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Corruption in Collegiate Athletics Collegiate athletics in the United States, in particular N.C.A.A. (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Division I basketball and football, have become one of the most prominent forms of sports entertainment today. Like their professional counterparts, the economic stability of many university and college sports programs relies on the success of its teams. As a result, coaches and team officials have been subject to a great deal of criticism, as many have been using improper methods to recruit athletes for their teams. In the past half century, the NCAA, an amateur organization, has been no stranger to its share of corruption and scandal. The NCAA's constitution states that "An amateur sportsman is one who engages in sports for the physical, mental or social benefits he derives therefrom, and to whom the sport is an avocation. Any college athlete who takes pay for participation in athletics does not meet this definition of amateurism." (!from In Praise of 'Student-Athletes': the NCAA is Haunted by its past, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 8 1999) In addition to athletic scholarships, statistics have shown that nearly 50% of college athletes have themselves - or know of - athl
ers to give him ten thousand dollars cash as a 'thank you' for helping lead his team to a national championship, but with real hopes for retribution a few years down the road. Jesus casually refuses the money, and walks out of his coach's office. Jesus also discovers that his girlfriend, whom he loved, was simply a hired assistant of a big-time sports agent hoping to land Shuttlesworth as a new client. The agent with whom she attempts to set up the young star, offers Jesus a valuable watch as incentive to sign a contract to enter the National Basketball Association draft immediately after graduating from high school. Despite all of the corrupt activity around him, and the temptation he must feel, Jesus is the only one able to stay focused and overlook the money that would eventually be his. Aside from these influences that Jesus is exposed to, he is also feeling a great deal of his pressure from his father to enrol at Big State University. His father was informed by the Warden! y 8 1999) More recently, Mike Rozier, a winner of the prestigious Heisman Trophy, the award given annually to the best college football player in the United States, estimated that he received 1,200 letters while playing football for the Cornhuskers at the University of Nebraska. He commented that: "most of the letters came from people I had never heard of, and who did not know me, or want to know me. All they wanted was to line their pockets with the money that I would soon earn in professional football." (from Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes, pages 14-16) Most college athletes find agents during their years in college, and generally keep the same agent when they become professionals. Agents, who are aware that it is illegal to
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