The College Athlete Paycheck Debate

In little than a month, the National collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) volition be kicking move out its first ever NCAA college play transfers. This accompaniment has brought up negotiation and intelligence operation headlines from all(prenominal) over the awkward. Chunks of bills leave behind be make by colleges and the NCAA, possibly to a greater extent(prenominal) then ever. According to dismount over Bayless, a journalist with ESPN, ESPN is remunerative\nabout $470 million annually for the next 12 geezerhood (Bayless N.P.), just to broadcast this impertinently college football play playoff, that is about $5.6 jillion dollars in total. In 2013 the NCAA receive $445 million in crude(a) off of college football bowl games, ESPN alone this year allow be nonrecreational more money to broadcast the college football playoffs then the NCAA made off of all of their bowl game sponsors last year. So why do college athletes meritd to wee-wee gainful, and why d o they deserve to non be paid?\nUnleash the Boosters, an article write by ESPNs abbreviate Bayless is heavily in elevate of paying college football athletes. Bayless says that colleges should stomach to bid on the players that they want, and not with just free nurture or $2,000 in using up money, just now with big contracts that will bring in a real income. He argues that this country was built on a free-market economy, supply and demand, and the best 18 year-old football players are in high demand (Bayless). Bayless talks about television networks paying billions of dollars just to televise these kids, but yet this players are acquire none of that money. Bayless says, Yet the stars of the maneuver are forced to peril their pro futures for three gratuitous years playing a violent, high-stakes game before packed stadiums seating upward of 100,000 and TV audiences of millions? Thats the biggest crime in sports. You sack tell that the writer is ply up with the NCAA and r eally wants these players to get paid something for risking their careers. So what is the NCAAs take on all of this? In September of 2013, ESPN released an art...