National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Case Study

The National Collegiate Athletic Association or whats more commonly referred to as the NCAA, they are the governing body in charge of regulating the athletes of the 1,117 institutions that fall under their control (NCAA.com). They are a nonprofit organization that in the 2016-2017 fiscal year had $1.06 billion in revenue. The NCAA has for years taken a strong stand that providing college athletes with anything more then an education is against what college athletics is about. However many former athletes and even the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ague that college athletes are being exploited to profit the the schools they play for and the NCAA directly and have got to court to settle it. In January of 2014 the players of the Northwestern university football team presented the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with almost all of the teams union cards. The Northwestern football player on athletic scholarship were trying to file petition with the NLRB to organize a union. Kain Colter, the teams starting quarterback and team captain believed it was important to

This is well below the IRS’s 130 hours a month required to be classified as a full-time athlete. There is a debate that college athletes well exceed the 20 hour rule of countable athletically related activities. In a 2011 business insider released two NCAA “Student athlete self-report survey”, where college athletes reported that they participate in at least 30 hours a week on average, with baseball and football reporting the have weekly practice commitments of more than 40 hours. This follows a previous separate 2006 survey which also found that college athletes spent on average 45 hours a week participating in countable athletically related