Will Foley
Are you kidding me? Students pay up to $50,000 a year and the school can’t provide classes for students during registration? Registration can be one of the most stressful parts of the school year. If you don’t get the classes you need, then you are doomed to graduate in four years. To say the least, I have not been pleased at all with my experience from registration at Gonzaga. The first issue I see with the system is that it forces all students to stay up to midnight on a school night to register for their classes, or for some people just a class. I think that registration should be moved to 10pm, or at a time more reasonable where students don’t have to sacrifice a nights worth of sleep just to get a few classes. The other issue with the registration system is that there is a limited amount of classes for topics that the university forces you to take. When I tried to register for a 200 level religion class, there were literally zero spots left in any class. If I am required to take these classes, then why would the university not create more time slots for students? Between the poor time slot that is forced upon the students to register and the limited amount of space in each class, I think it would be safe to call this system a cluster. When I registered I was only able to sign up for two classes, a total of 6 credits…. Then for the next week I have to worry about whether or not my advisor can write me into those classes, which in some cases she can’t. Overall, several parts of this registration system are corrupt and need to be fixed. Reflection: I believe this piece I wrote about is engaging because I express a strong voice of mine that shows my true opinion about this topic. The reason why I wrote about this topic is because I find the whole process of registration very stressful, and the reason why it is original is because I use my own examples. The type of opinion I decided to use is involuntary opinion. Throughout my blog post I used personal examples and examples, which is how “What are Opinions” teaches us on how to back up your opinions. 1) The hierarchical need that I am choosing is Love. People use social media in some cases to feel wanted. If they obtain a certain amount of likes, then they may feel that people like them, and this makes them feel loved.
2) Whats your fav social Media? -Will Foley My thoughts on the american dream haven't necessarily changed that much. I knew the american dream is difficult to come by, and not everyone is able to obtain their dream. Today I learned how rare it is that people are able to obtain their dreams.
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The style I would like to try to write my un essay in is a persuasive essay. I previously tried to write a persuasive essay, last un essay, and it did not turn out how I hoped. This time around I believe I know what I can change to make it actually persuade the audience. |
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
- How does the University of Washington distribute their money from Athletics?
- If college athletes are to be paid, should they still be given full ride scholarships to that University?
- Should the NCAA allow colleges to invest so much on athletic programs, when instead an equal portion could be invested into both sports and academics?
- Why is it that society puts such a huge emphasis on getting higher education, yet universities, alumni, and donors put so much money into athletic programs rather than academics?
- With the rise of college athletes complaining about not being paid, should college coaches decrease the hours that the students practice to allow them to get a job to pay for basic essentials?
- If college athletes were to be paid, would colleges distribute the money equally between sports, gender, and race?
- With Collegiate athletics bringing in a profit that is miniscule in comparison to all money brought into a university, why is so much emphasis still put on sports?
- Since brands and suppliers rely so much on College sports to advertise and wear their products, why don’t the athletes receive compensation for modeling new products?
- Should schools only use money generated through athletics for athletic facilities?
- Should only sports that create revenue be compensated with money?
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"University of Washington - Seattle Campus Sports." College Factual. 2013. Web. 01 Mar. 2016. http://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-washington-seattle-campus/student-life/sports/# .
I am using a true summary for my article from College Factual. The reason why I am using a true summary is because this website mainly gave me straight numbers from the spending of schools athletics programs. This will be most helpful for my annotated bibliography because there is no need to add a bias to this post because it only offers the financial statement from school. There is no way to judge this article on what the material is saying, so the best way to cite this is through the true summary format so the audience knows exactly what I got from this site.
Annotated Bibliography (1st Paragraph True Summary) :
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.
Will Foley
The research question that our group is digging into is whether or not D1 athletes should be payed for playing or not payed, and how the school should distribute revenue from athletic events. The reason why I am interested in this question is because I have several friends in college playing sports and struggling to get by with money.
Playing D1 sports is a full time job because you work more than 40 hours of week and don’t get paid with direct cash. Granted, you get paid through scholarships and academics, but when you need new clothes or other items you don’t have any money to buy the items. This is important for us to talk about because Gonzaga is full of athletes that share the classroom with regular students and the system needs to be changed to be more practical in ways that reward athletes fairly. If we are able to change the system with our new ideas, then the school will be able to distribute a fair amount of money to the athletes which will leave extra money to put back into the school to help students like us. Some of the major schools we are focusing on are Alabama, University of Washington, Oregon and Ohio State. The people that have the power in this scenario are the people who handle the finances in the athletic department through the school.
I know that some athletes are receiving free education and housing from playing sports; but some athletes are not given that full scholarship opportunity, and they don’t have any spare time to have a job and acquire money to survive. Something I am interested in researching is the way schools distribute their money through athletics. I don’t believe I have more knowledge than anyone in the school right now because I am not an athlete and don’t know what the commitment feels like. Once I go in depth in my study, I will have more knowledge than all kids in our English class.
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