Should College Student Athletes Be Paid Analysis

The debate whether college student athletes should be paid or not has been going on for the past half a century, however the argument has seen virtually no change but all the different views and opinions will help shape your opinion on the topic. Student athletes give one hundred percent of their effort to the sport they play and the college they play for. The universities and the National College Athletic Association receive millions of dollars because of these players, but the ones on the field, court, or track never see an dime. College athletes are painted out in various ways depending on the articles you read and the opinions of the author. The rules of the NCAA strictly state that college student athletes are not aloud to hire an agent,

Blackistone’s article, “Paying Athletes Would Break College Sports?”, he argues how disgusted he is that universities can afford to buyout coaches contract while failing to take care of the players who make up the team in the first place, the NCAA claims that paying the athletes would ruin the way we look at sports, but last year the NCAA made twenty million more than they did the year before. The author's intended audience are fans of college sports who do not understand the system. Blackistone explains that after lots of ridicule and criticism last year during the Final four the NCAA paid travel expenses for families of the athletes out of guilt. He wants readers to understand that the NCAA has the money to pay the players, but they simply do not want to. One way to know if the source is credible or not is by checking who the author writes for. Kevin B. Blackistone is an ESPN panelist, and writes sports commentary for the post. ESPN is a highly trusted media outlet that publishes information about all things sports. Like many articles, there are some forms of biased in this one. The author directly states his opinion by saying, “ It is absolutely insulting for the people who run this enterprise to suggest after another multimillion-dollar buyout of a coach's contract that they can't take care of the athletes like the athletes take care of them”. Mr. Blackistone uses fallacies to appeal to the reader, he argues, “paying college athletes would kill

“I’ve been writing about this issue for several years now calling for college athletes to be paid the wages that they deserve and am sad to acknowledge that very little has changed since I was a college athlete at UCLA, so poor that I and most of my teammates could barely scrape by” the author makes it evident that the intended audience is the NCAA to voice his opinion. “ Our efforts earned millions of dollars for the university, both in cash and in recruiting advertisement to attract new students. But I was generally too poor to do anything but study, practice and play.” Biased is viewed throughout the article making it unreliable. “We do have hungry nights that we don’t have enough money to get food in. ... Sometimes, there’s hungry nights where I’m not able to eat, but I still gotta play up to my capabilities.” The author is attempting to make the reader feel bad for the athletes and persuade them into swaying to his side. This tactic could be very effective, it manipulates the way the reader