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This 3 page paper looks at this organization that is essentially a monopoly. Positive and negative effects of the organization is examined. Attention is paid to the players, the colleges and fans.
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college sports" (Barro, 2002, p.22). The NCAA has a great effect on schools, players and the fans as well. It imposes limits in terms of payments to athletes as well
as scholarships (Barro, 2002). In some way, the limitations help to keep things fair. Without the NCAA rules, it would be likely that colleges would pad the pockets of students,
even if they did not have a chance at playing professionally (Barro, 2002). The organization makes sure that there are limits on such things to keep corruption under control. The
NCAA affects fans because everything an organization does as it relates to players will affect the fans. That is the nature of involvement in sport. Some believe that while the
NCAA is a good organization, and does help to level the playing field between rich and poor players, there are limitations that are imposed by the organization that is not
good. This is in fact something with which fans disagree. For example, some believe that the NCAA should be forced to alter its rules in respect to the players being
able to engage in other tournaments. A recent article in Sporting News includes the following statement: " The organization behind the NIT began its lawsuit against the NCAA last week.
Its case suggests the NCAA Tournament represents an illegal monopoly and some NCAA Tournament teams would, if given the choice, play in the NIT" (DeCourcy, 2005, p.73). There are many
restrictions imposed by the NCAA and in fact in 1984, a legal case examined the practice of limiting television viewing. The case NCAA v. Board of Regents, 468 U.S. 85,
102-04 (1984) raised the question of whether or not the organization could fairly impose restrictions on broadcast. One does have to examine the profit motive of NCAA in general. Many
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