...pieces of evidence were revealed that led the NCAA to believe recruiting sanctions were violated at Southern Methodist University. The substantial evidence relates to an aggressive and illegal recruiting practice that attracted top recruits to attend and play football at SMU. The sequence of evidence abstracted from the University is listed as follows: • 1980: A victory over Texas after a 14 game losing streak between the two schools sparked significant media attention and brought suspicion on SMU's recruiting practice. • 1981: A ten win season and a victory over Arkansas earned SMU the Southwest Conference Championship. • 1981: The departure of Ron Meyer led to national attention that violations were close to being revealed. Bobby Collins was hired as the new head football coach. • Mid 1980's: Sean Stopperich, a former player, claims SMU Boosters moved his family from Pittsburg to Texas, found his father a job, and paid for certain expenses. • Mid 1980's: David Stanley, a former player, claims to receiving payments to play football at SMU. • Mid 1980's: A televised interview revealed handwritten envelopes from SMU’s Athletic Director, Henry Lee Porter, addressed to David Stanley’s home. • Mid 1980's: Bobby Collins, Henry Lee Porter, and the University’s President resigned from the University due to the allegations of NCAA recruiting violations. The evidence presented suggests that a predication of NCAA recruiting violations had occurred at Southern Methodist...
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...that normally average between eighty thousand to one hundred thousand seats. In order to do this there is high competition to get the very best players all around the country and the NCAA has very strict guidelines on what colleges can do to persuade the players to come play there. This isn’t a new problem but with modern technology the problem has become very visible because NCAA officials and competing schools are able to trace the exact moves that teams are doing for the players. Also players are being offered money and benefits that seventeen and eighteen year old kids have never seen before in their life. Penalties are becoming harsher every year and coaches and schools are starting to really suffer but what there is a fine line to walk between cheating and just putting your best effort towards getting the player. Process of Investigating Illegal Recruiting The NCAA has broken the process of investigations down into four different parts. The first part is the actual investigation where the NCAA has received a tip from a credible source about a possible violation. These credible sources are generally either members of the university in question, an opposing university, media member, or individual students that are being recruited by the university. The difference with the NCAA...
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...The NCAA(National Collegiate Athletic Association) is not paying college athletes, which will become a problem sooner or later if the NCAA does not pay college athletes. Many people think that paying college athletes will bring some problems to universities/colleges, such as offering players more money.However it would be unfair for less appealing and wealthy schools because they do not have as much power or money to recruit the best players. Though people do not understand that college football is for stronger players compared to weaker ones. If the players are dedicated to playing for their future, then paying college athletes would prepare them for the NFL(National Football League) and the players who don’t make it still help their team get better. Although most players in college do not make it to the NFL, every player on their teams help win and helps other players get better so everyone should receive a piece of the action....
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...Michael P. Murphy How Recruiting Violations and Academic Misconduct have effectively marred the Amateurism of College Athletics and a Proposal for a Local Solution IDST J497 Professor Timothy C. Williams November 30, 2012 Fall 2012 Recruiting Violations and Academic Misconduct in College Athletics Michael P. Murphy IDST J497 Williams The issues of recruiting violations, academic misconduct, administrative negligence, illegal booster involvement, and a general lack of University oversight are all problems that continue to mar the once highly regarded reputations of academic institutions across America. These transgressions, which occur at shockingly consistent rates around campuses nationwide, (committed by faculty, coaches, players, administrators, and alumni), are effectively compromising the sacred amateurism college athletics has maintained to define its culture and provide credence for its illustrious traditions for over a century. Ethical questions of this magnitude have been pondered by academics and legal stalwarts alike with great depth both at the local and global level for years. Several studies reflect that a substantial percentage of the “major” NCAA recruiting violations and cases of egregious academic misconduct occur typically at institutions where local administrators and financiers have created a “win at all costs” culture pertaining to BCS (Bowl Championship Series) football and the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. A handful of local schools...
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...currently play, all of them once were amateurs. In this perspective, college athletes are not much different from professionals, yet college athletes have never been financially compensated for their efforts in sports. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) prohibits college athletes to be monetarily compensated for their effort. College athletes should be fiscally compensated for a number of reasons. Playing a college sport is like a full time job, except for no financial benefits. A typical 1st division college football player trains approximately 43 hours per week. To put that into perspective, a typical American works 40 hours per week. In addition to the 40+ hours per week of training, college athletes also need to dedicate time to studying. With an intense schedule like this, college athletes are left with no time to make a living. Additionally, NCAA tournament rules often require college athletes to skip classes in favor of nationally televised games that bring in revenue, going to the NCAA, not the athlete who is possibly sacrificing their grades. Based on this alone, college athletes should receive at least some monetary compensation for their time and effort. If college student athletes were to receive salaries, illegal recruiting and under the table payments wouldn’t happen, at least as often. Because players who are not rewarded for their hard work often look elsewhere to a school that offers better “benefits,” colleges are forced to...
