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NCAA Beginning
The National Collegiate Athletic Association started in 1910. In this article, it states, “In 1910, the IAA was renamed the NCAA. Initially, the NCAA was formed to formulate rules that could be applied to the various intercollegiate sports" (Smith, 2000, p.12). The NCAA was formed to bring structure and safety to college sports. -
NCAA Impacting Higher Education
By the 1920s, however, intercollegiate athletics were quickly becoming an integral part of higher education in the United States. Public interest in sports at the intercollegiate level, which had always been high, continued to increase in intensity, particularly as successful and entertaining programs developed, and with increasing access to higher education on the part of students from all segments of society (Smith, 2002, p.13). -
NCAA Higher Education Impact
Sports started becoming global and offering entertainment to public. The world saw college sports as a way to escape the real problems in the world like war and government issues. -
NCAA Leaders
Walter Byers became the Executive Director of the NCAA, and contributed to strengthening the NCAA, and its enforcement division, over the coming years to television (Smith, 2000, p.15). At this time, NCAA is changing and gaining more power in the sports world. The NCAA formed a committee to conduct ways to continue excelling and to make sure the program receives fair treatment. -
NCAA Scholarship Policy
The NCAA provides scholarships to student athletes who have the proper requirements to receive the scholarships.These scholarships made Higher Education possible for students who could not afford the expensive tution at universities, but had athletic talents. -
NCAA Scholarship
In the NCAA guideline, it states, “In 1952 the NCAA legalized the use of athletic scholarships for the purpose of attracting qualified student-athletes to their sports programs.NCAA Divisions I and II schools provide more than $2.9 billion in athletics scholarships annually to more than 150,000 student-athletes. Division III schools do not offer athletics scholarships" (Anonymous, 2017). -
NCAA Split into Division
The NCAA developed three divisions, college based, for sports provided at the universities. Starting with Division 1, the university must sponsor up to seven sports for men’s and seven sports for women. There is a contest and participant requirement for sports such as basketball and football. In Division 1, other sports must play 100 percent of the minimum number of their games against division 1 opponents (Anonymous, 2017). -
NCAA Split into Division
Division 2 institutions must sponsor up to at least five men’s and five women sports. The school can also have four mens sports and six women sports (Anonymous, 2017). The requirement for competition is that the football and men’s and women basketball teams must play up to 50 percent of their games against division two opponents (Anonymous,2017). Division 3 is the last division that NCAA created. Division 3 institutions must sponsor up to five sports for men’s and five for women. -
Requirement to Become NCAA Athlete
The NCAA has requirements for students seeking to receive a Division 1 scholarship from the high school level. The high school athlete must complete four years of English, three years of math (algebra 1 or higher), two years of natural science/physical science (including one year of lab science if the high school offers) (Anonymous, 2017). -
Requirement to become a NCAA athlete
The rest of the requirements are one additional year of English, math or natural/physical science, two years of social science and four additional years of English, math, natural science, foreign language comparative religion or philosophy (Anonymous, 2017). These requirements are set to make students drive to pursue great academics and be rewarded for their actions in other areas besides sports. -
Settlement
Recently, the NCAA lost two disputes that dealt with student athletes. One of the major issues was that the NCAA conducted a video game starring athletes without permission. Many students received settlement checks to fix the problem. NCAA.org stated, "The settlement will award $20 million to certain Division I men’s basketball and Division I Bowl Subdivision football student athletes who attended certain institutions during the years the games were sold" (Rey, 2014, para. 2). -
Current
The NCAA is now in settlement with student-athletes who didn't receive enough financial aid. In this article, Klann states, "The settlement affects approximately 40,000 Division I collegiate athletes who played men’s or women’s basketball, or FBS football between Mar. 5, 2010 and the date of preliminary approval of the settlement, and who received from an NCAA member institution for at least one academic term" (2017, para. 4). -
References
Division I. (n.d.). Retrieved September 17, 2017, from
http://www.ncaa.org/d1 Klann, A. (2017). $208 Million Settlement Approved by Court in NCAA Scholarship Antitrust Class-Action Lawsuit. Hagens Berman. Retrieved September 17, 2017, from https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/ncaa---scholarships-class-action/pressrelease/ncaa-scholarships-class-action-208-million-settlement-approved-by-court-in-ncaa-scholarship-antitrust-class-action-lawsuit. -
References
Lorencz, N. (2016). Should college athletes get paid? Spartans News Room. Retrieved September 17, 2017, from http://news.jrn.msu.edu/2016/12/should-college-athletes-get-paid/ Rodney K. Smith, A Brief History of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Role in Regulating Intercollegiate Athletics, 11 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 9 (2000) http://scholarship.law.marque e.edu/sportslaw/vol11/iss1/5 -
Future
Michigan State Journal states, "For example, a game program including a team’s roster and stats at a football game is sells for about $10. An institution may use a photograph of any of its athletes on the cover, however, none of the players used in the program or on the cover will be paid for the use of their likeness.Their only compensation comes in the form of scholarships" (Lorencz, 2016, para. 3). -
Future
Many believe that the student athletes should receive a tiny percentage of what the university makes off of them. This could become a real problem as the universities continue to make a profit off of the student athletes.