The fall breeze blows leaves across the crowded parking lot. People pour towards the gates, all eager for a chance to see their alma mater stick it to a rival school. Ahead are the tall lights, triple decker stands, and the vast expanse of green and white where tonight’s entertainment will take place. Smoke from the concession stands wafts across the vast expanse of the stadium. The smell of hamburgers and hotdogs drifts through the crisp fall evening air. As always, the student section is rowdy. The band plays the fight song as the team runs out onto the field, and the 80,000+ fans packed into the stadium roar. With each touchdown, sack, and TFL (tackle for loss) the team’s faithful yell and scream with a frenzy unmatched anywhere else. This …show more content…
Cost? About $10,500 each. Is it excessive? Absolutely. Still, is it necessary to compete in today’s arms race? Absolutely. Clemson’s new Football Center doesn’t need a mini golf course. But if a 5-star recruit happens to love Putt-Putt, then it’s money well spent” (Crist). Colleges are now spending more and more on their facilities to be able to give their players the best chance at being at the top of their game. College football teams simply don’t have enough money left after the season to pay all their players. This is why athletes cannot receive pay. “the average college football head coach clocks about 100 hours per week during the season. To put this into perspective, the total number of hours in a seven-day week is 168, meaning that at 100 hours per week, the head coach uses 60 percent of his time—including sleep hours—for work. This leaves 68 precious hours for sleeping, eating, personal tasks, relationships, etc. Breaking this down a bit further: a 100-hour work week equals a full seven-day work week (no days off) with 14.28-hour work days and only 9.71 hours remaining, per day, for sleep and/or non-work related commitments” (Daughters). College football coaches spend 2.3 times more of their time on the sport. This definitely merits the amount of money that they make. They give up time with their families and friends to ensure that their players give their best performance on Saturday every week. Don’t these adults who work 2.5 time more than the average American for a SPORT deserve to be paid the large sums of money that we hear about? These people who gripe about the college kids not getting paid don’t realise that the coaches are even more committed to the sport than the players. According to espn.com, The University of Alabama collected a revenue of $123,769,841. While not all Universities make this massive amount of money, many universities make around 8