Colonial Athletic Association

Athletic departments without a doubt bring in the most money out of any other organization on campus. Scholarships provided to athletes from a school’s financial perspective is a steal and a way to benefit from the laborers. College athletes are not allowed to make money off their name so why is the university, which already makes millions of dollars off athletes, allowed to sell merchandise with their likeness. College athletes should be paid because NCAA athletics makes more than professional…

University, Christopher Powell, August 2014 14 established conferences, and eventually from the conferences to the NCAA in the 1910 (Smith, 1987) , the 21st saw the control of collegiate athletics shift yet again in favor of the guidance and leadership of the university presidents . The power dynamic in collegiate athletics has seen both the NCAA and u niversity presidents (i.e. univ ersities) rise in power, while the college athletes they serve are left without a representative voice. The…

Now, in the 21st century, Sports is no longer just about fun and games. Sports are considered a business and college sports are no different. College athletics are becoming more and more like the professional leagues except for one big issue, money. A new American dream of making a huge living in sports at both the collegiate and professional level is rapidly growing. NCAA has paid millions into a fund for in-need athletes to cover clothing purchases, emergency travel, and medical expenses. The…

In most cases when there is a set of rules, the rules usually end up being broken or a controversy arises through them more often than not. In the NCAA's situation, there have been instances in which problems with their rules have led to insufficient results. For example, former UCLA bas-ketball player Ed O'Bannon filed his own lawsuit against the NCAA (McEldowney 3). The law-suit he had filed was for illegally using his own and other athletes’ pictures commercially at the will of the NCAA…

In recent years there has been a debate inside college athletics that centers around the true value of college athletes and whether or not a scholarship is truly enough to keep the athletes in school and ensure they get their degrees. Many athletes in Division I sports, primarily basketball and Football Bowl Subdivision college football see college as a stepping stone to either the NFL or the NBA. The NCAA tracks the graduation rates in these sports via the GSR, or Graduation Success Rate,…

new allegations of more violations from the school’s women’s basketball and soccer teams (Parish, 2015). According to a recent report in the Chronicle of Higher Education (Willens, 2015), the NCAA is currently investigating twenty university athletic programs for academic fraud. The report cited tougher academic eligibility standards enacted by the NCAA in 2012 for the increase in academic fraud cases. While academic violations of this nature appear to be more prevalent these days,…

A very long debate in college sports is if the athletes should be paid. The author, Jared Walch, talks about both sides, but later in the article it seems he sides with the argument that they should be paid. In the beginning of the article, he talks about why the athletes shouldn’t be paid. Walch first argues that this is all a choice for the athletes. They chose to put themselves in harms way of possible injury and at that, not every athlete gets injured. Another argument that the author…

College Connection”, where he mentions how athletes receive several incentives for their participation in sport such as scholarships, room and board, and five-star facilities. Despite the fact that these athletes dedicate several hours a week to athletics, I feel that they do not deserve additional money because they chose to get involved in sports…

It is not rare that the media jumped to the coverage of this case, mainly because it involved the sports’ team of an elite university as it is Duke and because the “victim” happened to be African-American. Not only did the university’s administration and faculty rushed to turn their backs to the lacrosse team, but they also rushed to judge them. With president Richard H. Brodhead’s public statement that they were not going to support the lacrosse team in any way and then later, as a ramification…

athlete players get an income? NCAA athletes of any sport or division should be allowed to get paid. The NCAA makes an annual income of an estimate of almost one billion dollars. Many different colleges and universities make a lot of revenue from their athletic teams such as basketball, football, baseball, and etc. For many years many people have debated on whether or no these college athletes should be paid or not. With the amount of income that NCAA has been generating. Student athletes should…