Essays on College Football

Undefeated is an inspiring movie about the football team of Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tennessee and how a special coach was able to turn their poor performance around through his transformational leadership. As a volunteer coach, Bill Courtney gave so much of himself to the team because he believed they could do much better. Not only did he build up their skills and changed their attitude for the better, but more importantly, he built their self-esteem, discipline, commitment, and character. The film takes the viewers to a journey of change in the characters from nonchalant boys who ...

Paul Marx and Warren Hartenstine present two contrasting arguments on whether college athletes should be paid or not. Marx highlights various disparities in earning between college players and their coaches and point at the need to pay college players. He argues that most of the players are blacks who come from poor socio-economic backgrounds and have not been involved actively in academic work (Marx 1). On his account, Hartenstine argues that college athletes should not be paid because eighty-five percent of student athletes graduate with various academic qualifications (Hartenstine 1). About sixty-seven percent of these graduates are professional and ...

Division I A Football Powerhouse

As the first athletics assistant at the Big Private University, am writing to you regarding the eligibility of some students who are being eyed at by our coaches and few others who are continuing students regarding their eligibility to participate in our University team as well as those who are continuing. The primary concern here is on bylaws that govern the freshmen enrollment and their academic qualifications, eligibility issues for continuing students, and involvement of agents by any player which leads to any face to face encounter or even reaching an agreement whether verbal or written. My view on ...

Introduction

For years, there has been a major debate over paying or not paying college athletes. These college athletes are making their schools millions of dollars from advertising and ticket sales, increase enrolment, and their performance creates a legacy for colleges. Some colleges are paying their coaches 5 million dollar salary. The organization responsible for managing college sports, the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) is paying its executives millions of dollars in salary. But, when it comes to paying the labour that helps the colleges and the sports association have a clear answer, they are student-athletes. Therefore, treatment of college ...

Introduction

The employment of various members of staff is a crucial role in Sports Centre Organizations. Essentially, every sports organization has to create a match between the employees, workforce and career paths, to ensure effective utilization of workforce potential as well as cost effective recruitment process. The Human Resource Management provides a clear forecast of the future needs of the sports organization to ensure it has the required human resources to implement its objectives (Chernushenko, 2001). HRM is managed and regulated by the human resource manager, and aims to maximize the productivity of any organization by optimizing the effectiveness of ...

The controversy surrounding the payment of college students is one that will continue as long as college students engage in rigorous training and generate millions of dollars for colleges and universities, but do not earn financial rewards for their services. Arguably, college athletes work just as hard as professional athletes and yet they only receive scholarships to prestigious higher educational institutions. On the other hand, professional athletes generate just about the same amount or revenue for their team and receive exorbitant fees for their services. While college football is not as lucrative as professional sports, college athletes work hard ...