Paying Student Athletes

Imagine this Mr. Perfect, a highly successful college football student-athlete, is shattering every record at once held in the sport. He is on the cover of ESPN and SI magazine. His face is lopsided on televisions nationwide. Everyone knows his face and name. He has all the fame that he dreamed of, unless he has no property. NCAA rules state that no student-athlete understructure obtain a job. His full ride experience, after classes and books, bargonly leaves him with money to take tutorship of necessities. An alumna of the develop and coarse fan overhauls him out and gives him $500 as a gift.The NCAA finds out and Bam The school is hit with fines and preemptt vie in any(prenominal) bowl games for two days, so much for the victorious season. Also, he is banned from the sport in any NCAA regulated school. Mr. Perfect, beingness a sopho more(prenominal), has one year go forth before he can enter the draft. Now, instead of being a sure shot starting round draft, he may drop to third round at best. Thats millions of dollars lost beca employ of a $500 gift. The team suffers, the school suffers, and he suffers. Incidents, such as the one above, happens every now and again in college sports.College athletes ar non allowed to accept gifts, obtain jobs during the school year, or use their forecast and likeness in any way for monetary gain. This leaves many student athletes well known, yet well broke. many a(prenominal) student-athletes, especially those who represent sports that generate millions of dollars in revenue, wonder why they cant be compensated for their efforts. Student athletes should be compensated to help support their aliveness expenses plot attending college. College football and hoops produces the most revenue than any other college sport.According to Gibson (2013), College basketball and football together generate more than $6 billion in annual revenuetwo years ago, the NCAA and CBS/Turner Sports agreed on a $10. 8 billion hat ch to broadcast March Madness basketball games until 2024. With all the monies that be generated from these sports, not one cent has been compensable out to the student-athlete. Montopoli (2013), reports that the top universitys athletes argon being denied $6. 2 billion from 2011-2015 and that combined the athletes had a fair grocery store value of roughly $2 million above their college scholarships.That is highway looting and unfair to the athletes who risk everything on the football field or basketball court. College coaches, some of which ar averaging more or less three to four million per year, be making more than the athletic director and even the president of the university while the student-athletes are putting their health and safety on the line with nought in return. Imagine struggling to buy clothes and shoes, walking to practice, to agnize Coach Richman pulling up in a Bentley.With the revenue thats being generated, many injured student-athletes could use a part of it to help pay for treatment. While the NCAA requires the student-athletes to have some type of insurance, unclear standards and bewilderment as to the conditions of the insurance, leaves the student-athlete responsible for most, if not all of the medical bills (Peterson, 2009). Some colleges, broadly speaking the major division 1 colleges, pay for injuries while the student-athlete is attending college. after(prenominal) college, the athlete is left fending for his/her self.An injury to the student-athlete can void their scholarship as well. Scholarships are renewed year to year. Therefore if an athlete is injured severely, his/her scholarship may not be renewed, leaving the student with unpaid care and medical bills. Also, colleges input loopholes so the medical payout is not mischievous. There are documented cases in which the college labeled the conditions an illness and not a sports-related injury, which left the student-athlete in debt with medical bills. A similar cas e like this happened to a Colgate University crew member (Peterson, 2009).Ignorance to the consent forms being signed has proved detrimental to the student as well. Now imagine that injured student-athlete at nursing home with a pile of medical bills, no longer attending the university that he once adored, contacting a video game thats victimisation his depict and likeness. He wonders why he cant witness a share of the monies expediencyed from the sell of the game. Hes not alone. Many student-athletes do not know that they sign away their right to profit from their image or likeness when they enter into NCAA sports.In fact, the very like rights that the student-athlete releases are now owned by the NCAA and its licensees. Meaning, the NCAA and its licensees can do whatsoever it feels with your image and likeness to turn a profit for them. Former college athletes of late put together a federal class-action lawsuit against the NCAA stating that the use of their image or liken ess is infringing their rights. Also, stating that the NCAA forces the athletes to sign away their rights in order to play college sports.This happens year after year due to the fact that college athlete are not properly informed of their legal rights. A survey was taken and according to Wolverton (2011), 97 percent of respondents liked being featured in video games, and two-thirds believed that the way the NCAA and video-game companies used their image or likeness was fair. and only 33 percent believed that their athletic scholarship was sufficient defrayal for the use of their image or likeness. If these student-athletes dont know what they are signing the outcome could be critical.Now the college athlete cant be in a commercial, sell any memorabilia, be paid to attend or speak at functions or anything that would result in the athlete earning a little cash to make ends meet during the schoolman year. He/she has basically become a slave to the NCAA. These student slaves are bei ng misguided under the free ride scholarship. As a matter of fact, a Division 1 athletes winds up having to pay about $3,000 in school related expenses not cover by grants-in-aid, Associated squeeze (2010).That is just school related expenses, now factor in in the flesh(predicate) expenses and the number could easily double. With room and board, parking fees, etc. being covered by the student-athlete, the result of this can lead to multiple athletes risking everything to obtain money from anywhere they can. Sports agents feed off of this urge and capitalize on the opportunity to have a star student-athlete in their pocket. In conclusion, paying the student-athletes a small amount of the profit can have a huge benefit. Athletes will be able to take care of personal and school expenses.Also, they will be hesitant to accept monies from an outside source which can result in suspensions or infractions. If an agreement cant be reached with student-athletes receiving a stipend, the athl etes should be able to market themselves through commercials or in any other way that they can benefit from the use of their image or likeness thats not negative. With the hard work, dedication, and sacrifice that these student-athletes confide into their sport, some form of financial compensation should be awarded to them.