Executive Summary for Individual Paper
In my individual paper I covered material pertaining to one of the hottest topics in college athletics, whether or no student-athletes should receive compensation other than scholarship money. My thesis for the paper is that because collegiate sports have become big businesses, student-athletes should receive compensation other than scholarship money. To help support my thesis statement I laid out three clear arguments. My first argument is that athletic departments are making millions off their student-athletes. Through my research I explained how athletic departments exploit their student-athletes in order to make millions of dollars. My second argument is that athletes should not receive compensation that is based on their performance on the field; rather it should be a uniform across the board compensation. In this argument I laid out a comprehensive plan that would call for an across the board pay system for NCAA student-athletes. I also used this argument for the main component for my pod cast (http://buckeyemgr21.wordpress.com/). My third and final argument is that through my plan for paying student-athletes that they should receive “bonuses or fines” to help them make the right decisions. This argument would give the universities an upper-hand to make sure their student-athletes are model citizens. Also in my paper I included counterarguments for my arguments. One of the counter arguments that I put in my paper was brought up by Thomas O’Toole of the USA Today. O’Toole argues that paying student-athletes would infringe upon the amateur rules of the NCAA. Another counterargument was by former Ohio State University athletic director Andy Geiger(https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/5920 ), in which he feels that universities across the country would be unable to find enough money to pay for their student-athletes. Both of these counterarguments are legitimate claims why not to pay student-athletes, however, I made counterarguments to the arguments of O’Toole and Geiger to support my original arguments.
