Frank Benford College Athletes Case Study

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1. Every college athletes have put many hours of their hard work towards their respective sport but lack their integrity to achieve their degree. College athletes should stress more on their academic and intelligent capabilities than focusing on their athleticism. Athletes should not underestimate the difficulty of entering a professional league. If athletes don’t care about their classes why should they receive the benefits and financial aid? As Benford mentions on his reform, this discrepancy serves as a breach of integrity towards higher education.

I would want it to be fair for student-athletes to receive equal punishment as non-student athletes. I have noticed student-athletes would require a tutor to assist them with their homework …show more content…

It is crazy to think that a head coach could receive a bonus that much, and it’s also crazy that a head coach makes more money than a University president. I believe student-athletes should deserve some equal form of compensation. Athletes are always the one to throw their bodies into action while coaches are in the sidelines creating formations or plays. If a coach manages to lead their team to national championship and win it, they should at least give some compensation towards the athletes that work their heart out to win the championship. Frank Deford gave a good answer on the one thing he would do to fix college sports, he said, “make them honest by paying the athletes in the "revenue sports," (football and men 's basketball) and not require these paid performers to be students unless they want to.” This would simply solve the issue with giving compensation to student-athletes. It would be to stop forcing student-athletes to be students.
2. I believe sport plays an important role in society throughout each century. Everyone around the world consume sports, either they are participating in it, have a conversation about it, or spent some time watching it with their friends or family. Sports is everywhere, it appeals to many people that are influenced by it in a positive way. There are three aspects of sport I …show more content…

In 5 years, if I do begin working as manager in sport, the two elements of what I learned in this course that would affect my perspective as a manager would be giving women equal opportunity and having ethics around my work environment. My perspective changed by seeing how women aren’t given the same opportunity or same compensation as men. Learning so much from this course I found out that women must go through a lot obstacles to accomplish their goal on receiving the positon they worked so hard for. And this changed my perspective because I should give women the opportunity to become leaders and give them the same equal payment without throwing any challenge in their face or help them avoid the challenges that get in their way. As for having ethics around my work environment, I see how this changed my perspective a lot since I am someone with morals and should be a role model towards my employees as well as a great leader. My work place should be place where someone could feel safe and comfortable. This changed my perspective because, I see there has been cases where employees have to make unethical decisions to get what they want. It is not going to work in my work place and I should not want any of my employees to cut

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