College Sports

Recently I watched a video on how college athletes and teams are treated more like businesses then student athletes. Within the last couple years many schools have made more revenue on college football than any other profit organizations in the entire school. Before 2000 the Oregon Ducks were only getting a couple thousand applications a year, ever since they won the Pac 12 championship in 2000 and reached a rose bowl berth there applications have reached an all-time high nearly doubling. This is making the school millions of dollars in revenue. Including their Nike sponsorship and the revenue they are making on television, tickets, appeal etc. The school is making million dollars off of the football team. This is the case for many schools in the country. Sports are a huge part of schools revenue, the purpose of the video I watched was about how student athletes feel like there being treated more as business men and woman then student athletes. I don’t agree with it but many people wanted the students to get paid, they thought that allowing the school to make millions of dollars off of their success is not fair, that they should see some of the profit. My argument was that for most of the student athletes their paying for your education and for most schools the revenue that the sport makes goes right back into the stadium or uniforms etc. So the athletes are seeing it spent on themselves just not directly to them.