https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz College athletes should get paid en-us 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC 2023-04-14 19:00:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://media4.giphy.com/media/TEn16Gsw6q81Ruz4N0/giphy.gif 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540162 Sports are activities involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Sports are a big business. Their totals add up to about $100 billion a year. Making some professional athletes some of the highest paid people in the world.

]]> 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540162 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540165 College athletes should be paid the wages they deserve. They go out there and play their hearts out, putting their bodies on the line, and balancing school work on top of that. They raise tons of money and even more is gambled on the outcome. However, they get none of it.]]> 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540165 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540167 You may argue, most athletes already have scholarship money. And full ride athletes already don’t have to pay anything, with free housing, free food, and free team clothing. However, while bringing in billions of dollars for the NCAA, most of these athletes come from difficult backgrounds and their families are financially unstable. Outside of the college campus these athletes have little to no spending money.]]> 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540167 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540170 Micheal Wilbon, a man who works for ESPN and was once strongly against the idea of college players being paid has now realized he’s been wrong and explains why. “If a music student goes out in the summer and earns 50 grand, who objects? Who even knows? The student-musician is no less a college student because he struck a lucrative deal”.]]> 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540170 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540184 People of ESPN have a debate and feel as though college athletes should be paid. “If they can make an appearance, if they could do an endorsement, let them make those dollars. Coaches are making millions, everyone’s making money, let the kids make money”.]]> 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540184 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540186 This is a former executive of the NCAA and he speaks on how he opened his eyes and realized that college athletes should be compensated. “In his retirement the NCAA first and longest serving executive director Walter Byers described  college sports as the plantation mentality resurrected and blessed by today’s campus executives”.]]> 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540186 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540190 Baylor NCAA Boys Basketball Team Wins National Championship.]]> 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540190 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540194 Average revenue of each athletic department.]]> 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540194 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540208 Just by making this tournament, a school earns its conference a projected $1.67 million over the next six years, broken into annual payments from the NCAA.]]> 2021-04-21 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1442540208 88802824 https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1604497177 Brennan Thomas presents a valid argument about college football. They are some of the hardest workers balancing rigorous college courses and Grinding through grueling workouts, practices and games every day of the year. College football has become a multi-million dollar business. Universities continue to make money, while all athletes are given is a scholarship. The biggest issue with this is that the expenses required to attend a college exceed the amount that athletes are awarded in their scholarships.]]> 2021-06-14 06:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/88802824/x5top9pto6gdtomz/wish/1604497177