Pros And Cons Of The NCAA

In the area of collegiate sports, there have been numerous heated debates about the integrity of many things concerning the NCAA and how it handles legal and ethical issues. Two well renowned scholars tackle this issue in their co-authored book entitled

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

The NCAA has been around and evolved since the beginning of college sports. This organization is a non-profitable organization, but ironically makes more than millions of profit per year. Branch states “that money comes from a combination of ticket sales, concession sales, merchandise, licensing fees, and other sources—but the great bulk of it comes from television contract”(pg. 228). Meanwhile, the student-athletes do not receive any of this money. This is the start of an unsubstantial business between universities built around amateurism.

The reason they are arguing is because, the NCAA is a multibillion dollar business. For

All in all, the NCAA hasn’t been monitoring collegiate athletic programs as close as they should. Consequently, many student athletes continue to find themselves in the middle of unethical situations within their respective programs. With numerous issues arising, it would be in the best interest of the NCAA and the U.S. Government

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, better known as the acronym NCAA, was formed in 1906 as the IAAUS, which stands for Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, then changed to its current name the NCAA in 1910. In 1973 the current three-division setup of Divisions I, II, and III was adopted by the NCAA, and they are currently governed by the NCAA president Mark Emmert. Under this new format Divisions, I and II can offer scholarships to athletes for playing sports but Divisions III may not offer any athletic scholarships. In 1983, the 75th Convention approved an expansion for woman’s athletic program services and started the push for woman’s championships program. There are 23 men, women, and coeducational sanctioned

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt called for a White House conference to review the rules of football (Crowley, 2006; Lind, 1993; Smith 2000). The previous year 18 deaths and over 100 injuries occurred which prompted the meeting between officials from the major football programs (Smith, 2000). With the same concern, Chancellor Henry MacCracken of New York University called a national meeting to discuss if football should be regulated or abolished (Crowley, 2006; Smith, 2000). Chancellor MacCracken's group formed a national rules committee which was combined with President Roosevelt's White House conference. According to Rodney K. Smith (2000), "This combined effort on the part of educators and the White House eventually led to a concerted effort to reform intercollegiate football rules, resulting in the formation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, with sixty-two original members." Eventually renamed to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, its primary purpose was to create playing rules for intercollegiate sports (Smith, 2000).

The NCAA is one of the most profitable organizations in the world due to their monopoly on major college sports. Across the country there are over one thousand colleges and universities in the NCAA separated into 3 divisions, with a total of 89 different sporting events, and a staggering four hundred thousand student athletes in the organization. The NCAA makes money in primarily one way and that’s ad revenue for the commercials played during an event. In the Men’s NCAA Basketball tournament a 30 second add cost over seven hundred thousand dollars to run. The NCAA is a big business with millions of fans, so it is surprising that so few want to hold them accountable for the damages that they cause in their “amateur athletes”. The only difference

Most of the time the decision made by the NCAA is dis-liked and undesired by most.

Over time the landscape of college sports in the United States have changed drastically. Since it was created in 1906, the format of the “IAAUS” has been drastically altered five times. Not to mention the seemingly constant realignment of teams, placing teams like Memphis in the “Big East” even though they are not located in the east. (Smith, Ronald) The people who are most affected by the atrocities preformed by the NCAA are the players. Every higher up in the NCAA, from the coaches to the president of the NCAA get paid boatloads of money. These people coaches, athletic directors, athletic trainers, everyone involved are getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars and at the big time schools millions. Everyone gets paid except for

The National College Athletic Association, better known as the NCAA has been involved in constant turmoil for quite some time now. In the college sports world, there are two variant sides by which neither can come to a final decision. Those side are for and against paying college athletes for participation. While some agree that “coaches are paid too much for players to be struggling to buy food” (Connolly), some actually seem to disagree. Agree or disagree, the athletes deserve a resolution because the longer the issue, the longer the struggle. The two side fail to realize that their arguments and discord does

One view point in this issue is the view point of the higher up people at universities and the NCAA. College athletics are fully commercialized and is also a huge money making business. The benefactors of this largely successful corporation are the

This past June marked the 40th anniversary of Title IX, a United States law stating that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. Although the wide spectrum in which Title IX covers includes many educational issues, its application to NCAA athletics has especially been confounded, because, unlike most educational institutions, athletic programs are gender-segregated by sport. In terms of intercollegiate athletics, Title IX essentially states that that all academic institutes of higher education are

The NCAA “is a member-led organization dedicated to the well-being and lifelong success of college athletes.” (NCAA, n.d.)The primary purpose of the

One question that needs to be answered first is, what is the NCAA? The NCAA or (National Collegiate Athletic Association) are the members that make the rules for college sports at most colleges and