Essay On Ethical Issues In College Football

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the well-being of student-athletes, ultimately equipping these student-athletes with the skills needed for success on and off the field. NCAA members work together to create a framework of rules for fair and safe competition. The NCAA was officially established in March of 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS). In late 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt assembled two White House conferences as a way to “encourage reforms’ to college football practices which had resulted in repeated injuries and deaths and “prompted many college and universities to discontinue the sport.” In the same year, 1905, 18 student-athletes and over 140 were seriously injured. As a result, over 60 higher-education institutions become members of the IAAUS. In 1910, the IAAUS took its present name, the National …show more content…
Putting lawsuits aside, the NCAA has some big issues when it comes to maintaining its member’s ethical behavior and compliancy on and off the field. Football, for example, makes a very large financial impact on a given institution. In a way, college football is a business and is treated as such. With the large financial impact to a college or university comes the pressure to succeed and at what cost to do it, is always challenging the ethics and compliance policies in place. The biggest dilemma the NCAA faces is conflict of interest between the organization and the member institutions, especially in football. How will the NCAA ensure that college sports teams comply with ethical policies and how to tackle the tendency for colleges and universities to be complacent when the sports teams are successful and by successful ultimately meaning to win but to also make a name for themselves, sell tickets and to continue to get funds from their