According to a 1994. Los Angeles Daily News article since 1956 institutions of higher learning have offered athletically gifted young men and women the opportunity to play their respective sports at the Division-1 collegiate level. For their services to the universities, these student-athletes would receive compensation in the form of an athletic scholarship. For many years that was enough for most college athletes. The opportunity to go to college free of charge and play the sport you love was the dream of many a high school athlete. But in recent years, some have begun to ask for more. These people believe that a college scholarship for an athlete is no longer enough compensation. They feel that college athletes should be compensated financially, just like athletes on the professional level. So what has changed? Why all of a sudden is a full-ride at an institution of higher learning no longer good enough? I feel the cause of this controversy is actually closely similar to its proposed solution: MONEY. College athletes are labled amateurs by the and NCAA Some say this is the moral basis for not paying college athletes. Opponents of the current system however say that this whole amateur statement is just an excuse for the universi
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But in all honesty, the summer is the best time for improving yourself athletically. While their tuition, room and boards are paid for by their scholarships; some of them have very little left for other expenses. You want to be on the court, working on your game, getting better. According to a 2000 Chicago Sun-Times article. hope to get a {summer} job so that they can survive {financially}, get by, during the school year. ties and the NCAA, to keep all the money they make off these players for themselves. Without having graduated from college, many of them will not have the safety net that a college degree can provide. Blackistone in a 1995 in The Dallas Morning News College athletics has been widespread with scandals involving athletes accepting money from sports agents. This deal is for the next 11 years, starting in 2003. The NBA for example, under the current collective bargaining agreement, players receive 61% of all the revenue that the league makes. If my situation at home had permitted me to stay in school, if I had been well off, I think I would have stayed in school. While in the pros athletes are allowed to receive a percentage of this money in a process called "revenue sharing", there is no such system in the collegiate ranks.
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