This piece of static visual rhetoric is a chart showing the
difference in the amount of money in the salary of a head football coach vs.
the total amount of scholarship money for that team, revenue from NCAA March
Madness (3 weeks) vs. NBA annual revenue (6 months), and salary of college
basketball coach vs. salary of same coach when he was in NBA as a president and
head coach. The amount of money immediately stands out and you have to look
closer to see what they money figures actually represent. The purpose of this image is to show just how
much is involved with collegiate sports and to show that there is a good reason
to pay college athletes. If college athletes in the NCAA March Madness
tournament bring in $770 million in a three week time span and professional
athletes in the NBA bring in $930 million in an entire 6 month season, don’t
you think they deserved to be paid? This also show how much these college athletes are being
exploited. They are doing all the hard work yet coaches and universities are the one's benefiting by making millions off of them.
I agree that if the athletes are the one doing all the work to bring in this much money then should be able to profit from at it at least a little bit. And this image does a very good job with illustrating that point, especially with the big, bold letter of the money amounts.
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