In a capitalistic America, it’s remarkable for a multi-billion dollar corporation to find a way to deprive its workers of monetary compensation. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), birthed in the early twentieth century to organize collegiate level athletic competitions, mastered this method to maximize annual revenue. Archaic rules and regulations are the root of the problem. For the past hundred years, the NCAA claimed that student athletes were just that, students, and when controversy swells, the NCAA instinctively states that collegiate athletes are amateurs, and they should not profit from their performance (Siebold). A century ago, these rules seemed adequate, but extreme revisions are now needed. Moreover, issues such as bribed and impoverished athletes arise from the lack of …show more content…
The argument is often made that as a student athlete, an individual’s main focus is graduating. Fifty-nine percent of respondents to a poll agreed that athletics is just an extracurricular, and should be treated as one, meaning that athletics coincides with an education and players should not be rewarded for participating. Furthermore, people claim that it is impossible to pay each athlete fairly, and that implementing a new system is difficult and problematic. Questions such as “How do you decide who earns what?” and “What if smaller colleges can’t afford to pay each athlete?” frequently emerge. Also, some mention that reforming the NCAA system and revising rules may cause a period of confusion or even a lengthy hiatus in collegiate athletics. They affirm that the current system is the refined product of years of improvement, and drastically changing the system will result in an exhaustive reorganization (Peebles). In contrast to these points, paying athletes grants the ability to resolve issues such as illegal offerings and