What does sports have to offer colleges that offsets this tradeoff? ... A college that has a good sports program is more likely to have positive enrollment. Sports are like additional advertising for the college. ... What would be lost by unlinking big time sports with Colleges? ... If a team were to do well, for example make the final four in hockey, the NCAA gives the program bonus funds that would help support the team next year. ...

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The NCAA is composed of over 1,000 sport playing schools (Nebraska, 2003, p.1). Colleges provide over 360,000 student-athletes in the NCAA (Bianchi, 2001, p.1). ... CBS spent over $6 billion dollars to secure the NCAA men's college basketball tournament (Bagnato, 2001, p.1). ... This would make those four sports superior to all other sports. ... College sports have survived over 100 years by losing young stars early to professional sports. ...

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Many colleges are lowering their academic standards in order to recruit new athletes and to maintain their previous athletes eligible to play for the various sports that their schools offer. ... An internal committee has found at least 12 violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; who's trustees were publicly rebuked for their sports policies on last month by the state's governor (Lederman 412). There were 12 NCAA violations found in these two colleges alone, and these are not the only colleges that are not p...

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Since the beginning of college sports, athletes have not been financially rewarded for their efforts. ... The money that colleges and universities acquire from ticket sales alone, exceed that of many professional sports leagues in the United States. ... Although bribes, cash and gift of this sort are prohibited, by NCAA rules colleges sometimes resort to these measures to persuade top performing athletes to stay. ... Even though some say that the scholarships are enough, paying players would cut out the illegal contact between recruiters, agents, boosters, and players, and eliminate an already...

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