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...Anthony Locascio Smith English 2000 21 March 2012 Pay LSU’s student athletes have been participating in intercollegiate sports for over a century, however recently these athletes have helped accomplish something that modern day college athletics has never seen before. A massive revenue producing company has been successfully created at LSU Athletics. College athletes are LSU’s most sought after employees, yet they don’t receive a dime of extra compensation for the millions of dollars LSU receives from their drudgery. LSU’s student athletes, as well as NCAA student athletes around the nation should be paid because they are the direct cause in helping bring in millions of dollars revenue, yet some of the students who help rake in millions cannot afford some of the basic necessities, and paying them may do a lot to help solve the corruption in collegiate sports. During the most recent athletic season starting in 2010 and ending in 2011, LSU’s 20 teams boasted revenue of over $106.4 million according an article on the website The Business of College Sports. The university walked away with a profit of over $10.4 million dollars after using the revenue money to fund the spending of each program including: equipment, travel, coaches’ salaries, etc. Now there are teams that only produce a small amount of profit, if any, for the university, but there are sports such as football and basketball that produce millions of dollars of revenue not only for the school’s athletic department...
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...“Nothing in the collegiate sporting world is guaranteed, and many players thrive on that uncertainty” (Cassavaugh). Athletes can lose scholarship money because of an injury, poor play or misconduct. There has been controversy that student athletes should be paid. How does one determine who should be paid, how much and where does this money come from? Athletes are amateurs who should concentrate on their education. How does one determine if an athlete is an amateur or a professional? An amateur is one who cannot receive money in the form of salaries or endorsements. They play a sport for the love and desire of it. A professional on the other hand gets paid a salary or money for endorsements. Professionals are also more skilled and concentrate one hundred percent on their sport. Amateurs do not have the time to only commit to a sport since they have to attend classes or work to support themselves. If student Athletes did get paid, college sports would lose their competitive hype. Let’s look at football on a college level compared to the pros. Athletes playing on a college level (amateur) give every play their all trying to do whatever it takes to win with hopes of someday be picked to go pro. Pro football players on the other hand, do not give every play one hundred percent. They are afraid of being hurt and know regardless of the game’s outcome they will still get paid. What if the athlete does not make it to the professional level? These student athletes need to make sure...
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...revenues to build both and support a winning football team, and athletics department. And historically colleges rely on ticket sales, game programs, and advertising revenues, to do so. Additionally, coaches’ salary and facility renovations also are factor in terms of colleges and universities needing to generate revenues as well. But before the former can be brought to fruition colleges must first persuade the most talented athletes to their school. What criteria do colleges and universities utilize when recruiting athletes with regard to talent, academics, finances, and student population? Additionally, what perks are colleges and universities offering these athletes to entice them at a minimum to the said front porch? Let’s start by first exploring how colleges and universities generate revenues. First, warning sign (problem) is that billions in annual revenues generated by colleges, universities, conferences and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are in large part derived from rights and fees paid by media conglomerates such as ESPN/ABC, CBS, and Fox for a license that affords the networks the right to broadcast live coverage of the sporting events over television, radio, the internet, and other technological platforms, as well as...
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...------------------------------------------------- MGT 474: NCAA CASE STUDY PROFESSOR: TIM SLAUGHTER February 25, 2016 PAULA OLAZABAL DEL CANTO id: 130024 February 25, 2016 PAULA OLAZABAL DEL CANTO id: 130024 The following Case Study is about the National Collegiate Athletic Association unethical act in the sport college league. How this league creates big amounts of money which is invest in all short of projects rather than take care of the student-athletes. The study case highlight the two main principles issue that the National Collegiate Athletic Association faces; the money how the student are not getting paid and the academic versus sport. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a member-led organization that is in charge of the well-being and lifelong success of college athletes. The NCAA is composed by colleges and universities (1,121), voting athletics conferences (99) and affiliated organizations (39). The NCAA is divided into three different divisions. The subdivisions only apply to football, all the other sports are contemplated as Division 1. The NCAA is a big and famous organization. Since is the organization which manage most of the collegiate sports, it attracts all short of attention from many different groups of individuals such as all kind of sponsors. Although this organization has many lights on it, this do not stop the association to commit unethical practices. Two of the main issues that are face by the NCAA and that are publicly known about is; the...
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...Running head: PROS AND CONS Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes Mark Dunkley PEP 461 Student The College at Brockport Abstract This paper weighs in the pros and cons for the compensation of Division I college student athletes. This paper also introduces a plan that would allow monetary compensation of college athletes in the United States. A survey was distributed to 14 males of the Suny College at Brockport basketball team Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes The exploits of student-athletes in sports have variously been advanced as generating a lot of dollars in forms of revenues for their respective institutions, which has generally raised the question as to why they shouldn’t be compensated for their sporting prowess. Student-athletes generate tens of millions of dollars for their respective athletic departments and ideally then should be reimbursed. However, as per the guidelines of the National Collegiate Athletics Associations (NCAA), athletes are not supposed to receive any commercial use of their personas and likenesses and are indeed not expected to gain any monetary compensation for their sporting engagements. This has generally been interpreted to mean that they cannot enter into agreements for endorsements in their sporting activities as has been the case with professional engagements. Instead, students are expected to benefit from the payment for tuition fees from their sporting activities...
