Should the Ncaa Pay Student Athletes Anonnated Bibliography

Matthias Maynard

Ms. Emil Smith

Composition 1

29 January, 2017

Student Athletes on NCAA Payroll

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit organization that controls over 400,000 athletes in more than 1,000 institutions. The NCAA values itself on being an organization for the student athlete well-being, but there has been some concerns regarding their core value. These concerns are a result of the NCAA’s primary source of revenue being through its student athletes. These revenues stem from various sources such as: TV contracts worth billions of dollars, jersey sales, brand name contracts, the use of college athletes’ names, likenesses and images without their permission in video games, posters and other types of memorabilia. The student athletes do not receive compensation from any of these sources. Some argue that they receive these profits in an indirect form of compensation, such as scholarships and new sports facilities for their respective schools. Also, some argue that the revenues would vary depending on the sport the student plays, or the school they play for. It would be unfair to pay a football player more than a baseball player, or a student athlete that goes to a more popular school. One college sport that brings in a lot of money for the NCAA, and is in the middle of this controversy is men’s basketball. For this reason this research will solely focus on the NCAA division I men’s basketball on the issue of, should student athletes get paid?

Baysinger, Tim. "College Athletes' Fight For Pay Finally Targets Tv Networks." Broadcasting & Cable 144.37 (2014): 4. OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson). Web. 29 Jan. 2017.

The article “College athletes fight for pay finally targets TV networks” is about how the controversial issue of student athletes getting paid has progressed to lawsuits against the biggest winners of exploiting the student athletes, which are TV networks. The lawsuit the article talks about is against ESPN, FOX, NBC, CBS, and ABC, for “conspiring with each other and the NCAA to exploit rules that allows them to use college athlete names, likenesses, and images without their permission”. The article also talks about a previous lawsuit that was filed by a former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon against the NCAA for violating antitrust law “by restraining athletes from licensing their names in game telecast and videogames” that ruled in favor of O’Bannon,  and his lawsuit helped this issue gain popularity. This article also describes the big difference in compensation from TV contracts in professional sports and college sports. Professional basketball players in the NBA are entitled to half of what the league makes off of TV contracts, while the NCAA takes all of the revenues and distributes them to different conferences or individual schools.

This article is applicable to the topic in multiple ways. It covers how the first lawsuit against the NCAA and the issue of student athlete’s compensations came from a former NCAA college basketball player, which is the sport that is covered in this paper. It also tells us that the NCAA has big contracts with some of the biggest most popular TV networks, and this issue will also be discussed throughout this research paper. This is a credible source as it was found through the search engine of the USF library system and it is a peer reviewed article. This article was also written by Tim Baysinger who is now a writer for Reuters, and previously worked for ad week.

Hoover, John. "Pay to play: Full OU transcripts." Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) 2013: General OneFile. Web. 29 Jan. 2017.

The Article “Pay to play” is about how different college athletes from different sports feel about the question of should student athletes get paid? One student is a football player from Tulsa, and he describes how bigger schools would be compensated way more than a smaller school like Tulsa would. He also states that it wouldn’t be fair to other sports that aren’t as popular as football or basketball, because other sports put in the same amount of work. A volleyball player was also interviewed on the same topic. She goes into details about how student athletes can’t get jobs because of how their schedule is based around the sport they play as she states “As a student athlete, it's hard to find a job that's flexible with your classes, but then trying to find a part-time job that is flexible with your classes and your schedule and we travel you have to find someone that wants to work with you.”

This article is relevant to the topic in various ways. It talks about the different arguments that arise from the issue of should student athletes get paid. It shows that there are people that are opposed to this idea of student athletes getting paid because of the unfairness it would have with students that attend bigger schools, and students that play more popular sports, which is an area that will be covered in this topic. It also has arguments about how students are already getting compensated with scholarships, housing, and new sports facilities, which is also an argument in this topic. This is a credible source as it was found through the search engine of the USF library system and it is a peer reviewed article. The author of this article is a sports columnist for Tulsa world sports. He’s also covered the Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, and was a writer for Oklahoma University where he was named National Beat Writer of 2011 by the associated press.

Mitchell, Horace, and Marc Edelman. "Should College Student-Athletes Be Paid?." U.S. News Digital Weekly 5.52 (2013): 17. Academic Search Alumni Edition. Web. 5 Feb. 2017.

The article “Should Student-Athletes Be Paid” gives two different viewpoints on the matter of, if the NCAA should start compensating student athletes. The first argument is about how they shouldn’t be compensated, because of the fact that not all Universities have a profitable athletics program, and that some schools are even operating at a loss. It also argues that for student athletes playing a sport in college is the way to a higher education, and that it will not leave them with the burden of being in debt from student loans unlike many other students. The second argument is that student athletes should be compensated because “the college sports industry generates 11 billon dollars”. It also argues that “The argument in favor of allowing colleges to pay their student-athletes comes down to economic efficiency” and that “the argument against allowing pay to student-athletes arises mainly from greed and self-interest” to show you that the issue at hand could be about ethics, morals, and greed.