NCAA Athletes

Sports and games have been a source of income for many whilst serving as a kind of exercise for others; hence, the government should compensate big-time NCAA athletes. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit entity that governs sports from 1,281 clubs, institutions, leagues, and individuals. Furthermore, the organization supports many athletic programs at various universities as well as schools in Canada and the United States, assisting over 450,000 university student-athletes who compete in college athletics each year. These athletes experience a lot of challenges in a society associated with a diverse economic background as well as social encounters.

NCAA has the responsibility of managing these athletes in the association which help them meet their everyday life challenges. Additionally, the NCAA has gained prominence over the last few decades because of these university and college athlete-students who work diligently to show their talents and abilities. Consequently, the government and other relevant organizations need to pay big time NCAA athletes for their achievement as well as efforts towards making the association grow. The NCAA sports industry acquires approximately $11 billion of income every year as revenue. Almost fifty colleges have reported an annual income surpassing $50 million which should be adequate to pay these big time athletes after performing for over the years. Therefore, the NCAA should allow the sharing of the revenues with these student-athletes. The relevant authorities should pay the big-time NCAA athletes as a way of appreciation. Additionally, gratitude from the NCAA will assist the government to pay these big names pension as well as other retirement benefits as a way to support good and outstanding performance in the games (Seunghyun and Choi, 787).

However, the effort of NCAA has borne no good results because the college sports industry is surrounded and managed by few money-adoring individuals in the association who sabotage operations of the organization despite large funds collected. These few persons have substantially impacted on the efforts made by advocates fighting for the payment of these all-time athletes who are members of the NCAA. The appreciation of these people should go a long way to improving the lives after retiring (Phifer, 478)

Furthermore, big-time athletes should be paid the bonuses to encourage the involvement of other individuals who may have the interest of taking sports as their profession. These college athletes have made a lot of accomplishes to their respective teams and clubs which accompanied the awarding of bonuses to the team’s coach while the players are only given T-shirts and hats after a competition. The policy adopted by the NCAA fraternity as well as the relevant bodies to manage this college sports activity is undermining the efforts and considered an offensive act. The NCAA underpays the group of players that contributed much to the achievement of the team at the expense of the coaches who pocket huge sums of money in the range of thousands of dollars yearly.

Despite receiving the small payment during their time at the club, the NCAA do not pay them after putting an outstanding performance in the game of college sports industry. The association receives approximately billions of dollars collected during the events from spectators, but none of the college athletes receives the payment even after retiring. Additionally, I believe it is high time the NCAA big-time players to begin receiving payment for their efforts in building and helping the association gets its existing reputation. The athletes are always frustrated by the organization as NCAA gathers nearly billions of dollars every single year for organizing the college sports. For instance, it is devastating when these individuals receive no payment or bonuses despite NCAA collecting $1.1 billion annually from the CBS and Turner for broadcasting the games.

Moreover, the ESPN pays the NCAA approximately $470 million every year for the College Football Playoff while the individual colleges and conferences make extra millions during the regular season. Therefore, the money that this organization collects is so much that is time to consider paying these college athletes to help them earn a living rather than considering it for popularity purposes (Bush, 59). I extremely support the idea to pay the big-time NCAA players, and it is within the moral concepts of the society that everyone deserves payment for their work.

I believe these individuals do need to have a share of this income collected by the association to support the team morale of the growing and upcoming talent to join the college sports industry to help them develop. However, the current society that is money-centered significantly influence the payment of these big-time players of the NCAA. As a result, the association has failed to grasp the upcoming talents as they discover that they are wasting their time engaging in a sport that adds no profits in their life.

