Destrehan Scandal

Recently, The Mepham High School Football coach was exposed of having an affair with one of the students' mothers, but that is not even half of the story.

There are double standards with the treatment of high school football players by fans, coaches, teachers, parents and school administrators, as they tend to look away if it is a

Is that the future athletes are ruining their athletic career before they are even out of college. In 2010 The University of Waterloo was having their football team investigated for the use of sport enhancing steroids. This all came about after the Warriors wide receiver Nathan Zettler was taken into custody by Waterloo regional police for selling and taking steroids. After this devastating event the University of Waterloo's whole football team was ordered to be tested for drug use. When the Canadian Center for Ethics in sport conducted the testing found something was would sure let the whole team down. The Canadian Center of Ethics in sport found are investigating nine athletes. These nine include three positive tests, one who declined drug testing and four admissions of use. The three athletes who tested positive for Illegal performance enhancing drugs are. Nathan Zettler who was in his final year at Waterloo. Zettler's position was wide receiver and was suspended for four years. Jordan Meredith was in his second year at Waterloo and plaid linebacker. Meredith was suspended for two years. Then finally the third player of the Warriors was Joe Surgenor who played linebacker as well and was in his first year at Waterloo, he was also suspended for two years. The Canadian Center of Ethics in sports came to a decision to

In 1995, several years after he stepped down as the NCAA’s executive director of 36 years, Walter Byers published Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes. The title didn’t belie the book’s content. Among Byers’ confessions was the deception he sought in coining the well-worn phrase “student-athlete” to describe college athletes.

In the case study Appropriate Punishment Versus Political Expediency, nine African American male teenagers were severely punished for their involvement in a violent altercation at a high school football game. Some people in the local community; especially the African American population became outraged by the school board’s ruling. Other community members, including many white residents, and school board officials thought the punishment was just. This situation exposes many controversial issues occurring within the educational system. Topics such as race relations and appropriateness in student discipline were prominent. With strong political and social context associated with these subject matters, there are complexities in addressing these types of situations. In any event, educational leaders and district representatives should aim to handle matters by considering the child’s best interest. They should also use the principle of subsidiarity to deal with challenges that may arise. School executives ought to implement effective solutions

This paper explores the novel Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man’s Fight for Justice written by B. David Ridpath, who published the novel in March 2012. This novel is about how Ridpath began working in compliance in intercollegiate athletics and his struggles while trying to create a strong and effective program. Under his program, he worked to make sure that the coaches and athletes at Marshall University would follow the compliance rules, but later he learned that many coaches and athletes did not understand or want to follow the rules of the NCAA. This novel recounts the struggles that Ridpath had to endure as he attempted to educate the coaches and athletes about the rules and regulations, but it also shows that some

Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach for the Nittany Lions, was indicted on 40 counts of child molestation. As the investigation continued, it was determined that Sandusky had used his charity organization, the Second Mile, to track down and sexually abuse young boys interested in playing football. This horrendous abuse is thought to of started as early as the 1970’s, the time period Sandusky was only held responsible for acts that took place during 1994-2009. It is obvious that a very dangerous cultural element existed at Penn State. This culture of devotion, minimal blame and self-preservation. This is what seemed to drive the behavior at Penn State University, leaders, staff and the surrounding community. Good, healthy, productive behaviors cannot exist in a culture that doesn’t support them. Therefore, if you accept bad decisions, such as the ones made by the leaders at Penn State your promoting bad

Most college and secondary school athletic programs, however, virtually ignored Title IX until a series of Supreme Court decisions during the 1990s made it clear that lack of compliance left schools vulnerable to lawsuits with monetary-damage claims. Partly as a result of this threat of prosecution, educational institutions increased their efforts to comply with Title IX's athletic provisions throughout the 1990s (Anderson, Cheslock, & Ehrenberg, 2006, p. 227). These efforts persist, albeit not without continued

Since collegiate athletics have begun, there have been all kinds of cheating scandals involving the big-time college sports. College sports today are filled with preventable, scandalous acts made by college coaches and administrators. An example of this would be the case of fake “paper classes” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill. I personally believe that the NCAA should not have imposed any sanctions or allegations amongst the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for academic integrity violations, threatening to take away titles, and making athletes ineligible to compete.

It has been a month since the Canon City Tigers became sidelined for pornography usage. The public school had an extra burden on its hands because of the separation between church and state. It seems that anything not sanctioned by God is always more burdensome. With the help of the courts, the Canyon City teens did not face any charges associated with the incident. Nor did the school take any further action against the football team. Taken aback by the lack of results enforced by the school, the Jensons were pleased that they took the time to examine their actions and discipline Tim.

The NCAA makes it clear that the main purpose of the student-athletes is to get an education. This is true especially in the NCAA Division two philosophy where it states, “Promoting the academic success of its student-athletes, measured in part by an institution’s student-athletes graduating at least at the same rate as the institution’s student body” (Division II Philosophy Statement). It also states that coaches will be responsible for the actions of their student-athletes. I think this is something that the coaches and athletic staff at Binghamton forgot, because they were too wrapped up in becoming a Division 1 school that they their ethics and values in the

This report came out because the author wanted to pump up her book sales. Media outlets are frenetical reporting on the investigation because college sports is a lucrative business and people will watch/listen to their stories more, thus boosting their ratings. The NCAA is fighting to preserve their control over college athletes and keep their integrity and profits in tact. And lastly, if this story is true, the reason the coaches at Louisville did this was to attract the best players in order to win games, have higher attendance at games, and get more alumni support in grants and donations. What the players/recruits were doing at Louisville is not much different from what most college kids do, but they are being labeled as deviants because of their status as elite athletes and because they are young black males. The perspective from which you view this situation is what will determine if you think the Louisville Men’s Basketball program is deviant or

It was apparent when Brian Bosworth, an Oklahoma University football player, wore a shirt on national TV coverage of the Orange Bowl declaring “National Communists Against Athletes”, with the words looking like the NCAA logo. Although this has been a battle cry for many years, in the last five years or so, it has gained national traction and become a synonymous chant with many across the nation, who desired sweeping reform. The organization was not originally designed to execute what it carries out, and needs to change, or give way to a new governing body for intercollegiate affairs. It is a political machine, that selectively prosecutes cases, and is biased on a variety of issues. It has no clear balance or accountability partner for its actions either. It is blatant that the only acceptable course of action is a systematic change in the system, from all sides. The solutions are simple. A thorough review from the top down is necessary, and accountability needs to be found between the member schools, and the actual organization. Once a harmonious balance is struck, issues may be resolved when they are a smaller issue than when they grow, and entangle themselves into other

Perhaps the most unsettling thing about Bell v. Itawamba County School Board, regardless of the final decision in favor of Bell, is the shockingly little attention the courts gave to the allegations made in the song. However, it is fairly reasonable that the court did not address the misconduct, as it was not the action in question. Perhaps a more unsettling aspect of this case is the lack of school response to the allegations made about the coaches. Bell’s reasons for writing the song, as expressed in his testimony, were the complaints he had heard from female students at the school that they had been sexually harassed by the two coaches. Bell claimed that the reason he wrote a song rather than presenting this problem to administration was

What are some drawbacks and risks to a broad generic business strategy? To a focused strategy?