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The deal features three main parts: (1) nearly $2.8 billion in backpay to former athletes distributed over a 10-year period; (2) a revenue-sharing concept permitting schools to share as much as ...
The March 3, 2014 Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine had a cover story by Paul M. Barrett alleging academic improprieties by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill regarding student-athletes. A basic charge by critics was that UNC did not live up to its end of the bargain by not sufficiently educating some of its student-athletes. [ 2 ]
Athletes commit one in three college sexual assaults. The general population has a conviction rate of 80% for sexual assaults, while the rate for athletes is only 38%. [ 7 ] These statistics were gathered from 107 cases of sexual assault reported at 30 Division I schools between 1991 and 1993. [ 8 ]
The first academic support center for athletes was founded at the University of Iowa State and this was a major problem because top athletes were ill-prepared for college. Academic fraud began to come into the picture after the realization that a large percentage of student-athletes were not academically fit to perform.
1. Alleviate some of the athletes' financial desperation by using new TV revenues to provide athletic scholarships that fully cover each school's cost of attendance.
“There’s no one to put the brakes on them,” says Joel Maxcy, a Drexel University economist who studies college sports. “There’s no one to say, ‘No, this is not a sound investment.’” A Hail Mary. Georgia State, a commuter college located in a largely vacant stretch of downtown Atlanta, had long resisted a move into big-time ...
College is a difficult time for many, and being a college athlete means a particular set of stressors and expectations that can make a difficult time even worse.
Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Doomscrolling can also be defined as the excessive consumption of short-form videos or social media content for an excessive period of time without stopping.