Josh Leafer's Bio

- I Have played most of the main sports; basketball, baseball, soccer, and football
-I currently play soccer and do track
- My position in soccer is playing midfield and I throw a javelin for track. My high school soccer team went 14-2-2 while my club came in second in the league. The track team is projected to get a TVL title and a state run this year.
- My favorite athlete is Gareth Bale who plays for Real Madrid, a professional soccer club in Spain
- One of the best sports quotes I ever heard was from the legendary NFL manger, Vince Lombardi, '" If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"'





Monday, March 23, 2015

BP #7

 In  Trevor Martin, Jonathan Paley, and Ross Finkel's  documentary Schooled: The Price of College Sports(2013), they persuaded their audience that the NCAA is causing college athletes to not get the education that they are paying for and going to school for, and also that these athletes should be getting paid. The producers first convinced the viewers of the film by using analogies to show the wrongdoings of the NCAA and how they are cheating college athletes out of the degree they are going to school for.
Martin's and his crew then go on by explaining how the NCAA is exploiting athletes and not paying them for all the hard work because their collegiate sport is more of a job the a hobby. They then conclude with the story of Devon Ramsay and how is a victim of the NCAA and not a convict who was forced out of football because of a revision on an essay that he completed. Martin, Paley, and Finkel's purpose was to expose the NCAA in order to give back to all of the students who were wronged by the NCAA. They seemed to have a remarkable audience because they were able to uncover the truth about the NCAA to warn and open the eyes of many on how college athletes are suffering from how the NCAA is ran.






NFL Texans running back, Arian Foster agrees to the claims this film makes
 In the documentary, Schooled: The Price of College Sports the film unravels the truth about how the NCAA organization really works. You are able to comprehend the difference of how college sports work now than how the used to be with all of the information that is perceived throughout this film. You soon learn that when division one schools say, "Education comes before sports" is a complete lie. The producers go on to show us that schools are letting athletes take paper classes causing them to not get a full understanding of what they are supposed to be learning. The film goes on to talk about how students are also receiving degrees that they didn't earn. They may be receiving degrees, but they have no idea how to apply them in the real world. Since only a small percentage of collegiate athletes make it to the professional leagues, they don't have any experience in their major they went to college for. Lastly, this film shows its audience how athletes should be getting paid because of all the hard work that they have to do in order to play on a college team. College sports are more like a job than the competitive sport that they are supposed to be.

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