What is the NCAA?

[ColumbusHawk]

The NCAA is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 tax exempt, member operated, organization.

Do not ***** & scream about the NCAA. The NCAA cannot do anything without member approval. E-mailing the NCAA is a waste of time. If you do not like the 96-team format, complain to Sally Mason and Gary Barta.

The NCAA is not some great god in the sky that dictates to the schools. Nothing happens without member approval.

So do not criticize the NCAA, just rip Mason and Barta.

 

[gohawkz]

Anyone responsible for going to 96 teams is a poopyhead.

This sucks.

 

[GodGodGodBathia]

wow...I'm crossing this off the list of things I thought I'd never see...

"NCAA advocate"

 

[tiggerhawk]

The NCAA is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 tax exempt, member operated, organization.

Do not ***** & scream about the NCAA. The NCAA cannot do anything without member approval. E-mailing the NCAA is a waste of time. If you do not like the 96-team format, complain to Sally Mason and Gary Barta.

The NCAA is not some great god in the sky that dictates to the schools. Nothing happens without member approval.

So do not criticize the NCAA, just rip Mason and Barta.

Hawkeye fans should remember that the original home & headquarters of the NCAA was the 3rd floor of the University of Iowa Field House (it moved to its own building in Shawnee Mission, KS, outside Kansas City, in the early 1950s. Then a few years ago relocated to Indianapolis.

The first three Executive Directors, heading the NCAA its first sixty plus years until the mid-1990s, were graduates of the U of Iowa, two of them from the U of Iowa Athletic Dept. For most of its existence the upper echelons of the NCAA were staffed heavily by people from the U of Iowa (not to mention that many of the senior administrators had lived in Iowa City all those years before the move to Kansas).

The Iowa connections, enhanced by the U of Iowa College of Education origins of the ACT (The American Testing Service, located in Iowa City), led to the close ties of the NCAA with the ACT, including contracting with ACT to design, create and administer its Center for Determining Eligibility (the NCAA recently took over administraton of the cnter, moved it to its headquarters in Indianapolis).

Without a doubt no other NCAA member school has been as influential or played as a prominent role in the NCAA as the U of Iowa--and this had ineviatble fallout implications for Iowa's strong role in the Big Ten--whose Exec Directors also came out of Iowa until Delaney was hired out of the ACC in the late 1980s.

 

[tm3308]

The NCAA is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 tax exempt, member operated, organization.

Do not ***** & scream about the NCAA. The NCAA cannot do anything without member approval. E-mailing the NCAA is a waste of time. If you do not like the 96-team format, complain to Sally Mason and Gary Barta.

The NCAA is not some great god in the sky that dictates to the schools. Nothing happens without member approval.

So do not criticize the NCAA, just rip Mason and Barta.

The NCAA is a money-grubbing organization. Whether it's member-operated or not doesn't change that, because the universities are money-grubbers.

There are SOOO many ways that schools make money off of their student athletes, and those student athletes are given (maybe) a scholarship in return.

Take Iowa for example. I'm pretty sure that out-of-state tuition is like $28,000. If every member of the Iowa football team (125 players; 85 scholarship, 40 walk-ons) was given a $28,000 scholarship, it comes out to $3.5 million. The university makes about that much just from ticket sales for ONE HOME GAME. Then you've six other home games, so another $21 million there. Plus concessions/program sales. Yeah, that sounds fair, doesn't it?

And that's not even the part that really gets my goat. That would be how players can't make any money based on their names or athletic ability. Yet the NCAA, with it's marketing contract with EA Sports, makes MILLIONS with the sales of NCAA Football and NCAA March Madness. The players in those games wear the same numbers, play the same positions, and have the same abilities as the real-life student athletes. Yet those student athletes can make a nickel off of those games.

And how about those jerseys that so many people like to buy? I doubt all those #5 Iowa jerseys were intended to be Ryan Donahue jerseys. Big shock that they were produced during Drew Tate's time here, and then production stopped once he graduated. But since his name wasn't on the back, he wasn't entitled to any money. Again, how is that fair? Only Nike, the store that sold the jersey, and the university get to put their hands in the cookie jar. But not the guy who actually makes the product desirable.

Don't tell me that the NCAA is a non-profit organization. All it is is an organization that looks to make as much money for its members, and keep it's athletes poor as dirt. Compared to the millions made in ticket, concession/program, video game, and apparel sales, a $28,000 is fair compensation, don't you think?