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Ben Hasday 10/31/11 **Informative Organizer**
 * ** Hook/Grabber: ** The players in the big market college sports should get paid for their services because the schools make so much money off their names. ||
 * ** Focusing Statement: ** College athletes should be on a pay for play basis based on the fact that they average over a hundred thousand dollars each in fair market value to their schools. ||
 * ** Essential Background information: ** The NCAA has found loop holes that get them around paying their elite athletes for playing sport and also allow for them to make hundreds of millions of dollars.The system clearly has big errors in it that need to be corrected so that they do not reoccur in other sports when they reach the mainstream popularity of basketball and football has. ||
 * ** Topic 1: ** Pay for Play || ** Subtopic: ** Coaches alone make more than professors make in their careers in one year


 * Details/Evidence/Quotes: ** One of my sources about the payoffs that the divisions get after BCS games said that coaches can make what professors net in their career in one year or less in some cases. Their services to the school do can be measured in terms bigger than sports alone (i.e. Penn States tuition has grown exponentially in the years Joe Paterno has been at the school) but this is still unacceptable.


 * Subtopic: ** Players don’t need NFL salaries but should not have to live under the poverty line at school


 * Details/Evidence/Quotes: ** "We have a model for paying players. It's called professional sports."(USA Today) Big time college sports bring in so much revenue at the ticket office, for memorabilia dealers, and in Las Vegas in the form of bets that it would seem the spirit of amateurism has already been lost.


 * Subtopic: ** Athletes come out school with debts remaining even though they made the school millions during their time there.


 * Details/Evidence/Quotes: ** Athletes live under the poverty line in school and still come out of school with some debts if they are not granted a full ride which is most athletes.There is no reason for someone who's lifestyle is directly in the control of the school to live in bad conditions when their value is over one hundred thousand dollars to the school. ||
 * ** Topic 2: ** Likenesses are abused || ** Subtopic: ** EA Sports vs. Keller

====** Details/Evidence/Quotes: ** Keller and other athletes are stuck because: “ attempts to seek assignment of these rights. .. would not be enforceable”(USAtoday) Athletes technically have signed away their rights to get money for their likeness upon entering school but they are still having what is theirs taken.====


 * Subtopic: ** Players personal information is used

====** Details/Evidence/Quotes: **"I've always been concerned about when and how the NCAA procured a right to exploit the images of student-athletes. There is nothing in the national letter-of-intent that speaks to it”(USAToday). EA sports is not legally allowed to use actual players but it is very clear that they do.====


 * Subtopic: ** Who is making the money?


 * Details/Evidence/Quotes: ** Athletes are literally not allowed to make any money off the fact that EA sports is using their likeness in their games. How does this benefit anyone but EA sports and the schools? What is the point of insuring the athletes do not get any money from video games. ||
 * ** Topic 3: ** Schools are making millions and millions of dollars || ** Subtopic: ** Where is all that money going?


 * Details/Evidence/Quotes: ** "The Big Ten will divide $34.4 million and, after all expenses are taken out, each of the 11 schools will receive about $2 million."(USA today) Schools try and divide money up evenly and spread it around the conference, which creates somewhat of a diversion and loop hole for school to use to avoid paying for play.


 * Subtopic: ** How can the NCAA say it’s trying to preserve amateurism in their sports if so much money is involved?


 * Details/Evidence/Quotes: ** Players are not amateurs anymore if there are huge sums of money riding on their performance, including bets in Las Vegas. Amateurism is not a real factor when a hundred thousand people pay to fill a stadium and watch athletes play their sports.


 * Subtopic: ** Funds could be allocated in way that benefits the players more.


 * Details/Evidence/Quotes: ** Players could have money saved in a lock box system if they never got to use it, and would receive all of it once they graduate.This would insure that players would not just waste all the money they get and even more could invest or use it right out of school. ||
 * ** Topic 4: ** Fair market values top $100,000 on average || ** Subtopic: ** What happens when players are injured?

====** Details/Evidence/Quotes: ** “There are 120 Division I schools and probably 60 different ways they are covering their medical costs,”(Insurancequotes.com) Players should not just lose their lively hood just because they have been injured playing their sport for their schools.====


 * Subtopic: ** Catastrophic injury insurance.

====** Details/Evidence/Quotes: “ **The NCAA’s "Catastrophic Injury Insurance Program" pays a lifetime maximum of $20 million for the care of an athlete injured in a single accident covered by one of these Mutual of Omaha policies.”(Insurancerates.com) This program is a good idea and it needs to be a solid fact that every player is covered by the policy.====


 * Subtopic: ** When do players see any of that value?

====** Details/Evidence/Quotes: “ **a woman rower saddled with $80,000 “because of the way her condition was diagnosed” and a football player who “learned that he still owed $1,800 in unpaid medical bills when he went to buy a car six years after his injury.”(Insurancerates.com)==== ||
 * Conclusion: ** There is enough of a case to raise a strong point for the fact that NCAA players do deserve and need compensation for their services to the school. I should be able to accurately raise this point within my project given the sources I have.