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Nguyen BuiESL 91Mar 14th, 2014Home work for Friday, Mar 7, 2014: “Compensation for College Athletes,” Tim Ajmani.In the article “Compensation for College Athletes,” Tim Ajmani argues that college athletes should be paid for their dedications to colleges. I agree with the author’s opinion. College athletes should be compensated because they spend much of time on training and competing, they earn revenues for their colleges, and they also help their colleges to increase admission rate.College athletes often spend time on their work even more than on full-time jobs. In order to succeed in wining in college sports, athletes have to practice a lot. They not only drill at training room but also at home. In some sports, such as, football, basketball, and gymnastic, college athletes must carry out more than eight hours a day if they want to archive goals. In “College Athletes are full-time worker” on USA Today newspaper, Steve Wieberg convinces that college athletes can be considered as full-time worker. His researches show that college football players spend averagely 44.8 hours a week; more than a typical full-time worker work in the U.S. He also argues that many other kinds of sports in colleges, such as, baseball and basketball demand student to spend considerable amount of time in training. Because of college athlete’s spending time, they should get paid for their work.Another reason that college athletes should be paid is that they earn revenues for their institutions. By selling tickets for sport games, academic institutions can gain much money from their athletes’ labor. Moreover, educational institutions can receive revenues from donations, advertisements, and television’s permits. Those activities can bring huge amounts of money to colleges and universities. According to “College Athletics Revenues and Expenses” published by ESPN, a global cable and satellite television company, the revenues that the University of Alabama football team earns is about 120 million per year; UC Berkeley earns about 65 million. Those amounts of money come from student athlete’s efforts, so college athletes should be paid for their works.Last reason that college athletes should get paid is their works help school to gain higher rate in college admissions. This is easy to understand because college successes in sport bring popularities. When colleges win in sport games, they will be popular and attract more students. More students apply for admissions not only increase admission rate, it also increase quality of entering students. When number of applied students increase, colleges have chances to accept students who have higher performances. In “The Impact of College Sports Success on the Quantity and Quality of Student Applications,” Devin G. Pope and Jaren C. Pope say that successes in sport increase quality and quantity of student applications in college. Their researches show that football and basketball successes significantly increase admission rate up to 8 percent. They also argue that college with successes in sports will have higher-SAT-score students in admission. College athletes have made many contributions into the development of their schools. They help school to gain more students’ applications.With all of those reason above, college athletes should be compensated for their efforts. They work with attitude and time as any other full-time workers do. They earn much money for their schools. They also help school to get higher admission rate. They have to be paid for their works. However, they should not get too much dedication, so they can find themselves as students rather than professional athletes.Work citedDevin G. Pope and Jaren C. Pope , . "The Impact of College Sports Success on the Quantity and Quality of Student Applications."?Southern Economic Journal 2009. (2009): 752. Print."College Athletics Revenues and Expenses."?College Sports. ESPN, Web. 15 Mar 2014. <, Wieberg. "College athletes are full-time workers."USA Today, 13 Jan 2008. Web. 15 Mar 2014. <;. ................
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