NCAA student athletes ought to be recognized as employees under the fair labor standards act.

"We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work." This quote speaks to what the PRO team advocates which is to give college athletes the payment they deserve for the work they already do. That is why my partner and I stand on the PRO side of the Resolution. Resolved: NCAA student athletes ought to be recognized as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. To Prove the resolution I offer the following 2 contentions. Contention one:Students aren't able to get jobs because of how many hours they are playing their sports. And Contention 2: Sport Scholarships are extremely competitive and very easy to lose. Contention 1: Students aren"t able to get jobs because of how many hours they are playing their sports. College athletes may not accept any form of payment Miller; Doctoral Candidate at the United States Sports Academy; 2012 [Anthony; Contemporary Sports Issues; NCAA Division Athletics: Amateurism and Exploitation; January 3, 2012] In addition to assigning a fixed amount to athletic scholarships, there are additional ways the NCAA continues to preserve the "amateur" label in collegiate sports. Although the NCAA and the schools reserve the right to use a player"s images and names for commercial purposes, no athlete may be endorsed by or receive any payment from businesses or corporations (Suggs, 2009; Murphy & Pace, 1994). Student-athletes also may not receive financial assistant in addition to their grant-in- aids or be paid for any work with private sports camps related to their sport What This is saying is that even though these student athletes are being used commercially, whether it be their name or their face and they aren"t seeing a single dime. These athletes put a lot of time weekly into their sport. [Jared,2016, "Should athletes be paid to play?", Daily Utah Cronicle, November 28 2017, http://college.usatoday.com... ] Athletes work more than most students. The NCAA has a regulation that is intended to limit training for players to 20 hours per week. Would you be surprised to learn that very few athletes reported only practicing 20 hours per week? According to an NCAA survey conducted in 2011, Division I football players averaged 43 hours a week. Baseball came in second with 42.1 hours and men"s basketball came in third with 39.2. These are in-season numbers. This means that on top of class work and homework, athletes are working a full-time job. A full time job is 35-40 hours a week. These college athletes are working on average, more than a full time job and they are receiving no payment. Contention 2: Sport Scholarships are extremely competitive and very easy to lose. The Con side most likely say something to the point of "College athletes are granted scholarships, and these take place of income and therefore they don"t need to be recognized as Employees. (By Lauren Deutsch | 09/06/2016, The Crimson White.) Deutsch 16Moreover, athletes can, and do, lose scholarships due to injury or other reasons that can affect their ability to play. Four-year athletic scholarships do not exist; instead, they are renewable annually. Thus, an athlete can contribute to his team for three years, find himself injured, and suddenly have no way to pay for his senior year of college. He, of course, will have no sort of salary to fall back on, and he likely will not have had a chance to work a part-time job or internship, due to the intense time commitments during both the season and the off-season. He is essentially out of options. In these cases, conditional scholarships are simply not an adequate substitute for a traditional paycheck. Because of this, it proves that what college athletes are currently receiving for their work is not adequate for the time and commitment they are putting in. Ultimately, the time put in for practice and games takes away about all of these athletes time they could be spending on making money and their scholarships are not even close to what they should be getting as registered Employees.