Summary and response to "Fans Must Understand that College Sports is Big Business"

      While reading the US news and world report I came across an article called  “Fans Must Understand that College Sports Is Big Business” The author and board of members of sports fans coalition, Brian Frederick, argues that college athletes should get paid. Frederick does acknowledge the fact that these students are getting a “free education”, but feels as though, that education comes with medical bills, and possibly life changing injuries. All of the hard work and time that these students are doing is just making money “that goes into the pockets of coaches, athletic directors, conference commissioners, and sports media executives” (Frederick). Frederick believes that as a society and as sports fans, we should “wake up” and let our voices be heard. We should help these college athletes and help them get paid. Lastly, Frederick believes that if we do not do something soon the “whole thing will fall apart and we all lose”.  

​Brian Frederick the author of the article “Fans Must Understand That College Sports Is Big Business”, and board member of sports fans coalition expresses his feelings in his article about the ongoing debate whether or not college athletes should get paid. Fredrick’s involvement in the board shows that he has a personal and sentimental connection with this debate, which is shown continuously through diction. He feels as though a free education is not enough to pay off the time, hard work, and injuries, at a high level training, that these college athletes endure. He is not only angered at the fact that coaches, athletic directors, etc. all get paid minus the athletes; He is ashamed at the fact of how us, the audience, are aware of what is happening , but have not done a thing about it. Frederick once again shows his anger when he states that “it’s time for all sports fans to wake up and realize that the current system benefits only the elite few who continue to perpetuate the myth of amateur athletics.” I agree with Frederick, something must be done, but we both know that this movement cannot be done single handedly.