Many people say players should be paid because they are basically employees to the University. In fact some even think that the athletes are core members of the marketing team as well as the force of a secondary inustry by hosting sporting events. After very strong seasons some Universities applications increased by over 10 percent along with SAT scores 50 points better than the average from Freshman applicants. Marc Edelman gave 21 reasons as to why the NCAA players should be paid. The typical division 1 football athlete devotes over 43 hours of work a week to his sport, 3 hours more than the traditional work week. That alone shows that players are treated as employees of the university. Student-athletes have to miss some of their classes to travel to road games, not allowing them to learn all of the material for a needed class. The NCAA produces nearly $11 billion dollars in revenue a year, more than the National Basketball League and the National Hockey League. In 40 of the 50 US states the highest paid public official at a University is a head coach for either football or basketball. The coaches of these teams are receiving millions of dollars a year to coach the athletes. The ones who are playing are receiving none. This issue needs to be looked into quickly before The NCAA is no more and athletes decide they want to be paid and play over seas a year before going into the pros, which has happened in the past a few times. The NCAA says it doesn't want to cause a Title
IX problem yet mens basketball coaches make nearly double what womens basketball coaches make and they don't have a problem with that.
Marc Edelman is an Associate Professor of Law at theCity University of New York‘s Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business, where he has published more than 25 law review “articles on sports law matters, including “A Short Treatise on Amateurism and Antitrust Law” and “The Future of Amateurism after Antitrust Scrutiny.”
Read both of Marc Edelman's articles here
http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcedelman/2014/01/30/21-reasons-why-student-athletes-are-employees-and-should-be-allowed-to-unionize/
Edelman, Marc. "21 Reasons Why Student-Athletes Are Employees And Should Be Allowed To Unionize." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2014.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/01/06/ncaa-college-athletes-should-be-paid
Edelman, Marc. "The Case for Paying College Athletes." US News. U.S.News & World Report, n.d. Web. 5 Nov. 2014.
Read both of Marc Edelman's articles here
http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcedelman/2014/01/30/21-reasons-why-student-athletes-are-employees-and-should-be-allowed-to-unionize/
Edelman, Marc. "21 Reasons Why Student-Athletes Are Employees And Should Be Allowed To Unionize." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2014.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/01/06/ncaa-college-athletes-should-be-paid
Edelman, Marc. "The Case for Paying College Athletes." US News. U.S.News & World Report, n.d. Web. 5 Nov. 2014.