purpose is to educate, not to entertain with sports. I do agree that sports are a definite bonus to a school, but they should never dominate over education, in this case hypothetically giving college athletes an enormous advantage by paying them for playing sports. On another note, the idea of colleges using student tuition to fund their teams and/or anything that is associated with sports is absurd to me. Today, as we covered earlier this year in class, colleges are unbelievably expensive, making it severely difficult for some families to pay for. If they were to discover that a large amount of their money were to go to the college’s athletic program, rather than something correlated to academics, they should be angry. I can say it hundreds of times, school is about receiving an education, not watching sports! As Michael said, they are student-athletes, not athlete-students; education comes first dawg! Tyler Andrews
I enjoyed listening and learning about money in the world of college athletics. The presentation was really engaging because of the choice to incorporate a video, group discussion and lecture. Each presenter’s enthusiasm and deep understanding made the presentation interesting. After hearing both sides during the presentation I believe that college athletes should not be paid. While I think it is great that the sports the athletes play bring in revenue to the school, they should not get paid since they get rewarded in other ways. I am referring to premier academic assistance that non-athletes do not receive, coaching that could lead them to a career in their sport, and higher scholarships. I also, believe that non college athletes tuition should not go to athletic programs. These students are at the school to further their own education. If schools are taking money from non-athlete’s tuition, then the athletic department should create a new budget. Regina Ballew Questions:
1) If student-athletes were to get paid for what they do, how would it effect other students who do unpaid work for their universities (ie singers, actors, band members)? 2) Even though it may make sense for student-athletes to receive money from the school itself, why are they not allowed sponsorship money of any type (ie in NCAA football games current players were always nameless, because the NCAA rule prevented EA from paying for the right to use players' actual names) 3) How different is the sports-based-revenue at universities without major football programs different from those with massive scale football teams, like those we looked at in class? Especially in regards to schools that are dominant in other sports, but have no/barely have a football team (ie Duke, Gonzaga, Kentucky, etc.) Description: I enjoyed the presentation today, even if it was a bit statistics heavy. I enjoyed having discussion throughout the class as it made it super engaging and prevented the aforementioned stats from getting overtly boring. I can see that both sides of the argument have very valid perspectives and, as it doesn't affect me, I prefer to remain neutral as I believe, no matter what happens going foreword into paying student-athletes, so long as the right people put time, thought, and work into the issue, the correct decision will be made, though I am most definitely not one of those people. I do believe it would be reasonable for student-athletes to be eligible to sign sponsorship deals in the same way that professional athletes do, but I can see why many would believe this to be a slippery slope. |
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