The beginning of fall season, every Saturday, every fan looks forward to the biggest and widely watched sport in the United States, college football. College football has been known to be better than watching NFL football. Fans eagerly anticipate when they see their team get to be a part of the Bowl Championship Series. The BCS consist of four games based on the division of the college football team and one game for the National Championship game. Due to the fact that college football players perform well because of their love for the sport, the BCS is an unfair system that doesn’t acknowledge all college football teams. The Bowl Championship Series is a complex, controversy ranked system that should be replaced with a playoff system, leaving it to be, the only fair way to determine how and who should hold National Champion title.
The first collegiate football game was on November 6, 1869 in New Jersey. It was against Rutgers University versus Princeton where the Rutgers won 6-4 (Ours). Under a team of twenty-five men, they were playing under the rules of rugby and soccer adopted from London Football Association and amended to their own sport. With the twenty-three men, they were then divided eleven and twelve. Eleven of the men were the defenders and the rest of the twelve men played offense. Lastly, the other two stood at the opponent’s field play two positions, to defend and also score. From there, it slowly started to spread across the east coast first around 1875 and the players on the field decreased to fifteen (Ours). By the end this, the National College Athletic Association was formed around the 1990s (Ours).
In 1998, the Bowl Championship Series was created for the top two BCS college teams against one another in a N...
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...e football teams, to replace the Bowl Championship games with a playoff system, as like NFL. To take into consideration of the fact that having a playoff system would triple the amount of money from BCS. In both ways, everyone wins. As for college football players and fans, they only want one champion winner that have been decided from the work they put in on the field. Hopefully after the final season of the BCS era after fifteen years, with the new system of playoffs will give an evenly matched balance for all the college football teams and they will be no more discrimination. Instead of have five winners, having one college football team based on their ranking and records, and how well they play on the field, is what I call a Champion. As a college student, fan, football player, and a dedicated fan of the game, having one champion is like winning a Super Bowl.
The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL was founded in 1920s and ever since then has been a representative of the "All-American, Family Entertainment, Sport". Football is played from kids starting at age five to adulthood and is very popular throughout different races and social classes. With the increase of people playing football, came the increase of the sports related injuries.
To better understand the original question put forth, we must first define a few key terms. The NCAA is the National Collegiate Athletics Association. The NCAA has the final ruling in all matters of conduct in college sports. In short, it controls almost every aspect of athletics in college sports. The word sanction means: to penalize, especially by way of discipline. When the NCAA puts sanctions on a program, they do one of many things, such as, take away scholarships, take away championships, or just make the school’s program shut down all together. When a program is shut down all together, it is called the “Death Penalty”. In many instances in today’s time, the “Death Penalty” just forces teams to not play in bowl games, but in 1986, it was a different story, it meant two whole seasons forfeited by one of the best teams in college football.
Flag football was created in 1933, and was played by many military officers by the 1940s. The soldiers could not play tackle football due to the risk of injure. The officers needed to be uninjured for battles. When the officers went back home to their families they brought flag football home with them. Early leagues began in the 1960s and the first flag football association was formed. The National Touch Football League changed the rules to touching being the way to “tackle” a player instead of the grabbing the flag. Flag football infiltrated colleges and championships started to be held by various universities. Flag football went pro in 1997 and the Professional Flag Football League, Inc. was formed.
The overall culture and importance that American society places on college sports is susceptible to debate and criticism. Are we spending too much time and money on college football? Well that’s for you to decide, “Get football out of our universities” by Steven Salzberg expresses his concern that we are emphasizing too much on football and not enough on education. He makes his argument that America would be much smarter if only we would eliminate college football all together; he feels college football is driving academia to its death. Steven is effective in persuading his readers by utilizing rhetorical strategies and he provides his readers with facts and solutions. While reading Stevens article, you will see rhetoric used throughout his essay; he intends to open the reader’s eyes to the epidemic that football is having on our colleges and universities and provides viable solutions.
The best college football rivalries intrigue us to a point that we are on the edge of our seats for the entire game, but many people do not know exactly what makes these games so unique. Many rivalries are based off of supremacy in a certain state or in a region. Factors such as trash talking, championship contention, or recruiting implications can play into these games that appear on the schedule every year. There are games in which private schools battle it out against public schools to prove that they have earned the right to go against the public school on the gridiron year in and year out. Sometimes teams play to simply win an oversized, metal stick to keep all year. All of these can contribute to the fans paying their money or tuning in to watch these games in which history is renewed and there is a chance for more history to be made.
Over the past 20 years, there has been a major increase in the popularity of college athletes. From 1989 to 2004, there was a 27% increase in ticket revenue (Brown). Despite the rigorous schedules the athletes had, they are still considered just a student. The NCAA cannot continue to allow these schools to work the athletes as much as they do without giving the athletes what they deserve. This is a horrible oppressive system that must be fixed.
