The Ball and Chain: Why The NCAA

Be The term, student jockstrap is a polarizing one. In todays America, college sports particularly football game and basketball, are as much a part of the sports enthusiasts landscape as is any professional sport. In any case, with enthusiasm comes money. In this case, billions of dollars are generated by television viewership, merchandise sales and university boosters. College jockstraps are the driving force behind an industry where television executives, university presidents, athletic directors and coaches are compensated in a elan which makes them among the most wealthy eople in the world.The athletes receive in return an education from a well respected university, along with name and sometimes facial course credit in their fields of interest. However, the student on a physics learnedness receives the same opportunity for education and name recognition in his field that the athlete does. The difference is, the physics student isnt selling millions of dollars worth of Jerse ys. The physics student is also allowed to pursue compensation for applying his craft as he sees fit plot of ground enrolled at the university while the athlete is not allowed to work or ven accept perks brought about by his celebrity.The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) serves as the autocratic monopoly which seeks to capitalize on the dreams of young athletes by requiring their servitude, likeness and name in exchange for the slimmest of opportunities to attract employment in their field of interest. Like any another(prenominal) oppressor or monopoly that came before it, the NCAA should be abolished and replaced with a model that is mindful of equality, as well as human and civil rights.The NCAA has blocked every road that an athlete may have to apitalize on his hard work during his time at his respective university. Only recently has the legality of such roadblocks been challenged. Due to its litany of regulations designed to knee player movement or compensatio n, many, such as Pulitzer prize winning author and historian Taylor Branch, have argued that the current structure of the NCAA rivals that of a slave grove or drug cartel.Branch scoffs at the correlation between the terms student athlete and incompetent, stating in an article in The Atlantic, No legal definition of amateur exists, and any attempt to create one in nforceable law would expose its repulsive and unconstitutional nature a bill of attainder, stripping from college athletes the rights of American citizenship. (Branch 2). At the heart of that argument is the question, what constitutes an employee? Blacks Law dictionary defines employee as a person in the service of another under any contract of hire, expressed or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control or direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed (Muhl 2). An athletic scholarship is clear example of a ritten contract which both overtly and implic itly stipulates that the school is willing to exchange an education for the athletes services on the schools sports team.