...O’Bannon versus NCAA Gita Patel gpatel375@gmail.com Content Introduction…………………………………………………………….page 1 Discussion…………………………………………………………… page 1 - 4 Conclusion……………………………………………………………..page 4 References……………………………………………………………..page 5 O’Bannon versus NCAA Introduction In 2009, former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), alleging that the NCAA had violated antitrust laws (specifically the Sherman Act) by colluding with colleges that participate in NCAA sports. The plaintiffs (Ed O’Bannon and 19 others) claimed that the NCAA had made money off their images in television programs and video games (www.espn.com). In August 2014, a federal judge, Claudia Wilken ruled that “the challenged NCAA rules unreasonably restrain trade in the market for certain educational and athletic opportunities offered by the NCAA Division I schools (www.espn.com).” Wilken proposed that schools set aside a $5000 cap per year for each student participating in NCAA sports. This money would be placed in a trust fund and would be paid out to the student/athlete upon graduation. If the school did not sell anything with the player’s name, image, and or likeness, the student-athlete would not be entitled to the money. Discussion The O’Bannon ruling cited that antitrust law, The Sherman Act, was violated. The Sherman Act was passed in 1890, and was “founded on the basic economic concept of supply and demand. Every...
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...The NCAA recently signed a 14 year, $10.8 billion dollar media rights deal for March Madness. Millions of fans tune in to the biggest collegiate sporting events, while thousands of others buy tickets and attend the games. For decades, the NCAA and its member schools have been making millions of dollars off the work of college athletes, and until recently, the amateur economy of campus sports has gone relatively unchallenged. Even now, the NCAA's rules against allowing players to be paid are supported by a majority of Americans, and many justify this clear injustice by arguing that college athletes are already getting the most valuable compensation possible: a "free" education. 10.8 million dollars for a media right deal might seem like a lot of money, but when you look at the amount of sponsors that are willing to put money into these intercollegiate sports tournaments, it might be understandable. Everything about the NCAA March Madness tournaments is branded. Ads from big companies like Coca Cola, AT&T and HP are constantly played during the broadcasts of the games. And it’s not just the NCAA making a lot of money of off the work of these athletes; also the schools are making exorbitant amounts of money. For one of our case studies we looked at some stats from the Northwestern University. The National Labor Relations Board found that Northwestern’s football team $235 million in revenue between 2003 and 2012. (Pepperman & McDonough, 2014) Another interesting statistic...
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...First name(s) Mohamed George | | IAA Student Registration Number MBA -ITM/0179/T.2013 | | LecturersDr.Titus Tossy and MS Joy Joseph | Module TitleIS/IT STRATEGY | Due date:10th January 2014 | Assignment No. / TitleIS /IT USE AT NCAA | Extensions & late submissions allowed:No | Estimated Time (hrs) | Assignment type:Individual | % of Module Mark50 | Hand out date: 10th January 2014 | Penalties: Marks will be reduced by 10% of the original mark for every week late. No work will be accepted that is more than two weeks | Declaration: I/we the undersigned confirm that I/we have read and agree to abide by the Coventry University and Institute of Accountancy Arusha regulations on plagiarism and cheating. I/we confirm that this piece of work is my/our own. I/we consent to appropriate storage of our work for checking to ensure that there is no plagiarism/ academic cheating.Signature(s): -----------------------------------------------------------Date:-------/-------/2014 | Table of Contents Table of Contents iii Abstract vi Chapter 1 1 1.0 General perspective of Tourism sector in Tanzania 1 1.1 Background Information on Ngorongoro Conserv ation Authority 1 1.1.1 Introduction 1 1.1.2 NCAA Vision 2 1.1.3 NCAA Mission Statement...
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...talents, your name, and your hard work but could you imagine not getting a dime out of it? The NCAA makes billions of dollars off of their college athletes, making deals with CBS and other TV networks. This has started a controversy for the NCAA because the athletes get nothing out of the NCAA’s pocket, except maybe a scholarship. The NCAA’s way of handling money and not giving any share of it to their athletes has caused plenty of controversy. (“Paying College Athletes: Should the National Athletic Association (NCAA) pay college athletes?”) states, “The NCAA’s financial success has become controversial, however. Because the NCAA considers itself an amateur organization, it does not...
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...Table of Contents 1 The Ethical Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes 3 1.1 The Case For Maintaining the Current System - Not Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 4 1.2 The Case For Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 6 1.3 Conclusion 11 1.4 References 13 The Ethical Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes Top college football programs make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues each year, all without having to pay the people who actually play the game. Is it ethical for colleges to not pay their football stars for playing their hearts out on the field, building popular branding images for themselves and their school, and for the collective big-money earnings and prestige that often comes to their schools? Or is indirect payment to these players in the form of a free undergraduate education and college degree through an athletic scholarship sufficient enough? In the 2012 NFL season, 1,947 players played in at least one game. Of those, 62% attended college at one of the five “power conferences” in the U.S., and only one of those players did not attend college at all.[i] Donald Remy, the NCAA chief legal officer has said, “The NCAA’s rules do not force athletes who wish to be professionals to enroll in school,”[ii] yet premier NCAA schools clearly offer the best path to fulfilling these hopeful football players’ dreams. Nevertheless, despite the more opportunistic path of attending a Division...
