7A – Testing the Hypothesis, Part 1


Who: College Athletes
What: College Athletes want to get paid, but it would destroy the recruiting process
Why: Because players would only go to the university that offers the most money

The NCAA prohibits college athletes so earn money. College athletes on the other side want to be able to earn money with their sport. They bring their universities so much money, and being an athlete is like a full time job for them. But it’s just not realistic that college athletes get paid and it would destroy the fairness of recruiting. Players would only chose the university that offers them the most money. Also, not every university has enough money to pay their athletes. Programs like FSU have problems to make more money than they spend on everything in one season. They wouldn’t be able to pay their athletes big money. Programs like Alabama or Clemson that make tons of money through football would have so much money that they could offer potential recruits a lot. Those universities would always get the best recruits, and that it wouldn’t be fair anymore.


Testing the who: There are probably only the college athletes that want to get paid because the NCAA prohibits it and the universities spend a lot of money on scholarships and the programs, they wouldn’t be happy to invest even more money just because the athletes want money.

Testing the what: Not all the players could and would get paid, so some players would feel bad treated.

Testing the why: It’s also hard for a team to decide which players they should pay and which players don’t. This would lead to conflicts and unhappiness in the team.

I interviewed one of the football coaches, a player, a teacher, a tutor, and one of my friends who is very interested in college football. 
Almost all of them agreed that it would destroy the competition of recruiting. It wouldn’t count anymore who had the best resources, the best campus, or who had the most talent on the roster. The only thing that would matter would be the money. Of course teenagers would love to earn money, but it’s not worth it to destroy the recruiting just so that athletes can earn some money. 
After I explained the football player some of the reasons I talked about with the other people I interviewed, he agreed that it would be too difficult to pay athletes, even though it would be nice for him. The coach told me that they invested so much money in the last years in technology, new buildings, and ways to make the players better, and that it would be wrong to lose a player to a obviously worse program with worse resources just because they pay the player a little bit more. 

Comments

  1. Carsons ENT blogFebruary 10, 2020 at 11:39 AM

    Eric,
    Great subject and topic to test out. This is a very hot subject that has opposing opinions at every level. Personally I don't think it would be fair to the previously successful college athletes because they didn't get paid either. Compensation can be done through scholarships, experience, food, and living. The athletes are taking for granted what they are doing if they are so caught up in being paid. That would be like me wanting to get paid to study for my classes and make good grades. Great post and analyzations.

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