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This 3 page paper analyzes an article about athletic academic performance and how it relates to a person who is studying for a career in physical education. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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them to school to boost the institutions revenues. This paper analyzes an article about the graduate rates of student athletes and how that relates to the career choice of a
person who is working toward a masters degree in Physical Education and Coaching. Discussion There have been a number of arguments advanced recently suggesting that student athletes should be paid,
since they are required to carry a full class load as well as playing their chosen sport an average of 20 hours per week; opponents of paying the student athletes
suggest that they fact they are already getting full-ride scholarships is more than enough (Sturgill & Chen, 2008). They are also concerned that once student athletes are paid, they are
no longer amateurs (Sturgill & Chen, 2008). Proponents of pay point out that colleges and universities receive hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars from their various teams, and
that often an institution will generate huge revenue from its sports programs, none of which goes to the teams that made the success possible (Sturgill & Chen, 2008). There are
good arguments on both sides of the issue. But the NCAA has released statistics that it purports show that students athletes, contrary to their image of dummies who are terrible
academically but are passed by their professors because the team needs them, are in fact legitimately earning degrees at almost the same rate as non-athletes (Eckard, 2010). Eckard has analyzed
the data and found that the NCAAs method of evaluating the athletes accomplishment is flawed: the organization is comparing the athletes graduation rate with all students, including part-timers, while the
athletes are full-time students (Eckard, 2010). Eckard argues that including part-timers gives a much larger sample and statistically skews the graduation rate so that it seems as though athletes are
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