Thursday, October 28, 2010

Animoto based on search questions

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What I want to know about my topic

As I choose my topic, I know some information about the college sports world, but I want to know a lot more about were all the income that come into the schools go. Have you ever wanted to learn about what really goes on with all the money that colleges make of their sports teams? Right now- my essential question is “what do the colleges do with the money that they make of all of their jerseys, ticket sales, and national championships? To find out how what I want to know I am going to have to find out some other specific details.

How much money does the college make of winning a national championship?
How much does each college make of selling jerseys yearly?
Do colleges give back to the community with the money they make off college sports teams?
How much of the college income goes to the staff of the teams?
How much do colleges make of the ticket sales of games at their stadium?

What I already know about college sports

I know that the college sports world have alot of money that comes in and out of it. There are alot of colleges and alot of college athletes. The college athletes do not get paid for playing for there school and making colleges a lot of money.  The colleges make alot of money off the primetime tv games, selling jerseys, and selling tickets to the games. If your school wins a national championship they get a lot of imcome that comes into the school. I know that these colleges are doing alot of things to make alot of money off there college sports teams. I learn alot about the college sports world from watching espn and seeing what is going on with different teams and the things that people are getting in trouble for. I learn a lot of what I know from following reporters that know a lot about college sports on ESPN.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Story behind my topic choice

The story behind the reason why I choose my topic is because I feel it is a big topic evolving in the college sports world. If the colleges are making so much money off the games being on primetime television, selling jerseys, and wining national championships. I think that these colleges should give the college athletes a little money so that there is not scandals like the one at the University of Southern California were Reggie Bush was getting benefits and that cost the university to be ineligible to go to any bowl games for the next two years. If the college students are in class and they have to always practice for their sports that they play and don’t have time to work so I think that they should get paid some money that they are making the college by wining national championships and make the college millions of dollars.