Ezekiel

Ezekiel Horn

Journal

College athletes should be paid. College athletes should get paid because they bring in a lot of money during the Football and Basketball season. Without the players going out there and performing, colleges wouldn’t make as much money as they do from their athletic programs. Just the price the price of ticket sells is 1.6 billion dollars in the NCAA. The players should at least be able to get 10% because they helped lure people in with their athletic abilities.

College athletes get put into video games without their consult and still don’t get paid. Former and college players are filing lawsuits because they said that the NCAA system was unfair. The NCAA makes billions of dollars but don’t share the wealth with players. Maybe colleges should be allowed to offer more than just a scholarship to the good players.

The total Football game revenue at Alabama Crimson Tide was $36,918,963, and not one cent went to the players for them to keep. People in prison have more rights than College student athletes. Arian Foster ( the current Texans running back) says “When you're playing you are under the spotlight and have all the attention, but when the game’s over and you are back in your dorm room with no money and no food in the fridge, reality hits you, hard.” Those were the words of a former student athlete who is now in the NFL who thinks that college athletes should be paid.

Jay Bilas ( Duke University 82-86) also agrees that college athletes should be paid. He also agrees that the NCAA should listen to the student’s requests and try to work out how they should be paid. They have to give the student athletes a chance to speak out and deal with the unfair, tyrant, NCAA. The University of North Carolina did not comment specifically on the academic fraud scandal. The former Chancellor Holden Thorp says “ We are confident that the new policies and procedures now in place will ensure that nothing this will ever happen again.” In July 2013 A group of students athletes filed a lawsuit addressing whether they should get paid for being in video games.

With all said, I hope that the NCAA will pay College Athletes. The NCAA is like a manipulative bully that always gets its way. With all the lawsuits filed, hopefully the NCAA will have some compassion and pay the college athletes for the hard work they put on and off the field.

Homework I'm reading 39 Clues. So far it is about a kid named Atticcus who is kid napped and is being tranpoted form Praug to some remote place. He is eleven years old is a genius who lives in a rich family with dark secrets.

Best work: When I was in fifth grade i got to play tackle football with my football team at Qualcomm Stadium where the Chargers play. One of my team mates dad works for the Chargers and asked if we can play a half a game on the field before the Charger- Green Bay preseason game. When I got on the field i felt like I was at home. I want to be in the NFL one day so for me to play on the field at the age of 11 aaahhh man it felt great. I was on the sideline standing next to a Charger player during the star spangled banner. He was so tall compared to me. My mom took a picture of me standing next to him and he looked like a giant next to me. After we played the game we got to see the Chargers came out onto the field. Antonio Gates and mike Tolbert both came up to me and gave me some dap. It was now time for us to play the game. I had butterflies in my stomach but i was ready to play. I played defensive line and was the best at what i do on my team.BOOM first play of the game I get a tackle in the back field. The Charger players were watching us play from the sideline. I looked up and saw all the people in the stands cheering and I felt like I was in the NFL.

Mediocre work My parents redid my brother and I's room. In my room i have a queen size bed, a recliner and a 32 inch flat screen T.V. In my brothers room he has a kid size bed and a recliner chair as well. He has a flat screen that can be used as a computer. I have an x-box 360 and have madden 25. My brother plays his Nintendo Wii on his T.V / computer. My brother and i both have good size bed rooms. They are very spacious and roomy. My living room is big and has a to of space.my brother and I always wrestle and play in there. We are five years apart but we play like we are the same age.

worst work over the four day weekend i went to my friend Noah's house. We stayed up until about 3:00 playing video games on his PS3. We had a blast at noah's house. in the morning we went to the park and played a game of basketball. It was first to 40 points. The ball that we were playing with was kind of flat so i thought i wouldn't play good. I was so wet with three pointers. i made six threes in a row and i made like 13.