Emily Christen
You should write about athlete pay in an investigative article or analytical essay because I, as part of your audience found the topic very compelling. This is because we all know how important sports are at some schools and at Gonzaga, so I think we all could relate to the issue whether we're athletes or not. Furthermore, as a controversial issue, people have opinions about things like athlete pay and want to read about statistics so I think going further with this topic would appeal to a lot of people. I'm curious to see what other collegiate athletes have to say about the issue- and coaches. Coaches know better than anyone except the athletes themselves how much work is being put into their sport and may have a valuable perspective on whether or not their students should be paid, and if so, if they should all be paid equally, etc. They probably have a less biased opinion than athletes as well, so I'd be very interested in reading this as an investigative article or traditional essay. I'd even like to see it in another power point presentation, as you all did very well with the first one.
Emily Christen
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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. 1. What can we do to make both college men and college women sports teams more equally appreciated and funded?
2. Why is it okay that coaches are being paid so much compared to other professions? Couldn't this money be going to more academics? For example, university coaches are paid up to $7 million a year while a doctor is paid roughly $250k a year. 3. What can we as students at a private university do to address the issue of money/power in sports programs in universities? I really enjoyed this groups first day of presenting. They made good use of different mediums of teaching, ie the video, a short discussion, lecture with a PowerPoint and they allowed question and answer times. They clearly did research, and each of them played a role in the presentation. I learned a lot about sports at universities, especially since that is not something I focus on in my everyday life. The discussions in class brought up a lot of good points, especially when it came to a lot of the funding going to recruitment and how men and women's teams aren't being funded the same amount. A lot of good discussion was brought up today, and I found that big sports teams do draw in a lot of students to the school just for academics. I think the money that the teams profit from should go to a variety of different places, but should not just be given to individual players or organizations. Someone in class brought up the idea that for any amount the team invests in something they should match it with funding to academics or other organizations in the school that benefits other students. I also agree that student-athletes are students first, as they wouldn’t be at the school if they didn’t want to continue their education, and that universities main goal is to educate. Because of this, I think that funding definitely should go to the university itself, and there should be a limit on how much the sports programs take away from other student’s tuition. Coral Ng |
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