Major news hit the media this past Friday as the NCAA made a huge change to the way money is dealt to college athletes at the highest level. "With all the reforms today and the reforms the Knight Commission has promoted, the NCAA is more aligned to a principle that puts students first and treats student-athletes as students and not professionals," Ms. Perko (Knight Commission executive director that promotes reform for college athletes) said. Athletes may be seeing an advance of 2,000 dollars in spending money added to their scholarship value in some time. However, this caused the NCAA to enact a new Academic Progress Rate (APR) standard. Meaning, students will have to receive higher graders to be eligible to play.
Therefore, there is plenty of debate between schools that are for and against this. University of Connecticut is one school that is already feeling the tension, because if this regulation were passed last year, their basketball team wouldn’t have qualified for the NCAA tournament; which they won. While this news is very supportive of my bias towards college athletes, there still plenty of debate to be had which should delay the process.
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