In the Sandusky’s Scandal, the future of Penn State sports rolled into a sudden traumatic aftermath. The child sex-abuse charges affected the stakeholders who had an interest in the company. These internal stakeholders consisted of employees, the manager, and the owners of the organization. The external stakeholders in the organization which was also affected were suppliers, society, government, creditors, shareholders, students, and customers. The internal stakeholders are the primary stakeholders. They were affected by the economic transactions with the company and the people. The external stakeholders were affected by the performance of the university. These various groups were affected by stiff sanctions and a $60 million fine against the
Realizing Ethical Issues Helps You Avoid Unethical Behaviors In this age of change, the human society is progressing rapidly on various fields. However, the ethical problems are becoming increasingly severe. According to the teaching notes of “In It To Win: The Jack Abramoff Story,” “During the Bush Administration, Abramoff was the most influential lobbyist in Washington, D.C. His excesses led to his downfall and that of Congress members with whom he was closely connected, including aides, business associates, government officials, and lawmakers.”
The NCAA is a global, and well-known company that regulates collegiate sports with thousands of universities across the country. The NCAA organizational assessment shows its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats relative to all competitors. In this current market environment, I assessed and prioritize what strengths and weaknesses were most important and which strengths have to continue to grow and what weaknesses needed to be mitigated. It is tough for the NCAA to have great competition due to the fact that it is far beyond any competitions and doesn’t seem to show any sign of slowing down soon. Issues, whether political or ethical, or whatever the case may be, as long as the NCAA continues to analyze its “SWOT” then they will always be the leader in the current market
While many were not aware of Sandusky behavior, however, some were aware of what Sandusky was doing but failed to share the information with the Board of Trustees. The ones that were aware of Sandusky’s behavior was President Spanier, Senior Vice President of Finance and Business, Gary Schultz, the Athletic Director Timothy Curley, and Head Coach of the football team, Joseph Paterno (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan, 2013). They all kept Sandusky’s unethical behavior to themselves, which if they would have spoken up, something could have been
Abstract: Collegiate athletes participating in the two revenue sports (football, men's basketball) sacrifice their time, education, and risk physical harm for their respected programs. The players are controlled by a governing body (NCAA) that dictates when they can show up to work, and when they cannot show up for work. They are restricted from making any substantial financial gains outside of their sports arena. These athletes receive no compensation for their efforts, while others prosper from their abilities. The athletes participating in the two revenue sports of college athletics, football and men's basketball should be compensated for their time, dedication, and work put forth in their respected sports.
Financial aspects and profitability of college athletic programs is one of the most important arguments involved in this controversy. A group of people expresses that college athletic programs are over emphasized. The point they show on the first hand, is that athletic programs are too expensive for community colleges and small universities. Besides, statistics prove that financial aspects of college athletic programs are extremely questionable. It is true that maintenance, and facility costs for athletic programs are significantly high in comparison to academic programs. Therefore, Denhart, Villwock, and Vedder argue that athletic programs drag money away from important academics programs and degrade their quality. According to them, median expenditures per athlete in Football Bowl Subdivision were $65,800 in 2006. And it has shown a 15.6 percent median expenditure increase fro...
Today I went to the Joe Nocera book reading at the UConn Co-op bookstore in Storrs Center. This event focused on his recent best seller “Indentured: The Epic Scandal of the NCAA.” Dr. Joseph Cooper moderated the discussion and posed two main questions for Nocera. The first question was, “What sparked your interest in college sport reform?” Nocera responded simply by exclaiming, “UConn!” He elaborated on this by explaining how the injustice UConn Basketball guard Ryan Boatright experienced over NCAA sanctions early in his career inspired him to stand up to the NCAA. The second question Dr. Cooper posed was, “How do you address the dynamic of power five conferences, College Football Playoff, and March Madness?” For this, Mr. Nocera raised some
However, others argue that these athletes are producing revenues not only for the schools, which gives these students scholarships, but also for shoe companies, television networks, and the conference in which these schools belong. Moreover, the equity problem could obviously be solved if all collegiate...
The purpose of this memo is to provide insight into the July 2012 “Report of the Special Investigative Counsel regarding the actions of the Pennsylvania State University related to the Child Sexual Abuse Committed by Gerald A. Sandusky” which is referred to as the “Freeh Report.” In this memo I will focus on the significant breakdowns in leadership at Penn State and the failure of the board to exercise oversight which created an environment where ethical negligence and misconduct occurred.
Easterbrook’s story gives gaudy and raw statistics as well as inside information that the average fan in remotely unaware of. Even as a die-hard sports fan, there is information that even I was unaware of. Things such as profits, earnings, expenses, and structure in organizations and universities is mind-boggling and can make you rethink who you see the NFL and college football. The amount of money flowing through these organizations is astronomical. The combination of sponsors and donors
The current athletics systems in many large colleges are no longer beneficial to student-athletes or the academic premise the schools were founded under and are in need of intensive restructuring. Ernest Boyer, former president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching said, "I believe that the college sports system is one of the most corrupting and destructive influences on higher education" (1999). In fact, it is widely acknowledged that there is corruption by many college coaches in the areas of recruiting, eligibility, degree progress, and academic integrity of athletes. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), the national governing and accrediting agency for college athletics, possesses the duty of policing such offenses, but it is currently in a position to make huge profits off big-time sports, despite their continued claims of a non-profit status. The NCAA’s inconsistent enforcement of violations, seemingly based on the size of a program, has fueled many questions regarding the appropriateness of their role as a rules enforcement organization. The corruption by coaches and administrators, and academic ineligibility of many athletes has led people to wonder whether the amateur status of Division I athletes is still appropriate.
The short story of “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Conan Doyle relates to the BBC crime drama series Sherlock episode “A Scandal in Belgravia”. BBC crime drama was filmed based on the short story that Conan Doyle wrote. The film and the text is based on a similar concept, but contains different details of information. There are three comparisons that is easily identified such as theme, characters and setting. These differences make the text and the film different.
“Johnny Football” is the latest collegiate athlete to rekindle the fiery debate of paying college stars. The overwhelming majority of students do not get the luxury of having a top university willing to pay for their tuition. Many think, for the elite, the institutions need to go a step further and pay these amateurs based on their performance. Others suggest that the NCAA should have equal pay for all student-athletes. Opening athletes for sponsorship from non-college affiliated businesses is the judicial method of compensating athletes.
When sports become overly commercialized it is not seen as immoral, however, athlete’s, coaches, and sport administrators may let the non moral values of money, success, or fame influence their ethical decisions. In these moments we see a school or organizations true nature of character. According to Practical Ethics in Sport Management, “Principle-centered leaders in sports say the purpose of sport at these levels is to develop character traits such as dedication, sacrifice, responsibility, and group spirit” (Ethics, 216). But we all know this is not always the case. In this paper will discuss four different ethical issues centered around college football as a commercialized sport.
The recent college athletic program that is experiencing negative publicity is the firing of the head coach of the University of Louisville men’s basketball Rick Pitino. In past years there has been several account of misconduct from the student athletes with alleged federal bribery and fraud investigation. These charges lead to the firing of Rick Pitino, who claims that he was unaware of the actions taking place. The University and the president Gregory Postel stated “we listened carefully to what they said, we read carefully everything they gave us, but we felt that our initial decision to begin the process if termination for cause was still in the best interest of the University (NPR.org, 2017).” The type of media coverage is television,
Recently there was a huge scandal in which people lost their jobs, rules were broken, and fans were enraged. This scandal took place in college basketball.