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...Pat Summit once said, “But to us, orange is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves, I just met them halfway” (Jenkins & Summitt, 2013). The importance of a player and coach relationship in the athletes’ athletic and academic objectives is exemplified in this quote. Countless student-athletes begin their careers with aspirations of becoming professionals, and desire a coach who will help them achieve this goal. Disregarding student athletes’ aspirations, in a recent NCAA report, only 19.1 percent of men’s basketball players play professionally, with only 1.1 percent of those playing in the National Basketball...
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...To: Mike Smith, Supervisor From: Max Christ, McKenzie Botcher, Alivia Roscoe Date: January 30, 2013 Subject: How to Respond to the NCAA Baseball Bat Standards Complaints Overview Template Table Below we have created a table with responses to the letters. We have organized it by: the complaints, responses, and sources to where we have found our information. Arguments in the letter | Potential responses | Research backing the responses | How could you risk my son's life by not changing the standards for bats immediately when your tests showed that a player cannot react quickly enough to avoid a ball batted by one of these high tech bats? The NCAA should be ashamed. I am writing my congressman. | The NCAA has already attempted to change the standards a year ago, but ultimately the company would be sued by one of our top manufacturers (Easton), which directed the company to limit the performance of all composite bats. Also, the miles per hour from an average hit off of a composite bat are 93.3mph whereas for a wooden bat, the power of the bat generates an average of 86.1mph. Although this statistic was provided by Brown University and was set forth over a decade ago, the standards have been drastically been shaped to allow for much safer composite bats than in previous years. | | What are the results of your research in the area of bat technology?I saw a show on Fox Sports Net in the Spring that made some claims that not only are batted balls faster than ever...
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...also cause injuries to players and, occasionally, spectators. The technology of baseball bats has greatly evolved over the years, allowing players to hit baseballs further, harder, and easier than ever before. During the 2011 college baseball season, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) put a rule into effect that requires college baseball teams to use a new type of metal bat that has affects similar to those of wood bats. Between faster developing technology and players using old metal bats, which gave a trampoline type effect when a ball hit them, the game of baseball was looking dangerous. The NCAA was forced to change their rules regarding bats used during the game. The new rule that requires teams to use the new bats, which act more as a wood bat, has a positive effect on the game. NCAA baseball has become one of college’s top sports. Fans from across the country travel to Omaha, Nebraska every summer to attend the College World Series in hope that their team may win a national title. This year, college baseball has put a rule in effect that may change the game forever. The Collegiate Baseball Newspaper states that this rule requires all bats used by NCAA baseball teams to be under a certain bat-ball coefficient of restitution, also known as BBCOR. The BBCOR is essentially what gives bats the “trampoline effect” and causes a ball to be hit harder. The “trampoline effect” gives players using the traditional metal bat an advantage because when the ball...
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...Will Biller Playoff Proposal: To Pass or Not To Pass In the never-ending discussion of a playoff system replacing the Bowl Championship Series poll in NCAA football, a controversial issue has been that universities are not acquiring their full amount of profit with the BCS. This long debated issue has many fans and analysts angry because they believe their input on the topic is the correct counsel. While some argue that the playoff system would be an outstanding opportunity for universities to show their true talent against higher ranked teams or the BCS has the potential to raise the greatest amount of revenue, others contend neither system should contend for the way to conclude a regular season of college football. Promoting the thought that a playoff system is an incredible step for NCAA football in his article, “Playoff, Please,” Phil Taylor inserts his theory that college football will thrive on its new system of determining national champions. Taylor is adamant about the concept of enforcing a new postseason system that he believes it will change the name of college football in an astonishing way. He believes that allowing universities to participate in a playoff system could potentially be “the best thing that has happened to college football” (Taylor 5). Taylor prefers the playoff system because he believes smaller universities do not get a fair shot at winning a national title. He ensures the BCS “favors prestigious football teams”, even if win records...
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...Edgar Galvan NCAA as a Monopoly After over a century of existence, the National Collegiate Athletic Association stands today as a multi-million dollar organization, one of the largest and most successful organizations in the nation. The NCAA is in charge of overlooking every college athletic competition in the United States. Every year millions of fans watch NCAA organized games and follow the top prospects of every sport. However, all schools and players involved with the NCAA are obligated to follow a strict set of rules to be eligible to compete at the college level. The NCAA holds college athletes specifically to a very strict set of rules. Under the NCAA all athletes are considered amateurs. The term amateur is used to describe a person or group of people who participate in any form of activity for their own pleasure or entertainment, often distant from those who participate in the same activity for a financial benefit. They NCAA uses the term amateurs to distinguish college athletes from professional athletes. The official NCAA website states that “Maintaining amateurism is crucial to preserving an academic environment in which acquiring a quality education is the first priority”(“Amateurism”). They believe that by labeling them as amateurs they set them apart as student-athletes and everything that the students do for their own respective sport is part of extracurricular activities they are taking a part of. Their website emphasizes this point and declare, “In the collegiate...