Currently, the college players are receiving the education that is worth a six-figure sum. Additionally, the college fraternity is offering these individuals a life-transforming opportunity to improve their intellectual capacity in the society. College sports administrators have revealed that most of the college athletes are getting dragged into fake classes to transform them and help them eligible. For instance, the famous North Carolina academic scandal was as a result of the poaching these players into fake classes to maintain them within the team and club for the good of the college. However, as providing education is important to these section of players there is still need to build their participation in the club through cash payment. I understand that keeping these individuals eligible is important, but the lack of motivation through cash can lead to a devastating outcome to the NCAA who are the primary beneficiary of the college sports activities. (Wyrick, 23)

The only way to encourage college sports participation is through pay-for-play policy where they should not focus on paying the bills of the students but pay them for playing in the league. Taking care of the students’ educational needs through sponsorship is one of the unreliable ways to support the talents of these young students who face various financial challenges during their studies. Besides, some of these students are forced to go to class against their will to continue playing for the team.

A large number of students have rejected the offer of going into fake classes to increase their educational experiences in the society as they expected cash payment for their services in the team. Although these intangibles provided by the colleges and NCAA lay the path to success for some individuals, it is time for the management to reconsider also giving these players other financial benefits after every play. These intangibles the institutions offer to the players cannot pay the bills at all, calling for reform in the management of NCAA to beginning offering payment to the current players (Groves, 103). Additionally, they should provide cash payment to support their living rather than forcing them to class as most of them just sit wasting their opportunity and life.

Despite the merger payment received by these NCAA players through educational sponsorship and scholarship, the big-time athletes have never received any form of payment in either through bonuses or other benefits from NCAA. There is the need for the college players to get payment and compensations to take care of their living expenses in the community. Additionally, the relatives and families of these big-time college athletes should have free travels to the games to build the trust between these individual players and the colleges concerning their well-being. Therefore, I can suggest that big-time NCAA athletes should receive payment from the association to cover the expenses including bonuses and other financial benefits that can help. Intangible such as education can be one of the best policies and strategies to help these athletes acquire advanced knowledge, and they are also wasting players’ opportunity and time.

In nutshell, with the comprehensive argument of the topic of I believe it is time the big time NCAA athletes start receiving their compensation, payment, as well as bonuses to encourage participation by the students. NCAA is an association that integrates the whole fraternity of college athletes in the USA it should also look into the welfare of its members who display outstanding performance during playing.

Providing education is important to these section of athletes there is still need to build their participation in the club through cash payment. I understand that keeping these individuals eligible is important, but the lack of motivation through cash can lead to a devastating outcome to the NCAA who are the primary beneficiary of the college sports activities. A large number of students have rejected the offer of going into fake classes to increase their educational experiences in the society as they expected cash payment for their services in the team. Although these intangibles delivered by the colleges and NCAA lay the path to success for most individuals, it is time for the management to reexamine also giving these athletes other financial benefits after every performance.

Works Cited

Bush, Joel. “Student or Professional Athlete - Tax Implications in the United States If College Athletes Were to Be Classified as Paid Employees.” Labor Law Journal, vol. 68, no. 1, Spring2017, pp. 58-63.

Groves, Roger M. “A Solution for the Pay for Play Dilemma of College Athletes: A Novel Compensation Structure Tethered to Amateurism and Education.” Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring2016, pp. 101-143.

Phifer, Matthew. “The Student-Athlete’s Right to Organize: How the United States Is Violating the International Labor Organization Constitution and Declaration of Fundamental Rights.” American University International Law Review, vol. 31, no. 3, Aug. 2016, pp. 475-505.

Seunghyun, Hwang and Choi Youngjun. “Data Mining in the Exploration of Stressors among NCAA Student Athletes.” Psychological Reports, vol. 119, no. 3, Dec. 2016, pp. 787-803.

Wyrick, David L. Milroy, Jeffrey J. Reifsteck, Erin J. Rulison, Kelly L and Dudley, William N. “Investigating Risk Factors Predictive of Problem Outcomes Experienced by First Year Drinking and Non-Drinking Collegiate Student-Athletes.” Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education, vol. 60, no. 3, Dec. 2016, pp. 22-41.