I believe that the title of a student athlete being known as an "amateur athlete" needs to be changed. Maybe there was once a time where that label made sense, but in today's world there's nothing amateur about the results of student athletes. The system needs to be altered and fixed so that student athletes can be treated fairly. Many people have similar views as me, however there are still a large amount of supporters in favor of the way things are now.
The definition of an amateur student athlete is a student first, athlete second (NCAA.org). The NCAA makes it seem like the academic part of being a student athlete is the most important, however statistics disagree. "(The median athletic spending for institutions competing in the top tier FBS) was 92,000 per athlete in 2010 while the median academic spending per full-time student was less than 14,000," (American Institutes for Research). Clearly these universities are spending the most money on what they believe to be the most important. With all the money generated by these student athletes it's of no surprise they are treated differently from all the other students. Student athletes are a separate class from students.
No comments:
Post a Comment