The NCAA and the exploitation of college profit-athletes: An amateurism that never was

Authors

• Richard M. Southall, University of South Carolina
• Mark S. Nagel, University of South Carolina
• Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ithaca College
• Richard T. Karcher, Eastern Michigan University
• Joel G. Maxcy, Drexel University

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2023

Department/School

Health Promotion and Human Performance

Abstract

For the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their labor has been severely restricted. To mask this inequity, the NCAA and its members created, disseminated, and embedded a fictitious "collegiate model of athletics" established and repeatedly modified for the benefit of member schools, designed to ensure profit-athletes were denied employment status and just compensation for their athletic labor. The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was provides a comprehensive historical, sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the reclassification of profit-athletes as employees. Such a reclassification would permit profit-athletes to gain not only fair financial compensation but also equal access to educational benefits that have been promised but systematically denied

Comments

R. Karcher is faculty in EMU's School of Health Promotion and Human Performance.

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Recommended Citation

Maxcy, J. G., Karcher, R. T., Staurowsky, E. J., Nagel, M. S., & Southall, R. M. (2023). The NCAA and the exploitation of college profit-athletes: An amateurism that never was. University of South Carolina Press.