Student Athletes: The NCAA Mission

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The NCAA mission is to promote student athlete success in both classroom and competition play (Southall 2015). Athletes represents a small percentage of students who earn full scholarship money (Southall 2015). They spend around 2.7 billion dollars per student athlete a year (Southall 2015). Most of these school pay for everything, but for some division two schools (Southall 2015). These schools only pay for part of a student's tuition for school, because some feel like that athletics should not be applied to the classroom setting (Southall 2015). Schools around the country generate over 6 billion dollar of revenue (Southall 2015). Southhall discuss, “These NCAA institutions make this imbalanced investment because they are not pursuing intercollegiate

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