{"id":22364,"date":"2019-09-22T16:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=22364"},"modified":"2019-09-22T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T16:32:36","slug":"college-athletes-payment-bill-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/college-athletes-payment-bill-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"College athletes payment bill has been approved in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

College athletes to be remunerated through athletic endorsements starting 2023 has been approved; the bill has been tabled before the California state legislature that but it is not known whether the Governor will sign it into law or not.\u00a0<\/b>
\nAccording to Jasmine Harris, a professional in student-athletes, if the bill called \u201cFair Pay to Play Act,\u201d is signed into law, college athletics will be considerably altered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

College athletes will not be exploited<\/b><\/h2>\n

One of the clauses of the bill stipulates that its objective is hindering the exploitation of college athletes.<\/b>
\n\u00a0Realistically, college athletics has become a lucrative business and students are usually taken advantage of as they the least beneficiaries despite them being the primary stakeholders.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAdditionally, college athletes are not permitted to get any form of compensation based on their likeness or image.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThis industry generates huge revenues through <\/b>sponsorship deals<\/b><\/a>,\u00a0 TV distribution agreements, and ticket sales. Nevertheless, the money raised does not go back to college athletes as it caters for various needs, such as new dorms and coaches salaries, among others.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe lack of compensation of college athletes has been detrimental because less than two percent (2%) of them end up being professionals.<\/span>
\nThe bill, therefore, seeks to transform this approach by compensating college athletes for the efforts they render. For instance, they spend between thirty-two and forty-four (32-44) hours weekly practicing.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

College athletes should be compensated<\/b><\/h2>\n

The fact that college athletes usually spend nearly three (3) times of their time on athletic responsibilities as compared to their academic or student ones has been in oblivion.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThis is, however, changing because different stakeholders have been calling for college athletes to be paid for the efforts or work they inculcate.\u00a0<\/span>
\nFor instance, <\/span>Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator and a\u00a0 Democratic presidential hopeful, tweeted on September 6\u00a0 that <\/span>college athletes ought to be viewed as workers<\/span><\/a>; hence, they should be remunerated for the services rendered.<\/span>
\nOne of the reasons for college athletes not being paid for services rendered is the notion that they usually receive scholarships.\u00a0<\/span>
\nSome opponents of this idea, however, assert that a scholarship only covers books, fees, tuition, and accommodation, and this is usually not enough for college athletes.\u00a0<\/span>
\nOn the other hand, the notion of having the bill enacted until 2023 is to give the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) time to have the present bylaws adjusted.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

College athletes to be remunerated through athletic endorsements starting 2023 has been approved; the bill has been tabled before the California state legislature that but it is not known whether the Governor will sign it into law or not.\u00a0 According to Jasmine Harris, a professional in student-athletes, if the bill called \u201cFair Pay to Play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":22366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}