“College football’s best trick play is its pretense that it has nothing to do with money, that it’s simply an extension of the university’s mission to educate its students.”(Sports and play, 85). So why is it that colleges & the NCAA think that it’s right to market sporting events for personal gain and not pay the athletes that train so hard and just use them for revenue? Most college athletes don’t have money for their uses at college so any items or personal necessities they need would have to come out of pocket from cash they don’t have. What about the students that didn’t get full ride scholarships or the walk-ons of the team that pay for schooling, how can they keep up payments to colleges with being on a team. There are many college athletes, some superstars that are able to become NFL players, but what about the ones that don’t make and have nothing but a piece of paper? College football is one of the biggest revenues for colleges every year. They market everything from the spring season practices/ games all the way to the national championship, not including any publicity they get. Back in 2007 all the big time schools made over $70million dollars, for instance, the university of Alabama made $72 million, …show more content…
So how can the NCAA justify the millions of dollars being exploited from these athletes with high statistics such as these previous ones, and not paying the athletes as “almost employees” of the sport yet NCAA’s president Mark Emmett explains “then you have something very different from collegiate athletes.”(ESPN web) There