Pros And Cons Of Walter Byers

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"Amateurism is not a moral issue; it is an economic camouflage for monopoly practice.” This was a quote from Walter Byers who was the first executive director of the National Colligate Athletic Association or NCAA for short. Byers helped make the NCAA the powerhouse it is today, he acknowledged the fact that it was a flawed system back in 1995 (Byers). Mr. Byers was in charge of the duel mission of keeping intercollegiate sports clean, meaning that there would be no cheating and he had the oblation of generating millions of dollars of revenue for the colleges. What he didn’t know is that today it is generating not millions, but billions. In 2010 the NCAA announced that it sold the broadcasting rights to the NCAA Division I Men’s basketball

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