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Topic: Exploitation of College Athletes General Purpose: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To convince my audience that college athletes should get paid. Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Visual Aids: Rhetorical strategies: Analogy, Narrative, Imagery, Expendable/expandable: italics Attention step I. “They are required to put in long hours of hard work for next to nothing, often in hostile conditions, always under the intense scrutiny of their bosses. They are imported from faraway places, then isolated from the rest of the population and ultimately exploited for their sweat. Migrant farm workers? Child seamstresses for Kathie Lee? No, we're talking here about major college-football players.” This comes from the article, Tote That Ball, Lift That Revenue. (Wulf, 1996) II. The NCAA considers these football player as well as other college athletes to be amateurs. A. They are the workhorses for major corporations and industries. Their names are used as come-ons for large companies and their advertisements. B. Their success brings attention to the schools, which then can draw from a larger applicant pool. C. Then as a result, the student athlete receives little compensation. ** Student athletes are putting themselves at risk for physical harm and many are suffering financially. Need step I. According to the book “Unsportsmanlike Conduct” by Walter Byers, student athletes are being exploited by the NCAA, who makes 230 million dollars a year just in the past 18 seasons of football games. (Byers, 1995) A. Student athletes work for their coaches an average of 25 hours a week 1. Athletes suffer financially because they have no time to work 2. But the NCAA, Nike, Adidas, and universities make millions off these unpaid athletes. 3. NCAA’s contention is that having their education paid for compensates the athletes. a. 25 hours a week to what it costs to pay for an athlete to go to school here works out to be four dollars and twenty-five cents an hour as figured out by Coach Jon Embree.
Approximate Word count = 1178
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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