Reform the Ncaa

Reform the NCAA

While the author makes good arguments against the NCAA to how vicious and incoherent the institution actually is. I personally feel that the NCAA has created this mess themselves and to keep it the way it is going or to eventually pay the so called “student athletes” are both equally up surd. The only way the NCAA can fix this mess is to crack down even harder than is has before as the NCAA has only one building in Indianapolis, Indiana. The NCAA needs to create more buildings in order to have an actual presence at the universities they serve. The NCAA does have people, who stand in at games to monitor the action to catch any wrong doing, but these people are outnumbered one to eighty thousand at games and to expect them to catch anything is laughable at best. If the NCAA really wants to stop athletes getting unnecessary benefits they need to be present at the actual campuses not at their cozy hideaway in Indianapolis.

With all the stats the author uses he makes his article more rhetorically stronger, by shooting out numbers like they’re nothing. The author persuaded me by making me feel that the NCAA is more foolish than before. However, there is no clear conclusion as to exactly what the NCAA should do. At the end the author states, “Just so, the NCAA calls it heinous exploitation to pay college athletes a fair portion of what they earn.” What does that exactly mean? Earlier in the essay the person said that he/she “cringed” at the idea, but what does the final sentence actually mean? That is where the argument loses ground, by not stating what actions should be taken. The author makes more of a point that the NCAA is a hapless organization than anything. The author uses the revenue college athletes make as his main argument for reform against the NCAA and the lawsuit against that if the NCAA should lose that it would turn the entire landscape of college athletics around. The author doesn’t talk about any of the good that the NCAA has done as...