Issues In The World Of College Sports Essay

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Today, there are numerous problems and issues that haunt the world of college sports. Throughout the history of sanctioned college sports, there have been many situations in which the NCAA or other governing bodies have had to change their rules to aid in rectifying these situations. However, the forefathers of the NCAA and college sports never could have imagined what the state of college sports would be like today. All problems that the NCAA is currently facing, can in certain manors be tied together to form a few larger issues within the world of college sports. When these problems can be rectified, then the world of college sports can be reformed into its proud former state. The largest problem in sports today has to do solely with …show more content…

The opinion of certain individuals revolves around the argument that the NCAA is considered a “cartel that attempts to produce rents, both by limiting payments for inputs such as player compensation and by limiting output” (p. 210). With the profits that these colleges/universities and the NCAA are making on major college sports such as football and basketball, how could they not afford to compensate these student-athletes? Others would argue, which most tend to agree with, that the free college education that most of these student-athletes are receiving is enough of a payment. However, with the seeming unwillingness of the NCAA to modify or change rules entirely, why do they pay these student-athletes? Certain rules such as the “one year rule”, the unwillingness of the NCAA to issue their “death penalty” to a college/university who are repeat offenders, and their apparent “soft” investigations of violations, etc. they should give up, pay these student-athletes, and turn themselves into a professional sports organization. However, this will continue to be a problem in college sports until the day when the NCAA decides to finally amend its

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