The National Collegiate Athletic Association

Picture this. A sold out arena of people watching game seven of the NBA National Championship game, with thousands more watching on TV. Commentators, who were star players themselves, scrutinize every wrong move made. Just one mistake can lead to victory or defeat, and that final play can come down to a young man who is only nineteen years old. Are high school athletes really ready for that type of pressure? As of 1995, a trend started where athletes entered the draft from high school, with Andrew Bynum and Monte Ellis paving the way. The very next year, the NBA commissioner made the age limit 19 or at least one year of college experience before eligibility to enter the draft. The addition of the age limit sparked debate based on mental, physical, and emotional factors. The NBA should not draft athletes directly out of high school due to mental immaturity, difficulty adjusting, and physical development.

“It tarnishes what we’re trying to do as coaches; it tarnishes the idea that kids are here to get an education.” Tad Boyle, Colorado men’s basketball head coach from USAtoday.com. With AAU tournaments and Prep Schools getting them ready for the next level, there is much young basketball talent that is considered “NBA ready” within their first year of college. College basketball players should be required to stay in college for at least three years. With all the hype surrounding them to become young superstars, some athletes and members of NBA front offices don’t realize how important two or three more years of college could be to them. The NCAA has a rule like this set on college football players, so the rule for basketball shouldn’t be any different. These extra three years could give these players more time to develop their skills, physique, and get an education,

There are rules and regulation for everything. The DMV requires certain forms of identification for your driver’s license and the IRS requires you to file your income tax in a certain way to avoid penalty. It is no different when we are talking about the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). NCAA has strict regulation on its players and its member schools that must abide by. Although NCAA regulates pretty much everything through its 427-page manual, some rules were difficult if not impossible to enforce. In the case of Oliver v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, the conflict emerges as Andy Oliver questioned NCAA’s power to regulate in the face of court.

The overarching reason for this ongoing debate for college athletes all relates to money. At 18 and 19 years old, most athletes do not have access to the amount of money they could potentially make in the NBA. Not only money, but also any sort of benefits that can be provided to them such housing, transportation or significant revenue that can improve the lives of not only themselves but their families. An article reviewing the NCAA business model and the paying of student athletes explains that:

Over the past decade, NCAA Men’s Basketball has gained an immense following; as a matter of fact, NCAA has reported record ratings in 5 of the past 10 Final Fours. College Basketball has gained what sports analyst over at ESPN, Stephen A. Smith has described as a “Cult Following”. Every year you see high school Phenom’s like: Ben Simmons (76ers - Pro), Jaylen Hands (UCLA – Collegiate), Kyrie Irving (Cavaliers - Pro), and Jahlil Okafor (76ers – Pro) attend these institutions; play a season of college basketball and then go straight to the Pro’s. So, why are these athletes attending college? Why spend 9 months at an institution playing for a team, all while not receiving compensation for your services; Risking injuries, and negative

Over 85 percent of college athletes don’t make it to the next level, either because of injuris or waiting to long to enter the draft. So out of this percent players don’t even get there degree or finish school. “Players can also get lifelong injuries that colleges may do nothing to compensate for. Some argue Division I players receive a full scholarship plus access to top facilities and resources to make them superstars. But what percentage of college athletes go on to the pros? The NBA Draft only takes 60 players a year, and there are thousands of college players who do not have the opportunity to participate” (crimson article) .So there out of school with no money and no degree, this is when that payment comes in. so these players won’t end up homeless or have to move back in with their parents.Thousands of college players that earn a scholarship working hard and getting noticed. But what if they get to college and just flat out lose their ability? Most likely to lose the scholarship and not be able to continue. But getting a payment that can go towards that and even pay for all 4 years at that

The NCAA must make a decision if it is taking advantage of capitalism to make money, and profits wasn’t being made then there would be an altercation with paying players. The NCAA acts like a cartel in its actions according to a piece from The Sport Journal. A player ready to be drafted into the NFL is already worth 495,000 dollars to the NCAA respectively. This also indicates that a player’s scholarship value is nowhere near his actual worth to the school. What makes matters worse is that the NCAA has restrictions on when a player can decide when they want to go pro. The demand for paying athletes would not be as great of a mandate if the NCAA allowed players to skip college completely. If a player wants to skip college and head straight to the NFL then their shouldn’t even be an argument, because every year there are players talented enough to go straight to the league. For example, South Carolina’s Jadeveon Clowney who was not allowed to be drafted this past year because he was only a sophomore in college. The NFL is able to use college as a training system, because participating in college adds extra talent evaluation, bypassing guesswork. The NCAA agrees with this system for players to stay in school to help reel in profits from headlines, wins, and draws. Overall, the athletes see no gain from such a meaningless restriction that serves to maintain the NCAA as a monopoly pipeline into professional

