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Mel Future

Public Speaking

15 November 2015

Professor Janet

Persuasive Speech: Should College Athletes Get Paid To Play?

EXCITE:

Picture this. You’re walking in an arena and there’s tens and thousands of people

crowded and your heart is pumping, beating so fast as if you’re playing the drums.

You’re the number one player in the team. The crowd loves you. The camera flashes at

your face as they scream your name and wanting to get your autograph. It’s March

Madness and the school you’re representing is generating billions of dollars. Everyone’s

counting on you to do your best, but then as you see your coach, you suddenly feel this

hatred. And you want to get paid, remembering the countless nights you spent just to

get ready for this game and the pressure to do all of the make-up work by the time you

get back from those missed classes. You suddenly feel this pain that the college is

basically taking advantage of you, by not paying you a single dime or a fair share of the

billions of profit they generate. Then, after playing that final game, you gather with a

group and start an argument against the college that what they are doing, is leading a

corrupt system.

LAUNCH:

One of the hottest debates in the sports world for the last several years is whether or not

college athletes should receive a cut of the revenue they produce for the school. College

athletes are men that are trying to get into the pros and therefore, are not paid because

they have not been scouted yet. Because these players attend small colleges and

universities, they should never be paid to play their sport.

RELATE:

There is a legitimate reason why we call this a ‘college sport’. It is a college sport because

these athletes that play in these games are students—not professionals. Just like any

field, you go to college to sharpen your skills and learn how to do your profession. Think

of the movie, The Internship starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn when they were

interning for the company, Google. College sports are no different from this. It’s like

saying that colleges should pay their college theatre major to act in the school play. In

reality, no one pays these students to set up the scenery, choreograph dances, and to

sing in a musical for three hours straight. The reason why no one pays these students is

because they are just learning in that field in order to get paid when they do get a job. In

college sports, you play to get into the National Leagues, not to earn a paycheck as a

student.

INFORM:

College athletics became a culture back in the late 1850’s when the game of bats and

balls (also known as baseball) were becoming strongly popular at Williams College. It

wasn’t until nearly a hundred years later, during the 1950’s that the NCAA decided to

give a full-ride scholarship to their players—and the ones that play the best in their

college or division will land a job to play for major teams in the National Leagues.

During these times, everyone appreciated the scholarship they had received because

they were getting just steps closer to their dreams. Getting a full-ride scholarship was a

dream come true and became an honor for many American families. Many fathers,

throughout the years, push their sons and daughters heavily in sports so they could get a

full-ride athletic scholarship for top universities such as Syracuse, Stanford, Alabama,

Ole Miss, and Texas A&M. However, as professional athletes in the National Leagues are

earning a ridiculous paycheck of more than $10-100 million dollars for a contract, and

finding that the college bowl games and the March Madness are cashing in at more than

billions of dollars a year, a new problem arises. College players—for the past several

years—are taking in action and what they want is a piece of that pie.

You see it on the news and even on Disney’s ESPN that college athletes are bashing their

colleges that they are not being treated fairly. Out of the 168 hours in a seven day week,

a college athlete spends at least 49 hours a week just on training for their next games,

goes to school for about 39 hours and at least ten hours to study a week, leaving the rest

of the 70 hours to go to sleep and socialize with their friends. Many of these athletes see

this as an unfair advantage because they aren’t getting paid for all the hard work and

sacrifices they put in, as they watch the college generate billions, while they earn a profit

of $0.

But what do you guys think? Should athletes get paid to play, so they can get the fair

share? The answer is no. College is college. You don't necessarily need to get paid to

play. Sure all ball players spend so much time training. Sure college athletes are

bringing the most revenue to their colleges during the March Madness or even those

Bowl games. However, it does not mean that they should get paid. College players do not

get paid for a reason and that is, they are not professional. If you throw a college player

against someone in the big leagues, that college player is basically going to get beat up

and run over by the big boys. Professionals, on the other hand, do have the right to get

paid because they legitimately have experience in playing for top colleges like Duke,

Kentucky, to even a small college like Davidson—where the Golden State Warriors,

Stephen Curry, came from. These athletes show that they qualify to get paid because of

their skills, championships, the accuracy their defense, offense, blocks and shots they

have earned from each game they played. “Athletic scholarships are their compensation

and a fair one at that. Essentially they receive a free education and in return they

represent the school in a certain sport” (McCauley).

What nowadays college athletes do not understand is that they are breaking a

tradition—a culture in which all their ancestors have worked hard over the years for a

full-ride to represent their school at no cost. The money that universities generates for

those games and tournaments goes to paying for all their staffs, the electricity, and for

all those buildings and the events they host. They even pay for the other full-ride

scholarship students in music and theatre and to even get the latest technology to supply

in their classrooms. To add, some colleges that are not in the PAC 12 are losing money

because their bills are so high, and just the idea of paying college players will result in a

major cut for other classroom resources and departments. The players should realize

that they are already given the chance to get one step closer to their dreams, and that is

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