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- Paige C.Springdale, AR196179228562Dec 10, 2023
I'm a big fan of the NCAA. There's nothing better in my opinion than college sports.
The college football playoffs is fixing to change from the top 4 teams to now 12 teams starting next fall.
Plus you got March Madness which is a fun time to watch. For Basketball
College baseball in June is always a great time to watch especially the college World Series.
To me anything college sports is the best.Helpful 67Thanks 15Love this 62Oh no 0 - 4997382270485Dec 10, 2023
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
There's a lot of controversy surrounding this organization. Everyone has an opinion. My thought is that paying college athletes is in the NCAA interest. The athletes would be professional in my mind. My daughter wasn't given a free education and other added benefits. The athletics to me are the same as all the jobs my daughter had to pay for her necessities. You could look at it in that light and say the athletes are doing as their job as long as they are paid the same as the students working in the cafeteria like my daughter did!!
I thought the athletes received an allowance. It is all about money so I think the NCAA will be the winner not the schools or students. Just my thought.......Helpful 24Thanks 2Love this 20Oh no 2 - 3681865154Dec 6, 2023Updated review
The NCAA has just released a proposal that would allow their 1,100 member schools to pay their "student-athletes" direct salaries and remove any cap on the value derived from the school for Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) contracts or the value of their "free" or heavily subsidized tuition. While this appears to be a windfall for the athletes, it's main benefit will largely be confined to the leading conferences attached to football and basketball impacting about 100 schools most directly.
So basically, the dominant institutions within Division 1 athletics will clean up across television, marketing, merchandise and sports book revenue with the remaining Division 1 schools having little hope of attracting or keeping the best recruits with a constantly open transfer portal.
Academics have always been a joke within the elite conferences but now any lip service given to education will be entirely fraudulent as the schools will be minting professional level teams while harvesting all available revenue. All praise to ESPN, CBS, FOX and NBC Universities for making this mockery standard operating procedure. Two sorry stars.Helpful 15Thanks 0Love this 17Oh no 2Nov 28, 2022Previous reviewThe National Collegiate Athletic Association... a "non-profit" professional sports league by any other name, rules over the conduct of play, recruiting and economic distribution issues for the 1,100 member schools that generate nearly $20B in annual revenue (mostly from television rights and marketing partnerships) easily rivaling the NFL, MLB, and NBA in economic dominance while enjoying limited compensation of their so-called "student-athletes" to just their sports scholarships (if any.)
To be fair, all of these schools give very compelling lip service to the enormous investment these contracts allow them to make in their academic programs and the donations that flow to their institutions from sports-crazed alumni - not to mention the inherent character building of sports themselves. Also fair is that tangible proof of these reinvestment claims is much harder to come by.
However, now with the advent of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) opportunities available to the elite players, mostly in football and basketball, the gap in recruiting and quality of play between the prestige schools/conferences and the also-ran Division I and Division II teams will almost certainly widen as the elite conferences extract ever escalating media rights for their games.
Forget the Bowl Games and March Madness, I suspect a New Years Day marathon of these elite players trying to locate their classrooms on ESPN would be far more entertaining - and given the outsized influence of sports betting, far more lucrative for all of these self-anointed guardians of truth and academic integrity.
So, break out your letterman sweater, grab Skylar and Bartholomew and head down to the pep rally for some good clean, monetized fun. Or better yet, torch up ESPN+ or one of the major conference sports networks and lay down a few bets on your smartphone over who's next in the transfer portal. You'll have a blast, the NCAA cartel guarantees it. - Rhonda B.Liberty Lake, WA02Feb 8, 2024
Just wondering if the NCAA is EVER going to do anything about the HIDEOUS officiating in college basketball. I only watch the men's so do not know how it goes with the women and am unable to comment. Maybe the new head of the NCAA needs to watch the Gonzaga/St. Mary's game on February 3, 2024 to get the best understanding of just what is going on, and then tell everyone that you are proud of that. After 26 years of loving college basketbalI, I have stopped watching. I'm pretty sure no one will care, but at least I've said what so many others have in the past. Oh heck, who cares about the fans, they're only the ones that pay to watch the games.
Helpful 0Thanks 0Love this 0Oh no 0 - Jennifer D.SoMa, San Francisco, CA01Oct 23, 2023
I'll change my review when they show they are investing in more referee training and allow JMU a waiver(reason you have it) to play a well deserved post season. It shouldn't be that hard to weigh the pros and cons of how you are affecting the students and NCAA's reputation.
Helpful 0Thanks 0Love this 0Oh no 0 - Jamie C.Indianapolis, IN34Mar 23, 2015
On March 19th, I came to the NCAA Headquarters for orientation for the final four that is coming up. The staff was very friendly and courteous. The place was amazingly clean. The place was designed well and easy to navigate. The memorabilia was awesome! Great experience and a must see in the city of Indianapolis.
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