Given the opportunity to examine a Research question this semester, I decided to examine something that has been controversial and discussed for years now. There is no clear yes or no answer to the question of Paying student athletes, if we should in someway compensate or keep it as it stands. This is a question that is relevant each and every year.   It is a complicated topic that has many key factors from legality, how they could be paid, do they deserve more than scholarships? The fact that there are so many possible ways you can take the argument to try to convince the audience of the solution you support. You have to cover the import factors of how and why the solution works. I am interested in this topic because I am a college student and I love sports, mostly college sports and love supporting the student athletes at my school. Having several friends who are Student Athletes and having that my dad played college football, I feel more connected to the topic than if I didn't know anyone who went on to play sports anywhere. 

To start my research, I found three sources to help me start to formulated a possible argument. The three sources are; "College Students perceptions on the payment of Intercollegiate Student Athletes" (1), "Permitting Student-Athletes to Accept Endorsement Deals: A Solution to the Financial Corruption of College Athletics Created by Unethical Sports Agents and the NCAA's Revenue-Generating Scheme."(2) And ""Compensation for the Student-Athlete: Preservation of Amateurism."(3)

The First source I found as listed above looked at how college students looked at the question at hand. It was done through a survey. It will give me a lot of data that can possibly be used in the paper. They asked 2000 students from a power conference and recorded their responses. It also presents some of the bylaws of the NCAA.  This source doesn't put there views out there it was an unbiased survey.

The major values and interest of this is the views of the public of what should be done. Asking students from a power conference makes this more creditable because they will care more about their schools' sports/ conferences sports. 

This source is a credible source because it was published in the College student journal in 2001, it lays out exactly how all the data was obtained. The only thing that could bring down the credibility of the source is the fact that it was published almost 15 years ago. The views could have changed in that time slightly but I feel like the data is still valid. 

The Second source I found and plan on possibly using goes more into the legality of compensating Student Athletes. It Presents the bylaws of the NCAA , Laws that effect agents and there behaver, laws that impact the NCAA and the Athletes. It goes into how we can solve some of these problems it then offers possible ideas of how to pay the athletes.

The main points that will be valuable for this research is the legal aspects and feasibility of possible solutions.  It will be extremely helpful in creating this paper.

The Source was published in the Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal. I feel as though this makes it a very credible article to support any claims of the legal side of the argument. It was also published in 2012 making it a very current and up to date look at the problem.

The third article that can be used for the paper goes more into the criticism of the NCAA and how they effect the overall picture and the question, it also looks at the legal side of it.  It looks into the rules of Amateurism that the NCAA puts into place.

The focal point of this source is what is Amateurism and what the NCAA defines as it. It really focuses in on the flaws of the NCAA.

This is a credible source because it was published in the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy. Its slightly older of a source. But it covers the base and main problems with the NCAA. 

I feel as though this research question is feasible and presents a question that is arguable. There are so many different view of what should be done that we can't seem to agree on anything. Also It is a question that goes against the NCAA, The NCAA being a large organization that is slow to change. The sources I have found thus far present me with plenty of different views from the unbiased survey to the sources presenting different ideas of how they could be compensated. The sources so far are making me lean toward paying athletes where when I went into it I was completely against it.  

