Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Research Blog #1: Topic Idea

For my research paper, I would like to explore how the NCAA and Universities treat student athletes unfairly and use them to make money without proper compensation. Student athletes face many restrictions in order to be allowed to play in college that seem unfair for the amount of time and effort they must dedicate to the sport they play. I will explore how the NCAA makes lots of money off of the athletes and how these athletes get no financial return for all the effort they must put in. The universities also use these players for advertisement as having a good sports team often increases enrollment and brings in corporate sponsorship. Student athletes deserve to be compensated more than they currently are because of the amount of revenue and free advertisement that they currently bring to schools. This paper will focus on Division 1 in particular.
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  1. Michael GoellerFebruary 15, 2015 at 1:43 PM

    As I mentioned in class, sports has been a very successful topic for many students in the past and the question of paying athletes is very topical. I have actually had a couple of students take this on, starting already two years ago:

    http://jerrydijoseph.blogspot.com/ (The first student to raise the issue, and it convinced me that the time is right. He focused on the death of amateurism).

    http://troy201.blogspot.com/ (on the concussion crisis, not just in football but also in cheerleading and other college sports, and how that forces us to examine the question of compensation for athletes)

    There are also a couple of important and compelling documentaries you ought to see, the most relevant being Schooled:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3057718/
    It is free on Amazon Prime and Netflix. It directly addresses the question of the NCAA as a monopoly and the logic of paying athletes or at least letting them form a union (which the courts have already allowed) to fight for better treatment. A very compelling film.

    League of Denial, available online:
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/
    This film shows the concussion crisis and helps us recognize that athletes are not only not being compensated but are being put in danger.

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