Author Archives: Kaden Riccomini

Can you imagine going to work for forty hours a week and not getting paid but making a lot of money for your employer?  College athletes do it every year across America. Advocates for these athletes have started to question if this is fair or not.  States like California have passed a bill that wouldContinue reading “Issue Series Part 2”

Since the beginning of college sports, the athletes competing have been considered to be amateurs, meaning that they are unpaid.  On top of this, the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) has set rules that prohibits the athletes to make money off of their name, image, or likeness.  Meaning that these athletes can not make moneyContinue reading “Issue Series #1”

In my last blog post, I discussed about how last October the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) voted to “start the process of modifying its rule to allow college athletes to profit from their names, images and likeness ‘in a manner consistent with the collegiate model.’”  While I was doing research for my last blogContinue reading “Money Talks”

After completing my previous post, I do not believe that athletes being paid by the universities would be a successful way to handle this issue.  As previously posted, many colleges rely on student fees to fund their athletic programs and even then, most of them aren’t making enough profit to fully fund their own programs. Continue reading “Paying Athletes Out of Whose Pocket?”

When looking at the different sides of the college-athlete getting paid or not , I have never considered the point of view of the non-athletic student.  One of the driving thoughts of this topic is that coaches and athletic directors make money off of the play of these athletes but athletes do not see aContinue reading “Should Higher College Tuition Fees Pay For Athletic Programs?”

College athletes have never been paid or been allowed to make money off of themselves for playing sports at their schools.  In the months leading up to the start of this school year, I had to fill out many forms from the school and the NCAA proving that I have never taken money from aContinue reading “To Pay or Not to Pay?”

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