Do you think picking your 4 favorite types candy is hard? Wouldn’t it be easier if you where able to chose your favorite 8 types of candy? Well right now it is like that with college football playoff system. During the BCS era they had one game between the 2nd and 3rd ranked teams and the winner would play the number 1 ranked team for the national championship. All the brad new FBS does is add one more game therefore only adding one more team, so instead of just adding one more team to the mix, this is still unfair. What they should add 5 teams to the 3 team mix to make the system fair. The recently removed BCS only allowed the top 3 teams to compete for a national championship but the new FBS is allowing 4 however, this is still a problem. These really affect small schools because “Undefeated mid-major schools and one-loss teams from major conferences still likely to miss the playoffs” (Douglas). The national championship is the championship of all college sports in every sport, and every year every college team in and a few out of the nation tries to compete for the national title. However some undefeated schools due to “easy schedules” do not get the same chance as one or two loss big schools that have slightly tougher schedules. In the NCAA basketball tournament “March Madness” over 60 teams get to play and compete for the national championship and they play multiple games every day so there should be no reason for football to not be able to have at least 8 teams instead of just 4. The NCAA college football playoffs should allow 8 teams to compete for the national championship instead of 4 because: It gives more teams a chance to compete, it makes more money for the schools, and it gets players more NFL attention and will get...
The debate on whether college athletes should be paid to play is a sensitive controversy, with strong support on both sides. College athletics have been around for a long time and always been worth a good amount of money. This billion dollar industry continues to grow in popularity and net worth, while they continue to see more and more money come in. The student-athletes who they are making the money off of see absolutely none of this income. It is time that the student-athletes start to see some of this income he or she may by helping bring the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There are many people who do not think this is in the best interest of the student-athletes or Universities, but that being said there are also many people who are in favor of the change.
Next, on November 12, 1892 came the first professional level game played between the Allegheny Athletic Association and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. Finally, in 1920, the American Professional Football Association became the country’s first organized football league. Back then, the game resembled rugby more than the current game of football. Over time, the rules have been constantly changing in order to boost the excitement level and increase the game’s safety. The first of safety rules came in 1938 when they established roughing the passer, which prevented the defense from hitting the passer after he threw the ball. This was directly to protect the quarterback. Next, in 1943, helmets became mandatory for all players on the field. This was the first step to helping protect the wellness of the players’ heads, even though they were unaware of the seriousness of hits to the head and any long term
I believe that college sports should be considered a profession. Athletes deserve to be paid for their work. College athletics are a critical part of America’s culture and economy. At the present time, student-athletes are considered amateurs. College is a stepping-stone to the professional leagues. The NCAA is exploiting the student- athlete. Big-time schools are running a national entertainment business that controls the compensation rate of the players like a monopoly (Byers 1).
The NCAA is a global, and well-known company that regulates collegiate sports with thousands of universities across the country. The NCAA organizational assessment shows its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats relative to all competitors. In this current market environment, I assessed and prioritize what strengths and weaknesses were most important and which strengths have to continue to grow and what weaknesses needed to be mitigated. It is tough for the NCAA to have great competition due to the fact that it is far beyond any competitions and doesn’t seem to show any sign of slowing down soon. Issues, whether political or ethical, or whatever the case may be, as long as the NCAA continues to analyze its “SWOT” then they will always be the leader in the current market
Abstract: Collegiate athletes participating in the two revenue sports (football, men's basketball) sacrifice their time, education, and risk physical harm for their respected programs. The players are controlled by a governing body (NCAA) that dictates when they can show up to work, and when they cannot show up for work. They are restricted from making any substantial financial gains outside of their sports arena. These athletes receive no compensation for their efforts, while others prosper from their abilities. The athletes participating in the two revenue sports of college athletics, football and men's basketball should be compensated for their time, dedication, and work put forth in their respected sports.
As media exposure grew over the years there were a number of Universities that were against the NCAA controlling the television market. Schools felt that the NCAA limited their exposure, and strained the potential possibilities of other revenue streams synthesized with broadcasting. This led to sixty-one schools forming the College Football Association (CFA) in 1976. Members under the NCAA TV guidelines threatened to abscond from the NCAA; and battled the National Collegiate Athletic Association in court for the right to sell their own games for display. In 1984 the supreme-court ruled in favor of the CFA, and athletic events were solely the property of the schools. Although the NCAA lost their privilege to sell college games, they still had owned the rights to men’s Division 1 Basketball tournament, and formed a partnership with CBS in 1995. College football was growing at a rapid pace and fans were growing by the thousands. Soon the television market began to grow, which led to the decline of the print, and radio
Games similar to soccer were played in China as early as 400 BC. In about 200 AD the Romans played a game in which two teams tried to score by advancing a ball across a line on the field. The Romans passed the ball to one another but they never kicked it. London children in about 1100 played a form of soccer in the streets. During the 1800’s the people of England played a game similar to soccer. Many rules changed and each person interpreted the rules differently. In 1848 a group of school representatives met at Trinity College in Cambridge and drew up the first of soccer rules. In 1863 English soccer clubs founded the Football Association. By the late 1800’s soccer began to spread to the rest of the world. The Canadian Soccer Association was established in 1912 while the United States Soccer Federation was set up in 1913.
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