Within March, hundreds of men’s college basketball players dreams are crushed for no reward. During the march madness tournament, athletes, fans, ESPN analyst, and all people who consist in creating a bracket have heartbreaks and lots of excitement. While there are a few others who do not care to pay attention to the tournament, many people are drawn to watch the athletes and teams to compete against each other. The NCAA tournament spans for less than four weeks every year starting in mid march and ending in early April (“NCAAM Tournament Schedule”). According to ESPN, the NCAA tournament has existed since 1939 and has an increase in views every year (Scosh). The NCAA tournament is becoming just as popular as other major sports events like …show more content…
The NCAA does not just make money off from the basketball games. The tournament comes along with television networks, commercials, marketing, gambling, tickets, and more. 81% of the NCAA’s revenue comes from the Men’s March tournament alone. Each year the NCAA makes a profit from the tournament of about nine-hundred million dollars (“Revenue”). The athletes in the tournament are attracting all the viewers who are providing the money for the NCAA. However, none of the athletes receiving income. The NCAA would not be able to sponsor other sports and events too without the tournament because there would not be as much money in the budget. Viewers of other college sports would be disappointed to say the least if their games were not being televised. In fact, the tournament has been attracting over eleven million viewers every year since 2014 and has been on an increase. With addition to people watching the games, there are commercials every few minutes. The NCAA is earning about 1.15 million dollars per every thirty second commercial because so many companies are willing to pay because of the amount viewers the tournament receives (Berr). The NCAA is earning millions of dollars every game. The tournament has a plethora of games too, which means hundreds of commercials. On the other side, none of the profits are being shared amongst the players. If the athletes in the tournament …show more content…
For example, many reformers do not believe college basketball players should not be paid because of the division 1 scholarships. Universities spend up twenty thousands to fifty thousands on scholarships for the players to attend the college (World of Sports Science). While there is always the discussion that players are receiving many things for free in college, the scholarships only conclude the players regular season schedule. For instance, only sixty-eight teams make the tournament and the players have to play more games than majority of other athletes on other teams (“NCAAM Tournament Schedule”). It is extremely hard to make it the tournament and the players have to travel more and miss more time in school. Other players on other teams do not have to deal with those issues. When teams make the march madness tournament, players are given the opportunity to travel, play more games, showcase themselves for the NBA, and win a championship with their teammates. Thurl Bailey, a former NCAA tournament champion stated, “It was bigger than a basketball game, I remember some letters we got, the effect we had on people’s lives. They’d say watching us play inspired them to achieve more, to be better people. It taught a lesson about
The University of Dayton Men’s Basketball Program. There have been many historical moments with the University of Dayton Flyers Men’s Basketball team, but Mark Weaver recalls the one that meant most to him. It took place on March 24, 1967, in Louisville’s Freedom Hall for the Final Four of the NCAA (National College Athletic Association) tournament against the highly favored North Carolina Tar Heels (Collett 228). This was the third straight NCAA tournament appearance for the Flyers, but their first ever Final Four (Collett 228). It turned out that the Flyers smashed North Carolina, seventy-six to sixty-two.
Each March, there arises some kind of brouhaha across the country or at least within the four walls of colleges across the United States. The cause is the highly regarded single-elimination tournament officially known as the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Championship, and colloquially as the March Madness. As described by Chris Suellentrop on the 6th Floor Blogs of the “New York Times” magazine, this “is the greatest sporting event of the year, and in particular, the tournament’s first weekend serves up the most entertaining four days in sports.” (Suellentrop 2011)
Those who play popular and highly competitive college sports are treated unfairly. The colleges and universities with successful sports like football and basketball receive millions of dollars in television and ad space revenues, so do the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which is the governing body of big time college sports. Many coaches are also paid over $1 million per year. Meanwhile, the players that help the colleges receive these millions of dollars are forbidden to receive any gifts or money for their athletic achievements and performances. As a solution college athletes ...
One of the top sporting events in the world is considered to be the NCAA March Madness tournament. This tournament is ranked third just behind the Super Bowl and FIFA World Cup. It’s unbelievable to think that one of the top sporting events in the world is college athletics. You have other professional sports like basketball, baseball, hockey and NASCAR, but their championships still don’t compare to the NCAA championship. March madness is so popular that global firms Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. believe that companies are expected to lose about $1.2 billion because of every hour of work that employees are watching games instead of working (Koba, 2014).
Every March college basketball fans and million alike anxiously await the start of the NCAA tournament. For a three week period from the middle of March to the beginning of April the entire country is engulfed in college basketball’s premier event. The tournament consists of 68 of the best teams in the game all competing for one title, NCAA National Champions. Colleges and Universities all across the country compete bringing students, alumni, and fans alike all carefully watching, waiting for that one bracket breaking upset or spectacular buzzer beater. It is truly the one sporting event that draws the attention of the entire nation. Although many people may argue that the NCAA tournament and March Madness is just another sporting event, it is a widely popular competition that is viewed by millions of fans and even non-sport viewers year after year.
Imagine a business that brings in $60 million each year ,and the people fueling that industry receive none of the revenue(Wieberg). These same people work 40 hours in their sport every week, these “people” are college athletes. The NCAA, the governing body for major college sports, is the industry doing this to college athletes(Edelman). This is an issue of exploitation and control by large institutions over primarily poor people, the NCAA is guiding them in directions to make money for everybody while doing everything possible to keep the players out of the money. College Athletes deserve profit because they bring in large revenue into their program, the NCAA, and they invest tons of time into their sport.
