You should write about what happens to athletes that do not get drafted in the form of a documentary because I found this compelling because of the incredibly small percentage of college athletes that end up in the pros.
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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 "UT's Football Program Is the Most Profitable in the Country. By a Lot. - Texas Monthly."
Texas Monthly. N.p., 22 Oct. 2014. Web. 15 Mar. 2016. The University of Texas football is one of the most profitable programs in all of football and collegiate sports in general. Texas football is commonly denoted as "a way of life." Texas Monthly, a popular Texas news source, explains that even after a losing season, they make more than any other football program in the nation. They round up a smooth $109 million annually. The expenses of the team stacks up to $27 million. Although grand, ticket sales alone pay for this with a net profit of $7 million. The program makes enough to help support most non-revenue generating teams like golf, softball or volleyball. http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/uts-football-program-is-the-most-profitable-in-the-country-by-a-lot/ Franklin. "The Ohio State University Department of Athletics." Athletics Department Expenditures and Revenues 8.7 (2014): 67. Web. This financial report from the Ohio State University Intercollegiate Athletics Department clearly outlines what the department spends its money on and where it profits.It shows factual information of revenues and expenditures of both men’s and women’s sports. In total, it puts $32,18,460 towards coaching staff alone and spends an additional $1,736,253 on recruiting high school players. The department gives out $24,385,188 worth of scholarships to athletes that play for the university. Almost all of the above stated expenditures is made up for in the $54,598,907 in revenue from ticket sales. The department annually charges over $2 million in parking for events and another $2 million in concessions for events. This report will be very beneficial to our group because it will allow us to find how much profit is made from the department in concern to expenditures and revenues. This will make it possible to create hypotheses as to where the money should be distributed. It certainly raises questions, as there is a profit of over $22 million made from athletics programs. Will Hobson, Steven Rich. "Playing in the Red." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2015. Web. 29 Feb. 2016. https://ohioauditor.gov/AuditSearch/Reports/2014/OSU_Department_of_Athletics_13-Franklin.pdf Story Will Hobson, Steven Rich. "College Athletic Departments Are Taking in More Money than Ever – and Spending It Just as Fast." Washington Post. The Washington Post, n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2016. This article from the Washington Post focuses on how the college’s athletic departments are spending way more money than what they bring in. Will Hobson and Steven Rich, the authors of this article, use specifics such as Rutgers and Auburn's Athletic Programs. Auburn for example, spent $13.9 million to build an 11,000 square foot, high definition screen (the size of a five-story building). Rutgers on the other hand spent $102 million on expanding the football stadium in a hope to bring the program back to a financially self-sufficient point. Neither of these investments led to a greater profit in either school and ultimately led to these schools being in debt. The article keeps going into more in depth and more examples of how schools are spending more than they bring in. Only a select number of schools in the entire country are actually not spending more than they should. Will Hobson and Steven Rich both seem to be credible sources. Will Hobson is a sports reporter for Washington Post and Steven Rich is a Database Investigator for Investigations. This source will be very helpful for our forum because it goes into how college spends the revenue they bring in. This article shows how colleges are spending the money poorly and it doesn’t look good on the school. This reflects back onto our topic because we are trying to figure out how we can truly fix how colleges spend the revenue created from sports. Whether these colleges could spend the money smarter, such as paying their hard working athletes who ultimately deserve the money. This article doesn’t raise many questions because it is such a well thought out one and it goes into detail on every aspect of the article. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/running-up-the-bills/ "University of Washington - Seattle Campus Sports." College Factual. 2013. Web. 01 Mar. 2016. The main idea of this source is to provide the audience with information of schools revenue and where it goes. The main revenue that College Factual focusses on is how schools distribute their income through athletics. This site provides how much money was spent on which sports, which gender, coaches, scholarships and money invested into certain programs. College Factual’s mission statement is to “help students get education for less”. The two main founders of this site are Phil Phelan and Josh McWilliam. The reason why they decided to create a site where you can see how schools distribute their money is because when they went through college they believe that they “ripped off” and they ended up being over $100,000 in debt when they finished their education. They both have backgrounds in scalable online publishing, online marketplaces and behavioral science which they utilize to find their information from other schools to put on their site. They get their information from a dataset named “EFA”; this dataset is where all public universities are required to post their financial data and it is registered by the Department of Education. This is a secure and safe site to use because they pull their data directly off of the Department of Education’s official dataset. This site is useful for my group’s project because we will be able to directly see where the Universities distribute their money through athletics. Our main facts will come from this site as we do our research on our top five schools that we chose. This will allows us to compare numbers from school to school and help us come up with our new strategy of distributing money. http://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-washington-seattle-campus/student-life/sports/# “Where Does the Money Go?”William. 16 Jan. 2013. Web. 01 Mar. 2016. The article, “Where Does the Money Go?” looks deeper into how colleges spend the revenue made by the athletic programs. The article dives into the notion that universities spend far more of their money on athletes then they do students, putting an emphasis on sports rather than education. The article also mentions how as time goes on universities are putting more and more money back into their athletic programs, while semi-neglecting the academic side. William Gonch, the author of the article, wrote this for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). The ACTA is an organization that promotes academic freedom, excellence, and accountability at universities. Based off of where this article is published and how the article is written, I found this article to be very reliable. I think this article will help our forum presentation, because of the content. The article discusses how much the University of Alabama spends on athletes compared to students and the trends in sports spending. Also the article brings up the idea of how more money should be used for academics, rather than sports. http://www.goacta.org/the_forum/where_does_the_money_go
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