NCAA
College athletics is something that will always be a issue among higher education. The financial benefits can be astounding, when looking at a program or institution there are no institutions that are innocent, there are just the ones who have not been caught. There are many people that weigh in on the subject but nothing really gets done to improve the situation. For the hundreds of division one teams in the united states, there are only 9 compliance officers to enforce the guidelines. Financial corruption is something that will always be part of collegiate sports.
A review of the NCAA's own database of major violations finds that over the previous 10 years, 53 of the 120 institutions that now compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision broke major NCAA rules. That is one fewer than the 54 that committed major violations in the 1990s, according to the NCAA database, although the total number of cases in the 2000s -- 65 -- was actually one higher than in the 1990s.
That's because 11 institutions had two major infractions cases during the decade: Ball State University, California State University at Fresno, Florida International University, Texas Christian University, and the Universities of Alabama, Arkansas at Fayetteville, Colorado at Boulder, Michigan, Oklahoma, Southern California, and Washington.
While critics often complain that the NCAA picks on less-prominent sports programs and goes easy on the highest-profile institutions, the results from the 2000s don't necessarily back that up. More universities in the Big Ten Conference (eight) were punished for major violations than in any other league, followed by seven in the Big 12 and Southeastern Conferences and six in the Pacific-10 Conferences, all of which are among the six leagues in the Bowl Championship Series that are typically seen as college sports' biggest players.
The notion that we should pay college athletes has been in discussion for years, and it can attach itself to any related event involving college sports. The trouble is that, while college athletics does need reform, paying players asserts no relationship to the targeted goal of helping protect college athletes. The abuses in college athletics – and they are real – stem from the growing pressure of market forces. Institutionalizing those ethics would almost certainly make all those abuses worse. That’s why the constantly expressed demand that we put college athletes on professional salary is so ill-formed in our opinion. It is not so much a plan as an expression of free-floating contempt for college sports.
That's because 11 institutions had two major infractions cases during the decade: Ball State University, California State University at Fresno, Florida International University, Texas Christian University, and the Universities of Alabama, Arkansas at Fayetteville, Colorado at Boulder, Michigan, Oklahoma, Southern California, and Washington.
While critics often complain that the NCAA picks on less-prominent sports programs and goes easy on the highest-profile institutions, the results from the 2000s don't necessarily back that up. More universities in the Big Ten Conference (eight) were punished for major violations than in any other league, followed by seven in the Big 12 and Southeastern Conferences and six in the Pacific-10 Conferences, all of which are among the six leagues in the Bowl Championship Series that are typically seen as college sports' biggest players.
The notion that we should pay college athletes has been in discussion for years, and it can attach itself to any related event involving college sports. The trouble is that, while college athletics does need reform, paying players asserts no relationship to the targeted goal of helping protect college athletes. The abuses in college athletics – and they are real – stem from the growing pressure of market forces. Institutionalizing those ethics would almost certainly make all those abuses worse. That’s why the constantly expressed demand that we put college athletes on professional salary is so ill-formed in our opinion. It is not so much a plan as an expression of free-floating contempt for college sports.