As winter comes to an end and spring approaches, so does the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) March Madness frenzy. Since it's inception in 1939 this tournament has gained increased popularity among gamblers and fans alike to become the second most popular tournament in the US after American football's Super Bowl. Every year the madness begins the second week of March and ends the first week of April. Millions of fans across the states eagerly watch as 68 teams race to win college basketball’s biggest prize. This paper will look closely at two of NCAA Division I teams, the Oklahoma University (OU) Sooners men’s, and the Texas Longhorns (TL) women’s programs. It will first break down the tournament revenue brought in to the

One day I hope to get the opportunity to work for the National College Athletic Association. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is an association made up of 1,261 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals devoted to the administration of intercollegiate athletics (NCAA.org). The purpose of the National College Athletic Association is to maintain intercollegiate athletics as an essential part of the educational program and the athlete as an essential part of the student population. The association’s purpose is to help student athletes maintain a proper balance in life. They enforce the concept of athletes putting school before anything else. Specifically within the NCAA organization, I hope to become an

The question of whether the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) should separate public and private schools into their own divisions has been a topic of discussion for years. As a product of 14 years of Catholic education, I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in athletics during my high school career. Many of the teams that we played were public school teams from small communities where athletics were almost more important than an education. Unfortunately, I have witnessed firsthand the animosity that has surfaced between public and private schools.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association also known as the NCAA is one of the most popular Athletic Associations in the entire nation that regulates over 1,281 universities, conferences, and organizations. Some of the top conferences in the NCAA are the SEC, ACC, PAC 12, and Big Ten (Tomlinson,2010.) The NCAA is a non-profit association that brings in over 871.6 million dollars in revenue a year. The NCAA also awards 89 national championships a year in football, basketball, softball, gymnastics, swim and dive, soccer, and tennis to name a few. The NCAA 's most dominant competitions are college basketball and college (American) football, and it was estimated in 2000 that 75 per cent of US colleges made profits from these sports,

The historical backdrop of college sports is the place Schools and College allows secondary school graduates to speak to their school in intercollegiate occasions like Football, Ball, golf, soccer, and so forth. The NCAA rank the 3 schools D1, D2, and D3. The NCAA is known as The National University Athletic Affiliation (NCAA) it is a non-profit organization which directs competitors of 1,281 establishments, meetings, and people. It likewise arranges the athletic projects of numerous schools and colleges in the U.S and Canada, and helps more than 450,000 undergrad competitors who contend yearly in school sports. The association is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2014, the NCAA produced very nearly a billion dollars in income

Recently in the news, there was a report on the five University of Kentucky basketball players that decided to enter the NBA draft after only their freshmen season. Sure, they were told of the millions of dollars they could make in professional sports, but were they given the odds of them even reaching that big payday? From picks 5-10 in the draft, the success rate of the player becoming a league average starter is about 30%, then for the rest of the first round, picks 11-30 have around a 10% chance (Thread:15 year Basketball Analysis). But even after given the odds, most of the players will choose to enter the draft because if they continue to play and attend college, they could hurt themselves and lose out on all the money. But what happens when the athlete doesn’t make it? Then he becomes just another person in his early 20s without a college degree, looking for a job. But what if colleges were to offer the players an added incentive to stay, promise a type of salary so the athlete could make some extra money to help with his tuition cost, maintain a social life, and stay in school to finish his degree? Because even on a full scholarship, it does not cover the entire cost, the IRS taxes the scholarship leaving the player about $3,200-$3,500 short a year. This is why paying college athletes makes sense, because it will help keep young adults in school to finish their degrees and help them financially to achieve a better future. College athletes deserve to be paid

According to Cornell ‘“One of the things that is crazy about the system as it is, is that players are risking injury and hoping to get through college unscathed to get these huge contracts,’” (“At Risk”). This is in part due to the NCAA being a training ground for the National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) due their specific age limitations. Football players cannot enter the NFL draft until after being out of high school for three years and NBA draft requires players to play one year of college basketball (Entman). This requires athletes to play at the collegiate level for a specific period of time with a greater potential of injury. If an athlete does sustain an injury, they run the risk of losing their scholarship as four-year athletic scholarships do not exist and are renewed annually (Deutsch). A college athlete can contribute to a team’s performance for years, generating revenue for the university and athletic department, sustain an injury causing him to lose his scholarship, and not be able to afford to finish his education.

From a very early age children around the country begin dreaming of playing a sport in college and eventually as a professional, but the number of them that succeed in just reaching the college stage is staggeringly miniscule. The table below reflects the probability of competing in athletics beyond high school, both college and professionally, based on estimated data. It shows how little of an opportunity student athletes have to make it into collegiate sports and collegiate athletes to make it into the professional arena.