After this, various issues arose with the start of World War II. Post season football games were held with little control and many other schools were becoming members of the NCAA. It was clear that the NCAA needed to be a full-time entity in order to properly oversee its memberships. In 1952, the national headquarters was established in Kansas City, Missouri ("National Collegiate Athletic Association," n.d.). Once the NCAA was established, the colleges had a solid platform to build upon their money-making teams and the NCAA came to own all rights to the student's names. .
Money and sports today are almost synonymous with each other. This is because people generally love sports of all kinds and, like anything people love, it sends profit through the roof. According to a chart on USA Today (n.d.), the top college football revenue for this year was the University of Texas with a profit of 18,883,901. Along with this statistic, Baumbach (2014) reports, "The nation's 25 highest-paid college football coaches at public universities are paid an average of $3.85 million a year in guaranteed money -- more than the $3 million Jets coach Rex Ryan earned last year" (para.1). This is a far cry from the days when coaches were volunteers and had full-time jobs outside of the universities. Usually, it was a professor who stepped in as coach just to help the kids out. Times have changed however, and in the last 30 years college football coaches' salaries have risen 500% and basketball coaches' salaries have risen 400%. Meanwhile, full-time professors have only risen 30% according to Zimbalist (2010). As evidence shows, pay has significantly increased in the college athletics industry throughout the last 30 years. Coaches have gone from being volunteers (who were there only for pure enjoyment) to negotiating their own contracts and competing for the best pay. If the NCAA can afford to pay College coaches record salaries year after year, then why is it out of the question to pay the players some of that money? .