Summary and Response - Blog

          I recently read a blog article that dealt with the topic on whether or not college should be paid. Written by Michael Gonchar, it was titled "Should College Athletes be Paid?" and he opened up with the fact that college football is a business that rakes in billions of dollars, while the coaches are the ones who get paid are receiving large amounts of money on their salaries the players get nothing for what they do. The reason why college athletes receive nothing is because the NCAA has rules that doesn't allow them to earn compensation. Gonchar's point is that with coaches, the schools, and the NCAA enterprise making billions is it really fair for the athletes, the ones who actually generate the billions of dollars in revenue, to be left with nothing in return. Gonchar then leaves off with the question if college athletes should be paid and adds some outside source to back up his argument explaining how the college teams that make to the football bowl events get gifts for making it there. The electronic gifts are the popular ones which can range from iPad Minis to Apple Tvs, all this to show for all the hard work the players have done to get to where they are.

          In this blog I believe Gonchar should've talked more on the issue. He made his point but didn't go further into things that should be done about college athletes being paid. I would've liked to see more on his thoughts and solutions that could resolve the problems that occur. What I did like is how he used some external background knowledge about college athletes receiving some sort of compensation for the hard work they put in, without the use of being paid in cash. I liked how he asked rhetorical questions for the readers which allows them to think about how they feel on this topic. With Gonchar's rhetorical questions it helped me identify his opinion on the topic. Knowing that coaches make the money and the players getting zero compensation he starts to wonder how fair can that be. However, it is not enough to make it a reliable source of for a paper because this source is mainly the external source. I wanted to see more about what he thought with his own knowledge about what is going on and any evidence to back up with what he has to say. If he could include more content on his thoughts then it could be a reliable to source to help write an essay.