Current Issues

No mater where you go in the world people will always have different opinions about ethical issues in sports. Everyone is always entitled to his or her own opinion but sometimes the line needs to be drawn when it comes to affecting many people around them. The main issue I want to discuss in this paper is something college athletes will always have in the back of their minds and that is the idea of getting paid to play. Ending the exiting of so called ‘amateurism’ in college athletics. College athletes are unpaid players in dollar amounts but are receiving a cheaper or possible free education by way of scholarships. Although they are getting an education from the school they are faced with the elephant in the room of not receiving the benefits from their play on the court/field that the school is benefiting from immensely. Something definitely needs to be changed with our growing economy and the changing of ways from the past, with regards to TV deals and sponsorships to name a few. In this paper I hope to be able to bring both sides in the discussion and show why and why not this rule change might take place in college athletics.

This is one of the most controversial issues colleges are facing and will always be a tough discussion with peoples varied opinions. In a story done by Santa Clara University they say that “those that think they should be paid believe that colleges and universities generating millions of dollars in revenue are unjustly exploiting the labor of student-athletes by not giving them their fair share of the profits” (Hanson) they also go on to explain the scholarships of these athletes and provide their beliefs that it is just not enough. With our growing economy and with TV deals being recorded in hundreds of millions within a conference, the schools are bringing in millions with the use of their athletes. These schools are bringing in millions of dollars and they value their full-ride athletic scholarship is not an equivalent to their...