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With millions of dollars in merchandising and television contracts at stake, colleges have a lot of money riding on the recruitment, education, and performance—both on and off the field-- of college athletes. ... In order for athletes to be eligible to play in college they must attain a minimum of a 2. ... In an article written for The New Republic in May 1986, Malcolm Gladwell criticizes Proposition 48 and the effects it will have on college sports. ... There are many cases of college athletes violating the law and someone looking the other way. There has never been a better example of widespread athletics corruption than the University of Minnesota. ... This is a person who is not even in the athletics’ department. ... So what can be done to end the insanity that college athletics has become? ... Wyatt, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and explained in his article Our Moral Duty to Clean Up College Athletics has been forwarded to the NCAA and is now under review. These regulations are simple, if an athlete does not leave a college in good academic standing, the college would lose a scholarship spot until the date the departed athlete would have graduated (A56). ... If the state of athletics is improved morally, the academic gains will come. ... It is the institutions that exploit these athletes, luring them to college with gifts and then not providing. ... Thirty-seven percent of scholarship athletes graduate college. ... In closing, I feel that it is the institutions, not the athletes who need to be held more responsible for cheating and cover-ups in order to clean up college athletics.
Approximate Word count = 1980
Approximate Pages = 7.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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