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NCAA Foreign Policy Helps Domestic Issues
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The Delicate Balance of Amateurism and Education
Both Jay Bilas in his call for the NCAA to reform itself (subscription req’d) and John Gasaway in his article on amateurism in the NCAA (purchase req’d) argue for the same thing. Ignore all the fluff...
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What Would Paying Student-Athletes Look Like?
One of the troubles with the debate over whether college athletes should be paid is that both sides have a moving target. Proponents of NCAA amateurism have many arguments to throw at the idea of paid...
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Draft Rules Fail Basics of Amateurism
Two things that happened over the past month have been dismissed as something of throwaway lines, but should have gotten more attention. First was the term coined or at least restated by NCAA President...
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The Deal
At its heart, the NCAA is a voluntary enterprise. Schools voluntary decide to join it and select their level of competition and regulation. Coaches and administrators choose to be employed by NCAA...
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NCAA Rules That Could Have Been
The NCAA Division I Manual takes a lot of criticism for being a large and unwieldy beast full of esoteric and confusing rules. The size is a bit overstated, and much more complicated legal codes can be...
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Fixing the Basketball Draft Process
In the life of an elite athlete, from the beginning of a youth career until the end of a professional career, there are a number of transitions. There’s the transition from disorganized play to...
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NCPA Presents Good Question, Hints At More Radical Change
The struggle over whether to pay college athletes is relatively simple. Or at least, it is compared to the struggle over what to pay college athletes. Proposals to allow a greater degree of...
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Different Country, Same Questions
One of the biggest recent successes of the NCAA is that the message is finally getting across that there is no such thing as “The NCAA”. There is an organization headquartered in Indianapolis with...
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