Rhetoric
In "Should College Athletes Be Paid?" Allen Sack argues that colleges and universities are exploiting their athletes but that they should still not get paid. A professor at the University of New Haven and a former college football player for Notre Dame, Sack has also written a book on the subject called Counterfeit Amateurism: An Athlete's Journey Through the Sixties to the Age of Academic Capitalism. The phrase "counterfeit amateurism" is a phrase Sack uses to describe the progression of college sports from a purely amateur athletic scenario to a big business. Yet athletes are rarely receiving the full benefits of their success. Sack would prefer to see a return to true amateur college sports devoid of the big media attention garnered today, but acknowledges that the current trend is towards the "sports entertainment empire," (Sack 2).
Paying athletes is unnecessary and would not necessarily help them achieve their academic goals, notes Sack. Athletes are also "already essentially paid to play" because they receive scholarships (Sack 2). According to the author, athletes should instead receive medical benefits, workers' compensation, and, most controversially, "the right to engage in the same kinds of entrepreneurial ventures that are the stock and trade of celebrity coaches,"...
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