Coaching style is only one of the factors that set Coach K apart from Coach Williams. In addition, Coach K’s offense and defense coaching style is higher ranked. Duke Basketball is known year after year for its outstanding defense. Coach K says, “A winning basketball team makes the opponent react to them, whether they are on offense or defense. Our philosophy is to attack on defense. Don’t be afraid of making a mental or physical mistake on defense. The only mistake you can make it not playing hard” (Coaching Basketball). At the end of the day all defense really comes down to is effort. Which team is going to “go the extra mile” and go after the loose balls, rebounds, and consistently encourage their teammates. The Blue Devils always have those
Athletes everywhere complain and gripe about how little money they have. What they don’t realize is, it’s not just them. Most college students do not have a sufficient amount of money that they can buy whatever they want. It is outrageous that athletes believe they are entitled to accommodations because they play sports. To play a sport at the collegiate level is a privilege (Top 10 Reasons College Athletes Should Not Be Paid). Students that participate in athletics should not receive any payment because they are receiving tons of benefits, free tuition, and this would extend the talent gap.
In “College Athletes Should Not Be Paid,” a response to the previous argument that also appeared in the Baltimore Sun, former Penn State football player Warren Hartenstine argues that “College Athletes Should Not Be Paid.” Like Marx, Hartenstine is writing to a similar audience, but argues why student-athletes shouldn’t be paid above scholarships like professional athletes are.
Many people can easily picture this scene in their minds: the roaring crowds, the smell of easy- to-eat foods, and the thousands of people all dressed in the same colors. That’s a description of game day at a major college. College sports bring in a lot of money, yet their players don’t receive any money. Many people view this as something that needs to be changed while others believe that only professionals should be compensated. In the essays “Let Stars Get Paid” and “College Athletes Should Not Be Paid”, both authors give their opinions on whether or not college athletes should be paid. College athletes should not be paid because they already receive many benefits from being athletes.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, has said that the high revenue sports subsidize less profitable sports like lacrosse, soccer, and hockey (Majorol). The consensus is if universities, with vast amounts of funding, start offering a play and get paid initiative that the lesser colleges would struggle to compensate, from a declining recruiting class, and their less popular athletic programs would slowly fizzle to nonexistence. Hypothetically, as athletes recognize that they can get an education, play college sports, and also get paid like an employee they will start transitioning away from the lesser schools while creating a pool of players in the top schools. Not only would that turn out as a horrible situation for minor schools, but this also means that college sports’ would not be exiting to watch when the top four schools fight it out, in the tournament each year. Eventually, ratings and ticket sales would go down due to the loss of unpredictability in games. College athletics are only a portion of negatives that come out of paying student athletes, the athletes themselves are also in virtue of
It is reported that the NCAA makes $6 Billion annually. This is all from TV deals, advertisement, merchandise, and sponsorships. All this money because of the players and they don’t see any of it. How would you like to go work for a company make that company a million dollars and you not receive a dime of it? It just doesn’t sound right. Especially when you take into the fact that these players are putting their bodies at risk for their school. A college football player for example, his body takes so much punishment on the football field and injuries absolutely happen and he isn’t getting paid to put his body on the line. What happens to these kids’ scholarships if they suffer a career ending injury? If they were receiving some sort of compensation they can help pay their way forward to having an education if they can’t play a sport again because of an injury. These same athletes are also getting stuck with the medical bills when they get hurt. For example at the University of Maine athletes are responsible for the first $10,000 in deductibles (Emmert, Mark 2014). How is this fair they aren’t even receiving any money to pay for this
College athletes are undoubtedly some of the hardest working people in the world. Not only are they living the life of an average student, they also have a strenuous schedule with their specific sport. One of the most discussed topics in the world of college athletics is whether or not student-athletes should be paid money for playing sports. The people who disagree with the idea have some good arguments to make. Primarily that the athletes get to go to school for free for playing sports. Another argument is that if student-athletes were to get paid then it would ruin the amateurism of college sports. People who are against paying the athletes do not want to see the young people become focused on money. “Paying student-athletes would dramatically shift their focus away from where it should be - gaining knowledge and skills for life after college” (Lewis and Williams). This is very understandable because one of the biggest reasons college sports are so popular is because the athletes play for school pride and for bragging rights. They play because they enjoy the game, not because it is their job. Most people that disagree with the idea of paying the athletes fail to realize what really goes on behind the scenes. At most Universities around the country the bulk of the income the school receives is brought in through the athletic programs. In fact the football and basketball teams usually bring in enough money to completely pay for the rest of the athletic programs all together. To get a better understanding of how much has changed in the world of college sports a little history must be learned.
“The NCAA takes in about $800 million in revenue a year from the 'March Madness ' men 's basketball tournament”(Majerol). Just for a couple of months of basketball games, not including every other sport or season game, $800,000,000 is obtained. None of this money goes to the players that are playing the game and earning the money for the school and the NCAA. “The NCAA could take even a portion of the $80 million surplus and dish out the money back to the very students who directly contribute to the accumulation of such high revenue”(Wesley). With all the extra money that this not for profit organization has, they should award a stipend that will lend a hand to the students with their living
“The odds of a high school basketball player making it to the “next level” to play college basketball (DI, II, or III) is slim. In fact, only 3.4% of high school players go on to play college basketball. Taking it even further, only 1.2% of college basketball players go on to get drafted in the NBA” (Winters, 2016). There are two types of players in the game. There are the kids who play basketball because they are athletic, and all they are seeking to gain is the recognition and awards. They want to be known. Those players are self-centered, they do not play for the team, and generally don’t play because they love the game. These are the types of players who don’t usually go on to play at the next level. On the other hand, there are the players that absolutely dedicate their life to the game of basketball just because they love the game. That is what coaches are looking for in a player, and that is the kind of player I am striving to be.