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... is out of control.” -Roger Noll, Economics Professor Emeritus, Stanford The whole purpose in researching this topic was based on the fact that the researcher is a fan of college sports, football and basketball especially. As the researcher has grown into adulthood and come to understand that with most things in life, it’s all about business in some form or fashion. So with that being said, as in any business situation, laborers get paid for revenue they work to produce. “The NCAA's current men's basketball tournament agreement with CBS and Turner is worth an average of more than $770 million per year, and the current Bowl Championship Series television deal – money that goes to conferences and then is distributed to schools, with no NCAA involvement – is worth $180 million per year. The new college football playoff, which starts in the 2014 season, will be worth about $470 million annually to the conferences.” (Cohen & Russo, 2013) This is money that is created through the blood, sweat, and tears of the athletes. On multiple occasions, the researcher has participated in and listened to many arguments on how a scholarship is equal enough payment for student-athletes. The researcher has always found that theory to have a multitude of flaws though, and that’s mainly because common knowledge tends to show that things are not always as they seem. This is explained by the fact that most ‘4-year’ scholarships are actually revocable, so in essence, athletes can actually be ‘fired’...
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...the draft back in 2006. The question everyone is left with “Is this really to the player’s benefit?” An argument at hand is that the NCAA will argue this case from an academic standpoint. The NCAA would suggest that this rule will make the athletes well equipped by getting rid of freshman eligibility and allowing them to focus on their studies for a full year. When in actuality they will be trying to manipulate these athletes without any type of reward for them in return. The opposing argument would say that college is not for everyone. People as a whole would love to get a higher degree but some do not have the same will and drive as others. The NCAA wants to force school upon athletes with these types of rules knowing there’s no guarantee that they would take it seriously. In conclusion, the “one and done” from the NCAA standpoint will further the athlete education while getting them ready for the NBA draft. While attending college the students will become better athlete along with becoming a better scholar. On the other hand school is not for everyone. There are some athletes who are born with pure talent where they can enter the draft but due to not attending college they will never get a chance. The only reason they will attend college is only for the sole fact they need one year under the belt knowing they do not have the will power or desire to further their...
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...Running head: White Collar Crimes in Basketball White Collar Crimes in Basketball By Willis Blake Jamie Orejan Saint Leo University MBA 510 9-26-08 One of the largest NCAA money fraud schemes in NCAA basketball history occurred in Atlanta, GA on December 2005. A report filed with a federal court in Texas regarding the investment scam indicates that nearly $6 million in assets were connected to Horizon Establishment. In December, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed an emergency action in federal district court against Travis Correll & CO Inc. Most of the NCAA violators were coaches, players, and sports agents. These three SEC basketball colleagues were my friends. I worked side by side with Travis Correll in many of the Division II SEC Basketball games across the Southeast Region. The Southern Conference fired Travis Corell in the shakeup stemming from allegations of a multimillion-dollar investment fraud scheme. John Guthrie, the SEC Supervisor of Basketball Officials for more than two decades, was fired for unspecified reasons the day Correll resigned. The NCAA also released referee Jason McNeil that same afternoon. Correll’s firing in December stemmed from the Securities and Exchange Commission filling suit in Texas alleging he and others sold interests in purported foreign and international bank deposit programs promising risk-free returns of 4 percent to 12 percent. Travis Correll got this idea from Charles Ponzi who duped thousands of New...
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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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...Frank Perri College Reading and Writing 16 February 2010 Television’s Influence on College Football Due to the growing and changing landscape of college sports there have been questions raised about the integrity of academics above athletics. This is a very large issue within college football programs. College football coaches and athletic directors are getting paid more then college presidents and chancellors (“Television’s Impact on College Sports”), football revenues for individual schools have peaked at over $87 million (Fish), and networks are requesting that big time college football games be played on Thursday nights for prime-time viewing. College professors and the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics are strongly opposed to the control that television networks have over college football. The belief that academic integrity is a higher priority is an argument that has been fighting a losing battle to network dollars. Big football market universities make a lot of money from major contracts with television networks. In a recent episode of ESPN’s Outside the Lines it stated that the Big Ten football conference makes $242 million average annual income from television revenue (“Television’s Impact on College Sports”). That’s not pocket change. A $242 million dollar payday to split between the eleven schools in the Big Ten for merely letting CBS, FOX, ESPN, etc., come in and record their schools football games? That can’t be right. Unfortunately, it’s not right, there...
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