Beer And Circus

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ondarily as an opportunity for an education.
• NCAA passed a rule limiting “a student-athlete’s participation” in his or her sport “to a maximum of four hours per day and twenty hours per week.”
• However, in 1999, the NCAA four-and-twenty rule was abandoned because it was obeyed so little.
• Joe Abunasser, a former NCAA Division I assistant basketball coach, commented: “The irony of the entire organization (the NCAA) is that its proclaimed intention is to regulate and reform college athletics, when in reality it is the cause of the corruption.”
• The almighty dollar is what propels the NCAA corruption as seen in the past and still to this day.

Chapter 3: pg.33-44 The NCAA, The Tube, and The Fans
• An athletic director at an Ohio college defined the motivation of the men directing big-time intercollegiate athletics: “There are three definitions….Greed, greed, and greed.”
• The NCAA functions mainly as a trade association between coaches and athletic directors.
• In the early 1980’s corporate spons...