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...Reforming the NCAA In recent times a litany of scandals has brought the corruption of college sports to the forefront of the national discussion. Fans and media commentators express outrage each time it is discovered that a college athlete has been receiving under-the-table payments. These scandals disguise the larger issue however. The true injustice is not that some athletes are being paid but rather that more are not (Branch). Varsity athletics have evolved immensely since their inception in 1869 as a toughening agent to prepare American men for a new era of Darwinian struggle (Branch). College sports have become a lucrative industry, built on a free labor source unavailable in any other business (Palutsis). Yet despite the billions of dollars college athletes generate for their universities, they earn nothing for themselves. The restrictions placed on athletes by the NCAA not only prohibit the payment of a stipend to help cover the cost of attendance but they also prevent student-athletes from marketing themselves, cutting them off from potentially lucrative opportunities. A large proportion of these student-athletes come from low-income families who can barely afford to keep them in school even with the help of an athletic scholarship and to cut these people off from this potential source of income is cruel and unfair. While the NCAA’s commitment to amateurism sounds noble, in reality this could not be further from the truth. I believe that a reform of the NCAA to fit with...
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...Should Student Athletes Receive Stipends Past their Scholarships? Dylan Windom Arkansas State University Intercollegiate athletics has gained a massive amount of popularity over the past few decades. Student-athletes aren’t asking for millions of dollars, they are just asking for enough money to live off of. Television contracts, multi-million dollar coaches, and endorsements are the way to universities and coaches, so it is suitable to provide compensation for the student-athlete who makes these opportunities possible for each university. Proponents of compensating student-athletes for their participation in these revenue-generating sports have been named “pay-for-play” advocates (Haden, 2001, pp.674). “Pay-for-play” brings out the question whether student athletes should receive compensation beyond the tuition, room and board, and books or should they receive zero compensation. The pay-for-play system faces major obstacles such as employment status (workers’ compensation), any federal tax benefits, Title IX, antitrust under the Sherman Act. The first major obstacle that an athlete would face is attaining the employee status. In order for student-athletes to receive additional compensation for their participation in inter-collegiate athletics, they must be recognized as employees of the university (Haden, 2001, pp.674). To follow along with employment status, the pay-for-play advocates encounter additional obstacles in their quest to compensate the...
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...preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used this data, ideas of words, whether quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. Student Signature: Jill Burgess *************************************************************** Instructor’s Grade on Assignment: Instructor’s Comments: Table of Contents Introduction Many students who are currently active players for their university's football team are struggling to make ends meet. They simply don't have the funds to buy new clothes, tools for education, or even food not supplied by the university. To make matters worse, the NCAA has created policies restricting players from pursuing avenues of being compensated for services. These policies make living situations for many of the players very uncomfortable. In business, there are unions who protect employees from abuse and unfair treatment in the workplace. Unfortunately for the players, there isn't any one privatized union representing the best interest of student-athletes. Private interest groups exercise most efforts toward the rights of players, and player...
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...active as track, football, and basketball. This sport can give people courage and can bring out the best in you and it can make you feel great inside and make you want to work together with people and as a team just like any other sport. Teamwork is the dream work. Cheerleaders are commonly seen on the sidelines at football and basketball games supporting their teams. Fans just see them as other people supporting their team. However, the cheerleaders have to go through rigorous training and practice all the time to perfect the routines displayed at games. Along with cheering on the sidelines at games, most cheerleading squads participate in heated competitions to show their athleticism. Although it is not officially defined as a sport by the NCAA, it obviously should be for many different reasons. Dictionary.com defines a sport as "an athletic activity that requires physical prowess or skill and often a competitive nature. Cheerleading is defined as” the action and skill of a cheerleader.” So what is a cheerleader? A cheerleader is’ a person who leads spectators in traditional or formal cheering at a pep rally and athletic events. Cheerleading definitely fulfills this criteria maybe even better than other activities commonly called sports. I interviewed a young lady named Schae who used to cheer for Kenmore High School. She is now a senior and attends a different school. When she cheered for Kenmore she thought that the team was a wonderful team and cheerleading was something...
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...Necessity of an Acceptable Internet Use Policy for Business William E. Boyle Point Park University Abstract This paper will argue that an Acceptable Internet Use Policy, combined with effective network monitoring and policy enforcement is an essential requirement for businesses to protect business assets and resources. It discusses the potential loss to business from employee misuse of internet access and the danger from external sources. Necessity of an Acceptable Internet Use Policy for Business The internet is an integral part of today’s business resources. Organizations, large and small use the internet to improve organizational efficiencies. Businesses use the internet for everything from worldwide sales using websites, workforce collaboration using email and network data access, and for business research. In most business organizations, all types of devices, from desktop computers to cell phones and PDA’s, allow workers to access the internet and send and receive email on demand. A 2008 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 53% of Americans are employed, and 96% of these workers have some access to these tools. (Madden, M. & Jones, S., 2008). This allows workers instant access to websites, email and instant messages, but uncontrolled access exposes a business organization to a great risk of financial loss. All businesses must manage this risk through the implementation of an Internet Use Policy combined with employee education...
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