Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Shame of College Sports post



As the college sports ambassador, the article Professor Papoulis posted a few days ago pertaining to “The Shame of College Sports" was directly related.
“The tragedy at the heart of college sports is not that some college athletes are getting paid, but that more of them are not”, Taylor Branch wrote. Between the NCAA and the Knight Foundation, (a nonprofit that deals with civic concerns in the NCAA) a great deal of debate is circling around the question whether college athletes under scholarship should make money.
In support of the Knight Foundation, Branch wrote, “Don Curtis, a UNC trustee, told me that impoverished football players cannot afford movie tickets or bus fare home. Curtis is a rarity among those in higher education today, in that he dares to violate the signal taboo: “I think we should pay these guys something.”” I not only agree with Curtis’ statement but also think it is only fair that they make at least a small amount of money to get by. Especially considering the hundreds of millions of dollars that many big time college sports teams profit each year because of their unpaid labor.
The Knight foundation has worked for 20 years to reform the NCAA’s noble principles of “amateurism” and “student-athlete” but only minute changes have taken place. They expect a major overhaul to come after they take the issue to congress.

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