“Lets go wild cats lets go wild cats “ It can be heard at any Uk basketball game. The crowd going into a frenzy to cheer on their student athletes but what do these athletes really get for there hard work. I’ll tell you what they get they get nothing and its not right, all student athletes are prohibited from receiving any payment for their efforts. Exploited athletes generate millions of dollars for their schools, and never see a dime. Is this fair? No but society’s view is the athletes are already privligged enough, All I have to say is when was the last time 80,000 people came out to see a kid take a math test and pay for the tickets? College sports are big business. Every single day, universities succeed in duping the general public into believing that the pure spirit of amateur athletics serves as the main purpose for their respective universities desire to field a good team. However, in reality the common motivation for these universities is nothing other that the almighty dollar. For many universities, the athletic program serves as a cash-generating machine. In terms of profit, if all ties with the university were eliminated, an athletic program acting as its own separate entity could compete with some fortune 500 companies. So, why do the vital slaves of the machine, the players, fail to receive any compensation for their performance? Certainly, a house is cared for and maintained, the owner continually spending money to keep it up. The answer lies in the money-hungry universities and their practice of keeping all the revenue. Many student-athletes are actually business people, just like students attending business schools and graduate schools. They are many times attending universities because it is a stepping stone en route to a career as a professional athlete, just like an accounting major is studying in order to be recruited by an accounting firm. The lifestyle of a student-athlete is quite differ...
